By Buzz Byrne
The Teams get shuffled, yet AGAIN. Thanks to Neil screwing around with the water gorging a couple of weeks ago, the producers are desperate to let the scales determine the winner and not the underhanded game play. It’s understandable; you want to root for these people who are rebuilding their lives through rebuilding their bodies. I’m already looking forward to the day Neil gets booted. His shenanigans sent Jez home early and kept less motivated players like Nicole and Ryan. It’s silly too, all this reshuffling, as the contestants train with the same people anyway.
Since it is “Green Week” on NBC, Looney Trainer Jillian got to lecture her team on the importance of buying and eating organic foods. You’ll be happy to know her nostrils flare with the same dragon like passion when it comes to organic produce as it does when she talks of “kicking ass”. So with the spirit of reality TV saving the planet, THE BIGGEST LOSER did its part and turned off the electricity to the treadmills. As if these people don’t have it tough enough, now they had to run…outside! It was a lot like ROCKY IV, where the Russian is pumped full of chemicals and trains on stainless steel equipment and Balboa goes to Siberia and carries logs around. Eye of the flabby tiger, baby!
Jennie-O turkey and Subway were the featured products of placement this week. Trainer Bob lied to America and said a turkey burger was just as good as a regular burger. I eat ground turkey. I use it in place of most beef. There is no way you can say a turkey burger is as good as a big fat, flame grilled, 80/20 ground sirloin house burger. It just doesn’t taste as good and we shouldn’t lie about such things…Bob!
The reward challenge rolled in the green theme as the players had to carry as many empty cans of soda as they could to the “recycling center” in thirty minutes. The prize was a hybrid SUV for each person on the winning team. Julie told a sob story about being a stay at home mom and the only way it was financially possible was by selling a vehicle. She gave up freedom, she sobbed. I don’t know when sacrificing for your children became reason to blubber all over the place but personally I think Julie should suck it up.
Of course Julie and Bill won and now she is a free flying stay at home mom. Yippee.
Bryan, the last member of the Red team was having a problem with his diet. It wasn’t that he was eating too much; he was eating too little for Trainer Kim’s liking. She wants him fueling up six times a day. I know you have to readjust a metabolism so out of whack but six times?? I guess we finally know the dirty little secret of why Kim never beats Bob.
For the weigh-in, former adversaries Kae and Amy escaped the elimination room. Hollie and Bryan made the cut as did Neil and Nicole and new vehicle owners Bill and Julie. Ryan and Isabeau had the lowest percentage of weight loss and when the teams voted, Ryan was sent home to his wife and four month old daughter. He explained to his family that it wasn’t so much about changing eating or exercise habits but changing his mentality. Ryan lost 109 pounds since his involvement with the show. Great job, Ryan, that’s pretty motivated.