There was a Biggest Loser competition once between military wives.
It wasn't a regular season, but kind of a special shorter series, and one of the female contestants had had a gastric bypass.
That was several years ago.
(Unless I'm totally not remembering that right-LOL!!)
Yep, I remember it now too. I think it was one of the white navy officer wives. She had eaten around her WLS as well. It didn't seem to unfairly put her ahead - I remember she struggled big time and sweat it out just like everyone else. Thanks for bringing that up again.
I just wonder how difficult will it be for Mike to continue at home? Will he be able to maintain his healthy habits?
I think he will...I am hoping he wins it all!!! I think he and his dad will go home and TOTALLY motivate the other son!!! I think the finale will be outstanding!!
On another note...I'M A HELEN HATER!!!! She is so annoying. And the fact that she sent her daughter home was ridiculous!!! I would do ANYTHING for my kids whether they wanted me to or not....Mom knows best, no matter what age their kids are!!! I think her weight loss is great but she's an idiot!!!
ugh, I'm sick of Ron. I hated when he told the yellow team girl (I cant remember her name right now) it was "her time to leave" I wish they would have voted him off long ago. And i hated how he had Mike do his dirty work. He wanted Kristen gone, he should have had the guts to vote her off too.
ugh, I'm sick of Ron. I hated when he told the yellow team girl (I cant remember her name right now) it was "her time to leave" I wish they would have voted him off long ago. And i hated how he had Mike do his dirty work. He wanted Kristen gone, he should have had the guts to vote her off too.
I'm team Tara But I also do like Mike.
If you're talking about Aubrey, I'm right with you. He said she "needed to go home and take care of her dad." Well, I think if that's the case, RON needs to go home and take care of his son, who's a minor and still under the care of Ron and his wife...even MORE than Aubrey needed to "take care of her dad."
If you're talking about Aubrey, I'm right with you. He said she "needed to go home and take care of her dad." Well, I think if that's the case, RON needs to go home and take care of his son, who's a minor and still under the care of Ron and his wife...even MORE than Aubrey needed to "take care of her dad."
I Agree!!! I do sort of like Ron but only because he is Mike's Dad, but he seems to know exactly what is best for everybody. Give me a break!!!
I don't particularly like some of the things that Ron has said and done but I consider Kristin (and Kathy) his accomplice(s). If Ron is Vito Corleone, then Kristin is Michael Corleone because she willingly helped him. It annoyed me when she called Mike a coward for eliminating a supposedly bigger threat in herself when she did exactly the same thing to Dane, Mandi and Aubrey, when she said she had an alliance with Ron & her mom to keep Bob's original people together, and she also was threatened by them both individually and collectively. When Filipe asked Kristin if she would vote out Ron (ostensibly over Sione or himself), she wouldn't answer him. Kristin rode the alliance with Ron for as long as she could because it was to her benefit. She wanted to make it to the end, too, and, for a while, she was part of a trio that helped to get her closer to that end. She didn't ally with Ron to help Mike, she did it to help herself.
I do want either Tara or Mike to win. I think they are both likeable and they have both worked very hard. Tara gets a lot of kudos from me for having done it without the benefit of any real alliances and with the majority of the others gunning for her and even sabotaging her. Laura's one vote wouldn't have saved her if she'd gone below the yellow line. It's ironic that the person she now considers herself closest to, Helen, is the same one that cost her the half-marathon victory and who's been a not particularly nice rival. I see a sort of need/hate (not even love/hate) between them. I could see Helen taking Tara out at an earlier point if she had been given the opportunity. But lately they have been the "odd women out." The others (Kristin, Felipe, Mike, Ron) all had at least one other person, if not more helping them, plus their previous alliances from being on Bob's team. Helen and Tara have been kind of forced to unite to survive.
And Mike, for all the gameplay by his father, has been the biggest loser on campus in the history of the show. Ron didn't lose Mike's weight for him. That kid worked hard. And despite his youth and being male, he struggled with some of the challenges because he was overweight for most of his life and hasn't been used to being that active. He even seems to walk like he's still big. This has been life-altering for him, regardless of his father's motives.
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Helen can go away and I will be so happy! The woman is annoying. Whine whine whine. 'Do ya think?' I think the woman has no brain. I am happy about her WL and she looks great but grrr. I only hopes she helps her daughter when she gets home instead of being so dang selfish.
Ron - just shut up. That is all I want. If he didn't talk he would almost seem like a good human outside the fact he tried to kill himslef and his whole family with food.
Tara and Mike to the end. I think bottom line is that the stronger and most determined of the two will win. They both have come so far. It sure is neat to see. Mike sure has turned into a cutie. That jacket really made him look hot!
That is sad. I've often thought that the level of exercise on TBL borders on exercise bulimia- where you exercise excessively to lose/not gain. I've also read that contestants have fasted before the final weigh ins. I worry that others will go from one type of eating disorder (binge-eating or compulsive over-eating) to another (anorexia or bulimia). As a former binge eater, and childhood anorexic, I don't wish either on anyone.
If you're talking about Aubrey, I'm right with you. He said she "needed to go home and take care of her dad." Well, I think if that's the case, RON needs to go home and take care of his son, who's a minor and still under the care of Ron and his wife...even MORE than Aubrey needed to "take care of her dad."
Yes Aubrey! Thank you! Ugh, that just pissed me off. And then when they voted Dane off - that pissed me off when they then proceeded to complain about losing all the team events after that - well you just voted off your strongest players, what you expect?
And I totally agree that he needed to go home and take care of his son, more than Aubrey needed to take care of her Dad. I'd like to see how her Dad is still doing. If he's continued to lose weight or not.
I like Tara - and I liked how she won that car pulling event, even after they all added the pounds to her car.
But I also do like Mike.
