Biggest Loser Tv Show - Current Season

[raebates]

Does the furry guy know this??

Yes, he does. It's one of the many secrets to our happy marriage.

 

[babywings76]

I'm so embarrassed to confess this...This is totally going to sound like a stupid whine and a lame excuse, but I can't exercise while watching TV because I have to see the show, not just hear it and every time I exercise I have to focus and watch what I'm doing to be effective and then miss stuff (plus we watch from the DVR so we FF commercials and I can't do that while exercising. Our eliptical machine is in the basement and we need to have someone come fix it, it's not working right. Our TV is a big screen TV that is hard to watch unless you are sitting at eye level. I swear...I'm not making this up! I was just thinking today about looking into getting some type of exercise bike, that would work in our TV room. I could definitely do that while watching TV! (Any recommendations on types of stationary/spinning bikes?)

 

[raebates]

Sorry. Mine's a garage sale special. It's adjustable and I get my heart rate up while I sweat. That's all I require.

 

[esavvymom]

What's Bob's blog address?

He has a site now. You have to register to read it all, but it's free to do. It's interesting to read his take on things.

www.mytrainerbob.com

 

[raebates]

Help! I fell asleep just before they announced what the big twist was going to be for the weigh-in. So I don't know what the twist was, who lost big, or who was sent home.Can someone help a girl out?TIA!

 

[chefann]

Was it on tonight? I was watching ANTM. But last night, the twist was that they weren't weighing them against eachother. Each person was weighed individually, but if they lost more than 77 pounds as a group for the week (that's 7 pounds each), then nobody would have to leave. If they didn't meet that, then 1 person from each team would have to go. PLUS, for each pound lost (whether they met the challenge or not), the show would donate 100 pounds of food to Feeding America.It got down to the last person (the son, whose name I keep forgetting), and he would have to have lost 9 (or 12, I can't remember) pounds for them to have met the challenge. Then it ended.

 

[esavvymom]

It was Mike (the youngest contestant)...and if he lost 10 lbs. they were safe. If it was just 9, it would put them right at the 77lbs...Allison kept saying he had to lose MORE than 9 lbs (more than 77)....so..the drama continues .

 

[raebates]

Ah, thanks.No, Ann, it wasn't on tonight. I kept thinking I'd find the info online, but I couldn't find a recap anywhere. I don't watch videos online because my dial-up takes forever to download. I sure hope Mike did it. I was so proud of him when he gave away the year of groceries to the mom of 5. What a neat young man.

 

[raebates]

I will say that one of the most annoying things about The Biggest Loser (and reality shows in general) is the manufactured suspense. On Biggest Loser it's the way the scale bounces around to random weights before displaying the contestants' weight. It's also the way they show one or two people's results, then cut away to commercial just before the next person's weight is revealed. Of course, that's complete with the flashes to thee shocked expressions of either the other contestants or the trainers.Like I said--annoying.

 

[chefann]

That's DH's biggest gripe with the show, too. When we had it on Tuesday, he commented that they could do the weigh-in in 15 minutes or less. Hulu has episodes online, Rae, but they don't post right away and they're only up for a limited time.

 

[babywings76]

That's one thing that just drives me nuts...the drawn out weight results. Well, I guess the thing about it that really annoys me is when you get back from the commercial break and they repeat the last 30 seconds or whatever. As if I don't remember what's going on?! Plus how they won't show the weight and they'll show someone looked devastated or shocked in a bad way, only to have them come back and show that it was a good outcome and no one had those reactions they showed earlier. I hate the way it's edited.By the way, Rae, I ended up going out with DH and we bought an upright bike. I love it! It's absolutely silent so it's nice to use it while we watch tv! Of course we've all been sick since we got it last Friday, so I've only used it once (during TBL)

 

[poohritz]

anybody else notice that it seems like 1 segment is a comercial? one time it is cereal, and the next it is ziploc bags. or frozen birds eye veggies or extra gum. shameless plugs all over the place.

 

[KellyTheChef]

anybody else notice that it seems like 1 segment is a comercial? one time it is cereal, and the next it is ziploc bags. or frozen birds eye veggies or extra gum. shameless plugs all over the place.

I think that bugs me almost more than the scale taking 6 minutes to register their weight! lol

I know the first time it happened, I was all excited and hoping that the trainer was really going to TEACH them something about preparing healthy foods, not pitch a particular product for them to BUY!


I think Mike lost his 10#'s. If he didn't, they could have just ended the show knowing 2 were going home and making us wonder WHO was going home. I still can't believe the show ended like that!

 

[babywings76]

anybody else notice that it seems like 1 segment is a comercial? one time it is cereal, and the next it is ziploc bags. or frozen birds eye veggies or extra gum. shameless plugs all over the place.

