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Dr. Phil, The Ultimate Weight Loss Solution, Part 4, February 18, 2009.  The show started off with Dr. Phil looking into the camera while stating that there was a right way and a wrong way to lose weight.  He went on to state that losing weight would require a lifestyle change and not a diet. He also stated that there were 7 keys to weight loss and then gave a quick sales plug for his book The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom .  If you want to know the 7 keys then you better buy the book because he really did not touch on them during the show.  The players of the show were then re-introduced and it all seemed like a novice knock-off of the television show The Biggest Loser.

As all of the teams were paraded in front of the camera they all were assigned colors just like The Biggest Loser.  There was the Pink Team and the Purple Team and the Yellow, Orange, Green and Blue Teams.  There was a sort of a challenge in the Dallas Cowboys stadium with the contestants running up and down the field throwing weights and picking them up and then sprinting with a football.  Daryl Johnston even made an appearance and spoke about team work.  The Blue Team won the challenge and received some type of body suit and a year supply of gas from a major gas company.

There was then a very quick parade of players onto a scale and they were weighed, evaluated and done in the blink of an eye.  It all happened so fast that we almost got dizzy trying to keep up.  We really could not tell you who lost the most weight since it all happened so fast.  I wish they would have spent more time discussing the weight players lost than they did on the next scene where everyone was arguing about really mundane issues.  That part of the show rambled on and on till the point it was almost painful.

Everyone then went into a van and to a farm where they was a challenge to move hay bales from one side of a field to another.  The winning team would receive immunity…..which seemed very similar to The Biggest Loser show. Kim Lyonsfrom The Biggest Loser early seasons also came onto the screen and said something that was also uttered so fast it was not absorbed for the purpose of retelling it here.  Blue Team won the hay bale competition.

Dr. Phil then made another pre-recorded studio segment and uttered more really “canned” weight loss phrases like “Losing weight is not a sprint, it is like a marathon”.  Okay, okay, okay……We here really did not enjoy the show.  It looked and felt like a really unpolished, quick knock-off version of The Biggest Loser.  The scenes were splashed across the screen too fast and we could never identify with the characters and as a result there was no real bonding to the show.  Dr. Phil really was not involved with the players other than wearing a suit in the studio and never was really present in the day to day making of the show.

This show was a huge disappointment and really made a few of us wish we could just watch The Biggest Loser.  This Dr. Phil show appeared to be a poorly assembled, quick montage of events that were strung together in a fashion that was a format too similar to The Biggest Loser.  Most of us here were bored to death and one even fell asleep.  Better luck next episode Dr. Phil.

Oh, and by the way, The Blue Team may have won immunity but it did not matter because Dr. Phil allegedly called earlier that day and canceled the elimination.  Nobody was sent home from The Dr. Phil Show that aired on February 18, 2009.