Those just crack me up. If you notice, there is a particular background music played. So every time I hear that, I say to DH "Here comes the infomercial". It's really quite funny. It reminds me of "The Truman Show" where his wife would all of a sudden point out a product and do a plug. Funny.

 

[chefann]

Yeah, the obvious product placements are annoying. It's one thing to have a box of Ziploc bags in every shot in the kitchen. It's something else to have one of the trainers start talking about them as if they're some sort of food storage expert.

 

[raebates]

Thanks, Ann. Even though I gripe a bit about it, I have decent dial-up service. Still, it takes too long for me to download video. In addition to being cheap and lazy, I'm impatient.

 

[pcchefjane]

I could not believe it when I watched the DVR today. We have figured out the pattern on the weigh-ins... Weigh one and give results, weigh 2nd person and go to commercial! LOL! I was so not happy about that! I think Mike lost too... Poor guy! I can't imagine he could blame himself if he didn't lose 10 pounds! There was some others that could have done better. The only good thing is that Laura would probably be the one to go home. She is such a Drama Queen and almost worse than Joelle!

 

[Lisa/ChefBear]

Oh, I forgot about this link on CS.....I need to know, what did Mike to do help the one sister, who's got the 5 kids??

I keep seeing the previews and while I was sitting at our Elem. School, freezing my butt off, (as they turn heat off at 3:30) I was complaining to other PTO officer, you know for this I'm missing Biggest Loser!!! We did good in sales, but UGH, I missed more than the first hour.

Of course, had to stop by McD's and grab a meal and Shramrock Shake to come home and watch the rest of Biggest Loser. :blushing:

So what did he do, and what the heck happened to the "teams"??? I missed something major.

Lisa

 

[chefann]

Oh, I forgot about this link on CS.....I need to know, what did Mike to do help the one sister, who's got the 5 kids??
<snip>
So what did he do, and what the heck happened to the "teams"??? I missed something major.

In the challenge, each member of the winning team won groceries for a year. Mike gave his to the other contestant.

The Teams switched up last week.

 

[pcchefjane]

That young man is a class act! I really wouldn't mind seeing him win! Did you notice almost all of the contestants have lost over 80 pounds and some over 90 and a couple over 100! This is a heck of a season! Did you hear than Dane LIED about completing that marathon with his wife? He didn't complete it but she did. The "crossing the finish line together" was faked...

 

[chefann]

I saw that on the Today show. He stressed that he did go back and run the 3 miles that the producers drove him. They wanted a shot of him crossing the finish line and he was running at a slow pace that would have put him at the finish after it was closed. So the producers drove him 3 miles to put him at the finish while it was still open.

 

[raebates]

This is not a spoiler.

Jillian just offered one of the Biggest Loser Tips. If you love mashed potatoes, eat mashed cauliflower instead. Yeah, right. There is no way on God's green earth that mashed cauliflower has the same taste as mashed potatoes. Nuh uh. Nope. I don't believe it for a second. Seriously. Mashed cauliflower? Yuck.

 

[raebates]

I'm generally watching while doing something else, so I don't necessarily see the opening to remind myself how big some of them were in the beginning. They've all done so well. I'm kind of proud of them.

 

[pcsharon1]

This is not a spoiler.

Jillian just offered one of the Biggest Loser Tips. If you love mashed potatoes, eat mashed cauliflower instead. Yeah, right. There is no way on God's green earth that mashed cauliflower has the same taste as mashed potatoes. Nuh uh. Nope. I don't believe it for a second. Seriously. Mashed cauliflower? Yuck.

Actually mashed cauliflower is really good! But if you don't think you can take it - mainly because it smells different - do half cauliflower and half mashed potatoes.

 

[chefann]

It probably tastes more like mashed potatoes when you add cheese, sour cream and bacon bits.But that would blow the whole point of eating cauliflower instead of potatoes, wouldn't it?

 

[raebates]

I don't like cauliflower at all. It smells nasty to me whether cooked or raw. It's not gonna happen at my house.

 

[raebates]

It probably tastes more like mashed potatoes when you add cheese, sour cream and bacon bits.

But that would blow the whole point of eating cauliflower instead of potatoes, wouldn't it?

Every day there's one more thing to add to the long list of reasons I love you. :love:

 

[raebates]

Actually mashed cauliflower is really good! But if you don't think you can take it - mainly because it smells different - do half cauliflower and half mashed potatoes.

Snarky comments aside, I do appreciate your info, Sharon.

 

[raebates]

I'd say that the black team learned their lesson last week. Seeing the results of falling off the wagon seems to have been a wake-up call.

 

[itsjustCarla]

Anyone else really NOT liking Tara???

I was sooooo happy last week when she lost NOTHING after their little binge trip.... and then when Helen ate the cookie that cost Tara $10,000!!!! Omg!!! He needed it worse than she did anyway. LOL