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The Biggest Loser episode that aired on January 26 2010 started off with scenes of the players walking in the ranch from last weeks vote.  Mike was sad because his Mom was gone and then John asked him if he was going to step it up this week.  John told America that it was going to be a tough week because everyone was going to watch him.  Allison appeared and said for the first time ever during a pop challenge the winner would have immunity.  There were 3 envelopes and to see what was in them they had to win the challenge.  To win the challenge the players had to run the presidential mile, which was a loop around the ranch.  Every lap they get a key-card and that key-card will either give them and “X” or a green check mark from a machine that looked like an ATM.  The first one to get 3 checks would win.  Pink, Red, Brown and Yellow were the first to get a check.  Then The Pink Team had the 2nd check which put them ahead.  Mike went 4 laps and did not have any checks and he was getting upset.  The Pink Team then got a red “X” and the results started to pile up with no clear winner in sight.  Stephanie went 9 laps and did not get any points.  Mike made a strong comeback and got a 2nd point.  On lap 7 The Pink Team got anotherred “X” and then the Red Team aslo got another “x” and it went on and on until the winner was revealed to be The Red Team, and they had immunity. 

Allison then took the 3 large blue envelopes and in them there were things to be done to other players. The first card was “no access to gym”  while the second card was “no elimination vote” and the 3rd card said 2 pound disadvantage.  They had to give the cards to any players of their choice and it could all go to one team or 3 teams.  The Red Team players said they did not like the burden, but it had to be done.  The choices of the envelopes were to give John no access to the gym because he had a knee issue and he would use the pool.  John said he was okay with that.  They then went to Michael and said he would receive the card for “no elimination vote” because of the hurtful things said last week.  They gave him the card to give his emotions a chance to recover.  The third card which was a 2 pound DIS-advantage was given The Green Team.  Miggy flipped out and would not allow them The Red Team to explain.  Lance explained anyway and said that they gave The Green Team the 2 pound disadvantage because they had a great week last week and expected them to bounce back with good numbers this week.  The Green Team was not happy.  Miggy told America that if they had the power, they would have handed all 3 envelopes to The Red Team
 
The next scene the players were in the gym and Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels walked in and said “where’s Bob?”  Melissa stated they had immunity once again and Jillian put her head in her hands in disgust.  Lance explained why they gave out the cards the way they did.  Miggy chimed in that the reason was not true because they did not have the good numbers.  Bob said he had to talk to The Red Team about their weigh in and there was a flash back to the yelling at last weeks weigh in.  Melissa told America that last week Bob attacked her and she would hold a grudge forever.  Melissa said that she was being accused of being a liar and then Melissa said she was not a liar.  Bob told America that he was 99% sure it was game play and then said that he had 1% doubt.  Lance said that he lost respect that night Bob verbally attacked Melissa but now he had some respect for Bob since he came out and spoke to them.  Bob told America that he was ready to move on and get going and that Jillian would have a harder time with this than he did.

The players went outside to exercise and Lance was separated from the workout because of his knee issue.  Jillian then cornered Lance and said that Melissa was telling a lie.  Lance resented it all and said his wife was not telling a lie.  Lance said she was not a liar and then Jillian said she was and she knew she was. Lance then said he lost all respect for Jillian and then walked away and said he would have nothing to do with her and would not work with her.  Jillian said “such is life” and walked away and the camera went to a commercial.

Jillian walked over to Bob Harper training the players outside and said to Bob loudly in front of everyone that Lance walked away and that Jillian knew Melissa was a liar.  Jillian said it quite loud so all the players heard what was going on.  Jillian said that The Red Team was Bob’s because they won’t work with her anymore.   Bob had a look of horror on his face as he realized how Jillian was talking about Melissa so loudly. Jillian then said that she needed one person from each team to do boxing training.  Bob told Melissa to go with Jillian and then grabbed her and shook her wishing her good luck.  Melissa walked up to Jillian to box and then told Melissa that she was not welcome to train with her.  Jillian said that she knew the science of weight loss.  Jillian said that there was no way Melissa was telling the truth and thus “Melissa was a liar”.  Jillian said that Melissa was a liar and that was that.  Melissa pleaded that she was not telling a lie.  Jillian said she was not refusing her help, she was just refusing to believe her.  Jillian held her ground and said you can work with me and if you want or you can go with Bob.  Jillian told America that she had no doubt that Melissa was telling a lie.

The next scene Lance and Melissa were in their bed talking about how to get past the issue.  Melissa told Lance that they had to put all the stuff behind them and work with Jillian.  There was then a commercial and after the commercial Jillian was in the kitchen and there was a commercial for another product.  This was one of those TIVO proof commercials.  After all of the commercials we were at a dock and there were ropes that went really high and Allison came out in a yellow hard hat.  Allison told them they had to get in a cage and lift themselves up 120 feet in the air.  The reward was a phone call home and also they could choose three other teams to call home also.  The Green Team said thay had to win because they knew The Red Team would never pick them.  They were in a cage that held each team.  There was a pull up bar that had to be pulled down and that downward motion is what lifted the cage with the two players up a very short distance.  All the players were struggling and all of them spoke of how much harder it was to do it than they thought it was going to be.  Gray Team was winning with The Red Team close behind. It appeared as if the other teams already had given up swince they were so far behind.    All of a sudden The Red Team kicked it into warp speed and almost won.  The Gray Team won by about one second and the privilege to phone home.  All of a sudden KOli started to cry because he was so happy to call home.  They then chose who would be allowed to call home and they chose The Red Team and then Melissa broke out in tears because they were so happy.  The second team was The Green Team and Miggy walked up to hug them and Migdalia said thanks, but was not emotional at all.  The third team allowed to join in on the call home was John because he was by himself and he needed the contact with his family.
 
The show returned from the commercial break with the recap and then we saw all the players make their phone call home and the tears were flowing and the stories were tearful and it was just heart warning to hear the stories that were told.  Sam spoke of how great it was to hear his father tell him he loved him in his adult life.  John cried as he heard young child.  John said he was their because of his family as his Dad died when he was 15 and he did not want to do that to his famishe wanted to go home.  Lance and Melissa spoke to their two children and then we saw Miggy have a conversation with his family and said she may be home sooner than they thought. She told America once she heard his voice she wanted to go home.  Migdalia then heard her families voice and she started to cry and told America he was a soldier adn he was deploying to Afghanistan and she would not get to see him before he goes.  It was sad to see.

Bob then took the entire house to a Subway restaurant and the built in commercial and started to talk about a surprise last chance workout.  Bob told them they had to run to the top of the hill.  Mike said it was not a hill, it wasw a mountain.  John was happy since he got to workout with everyone even though he was not allowed into the gym.   Bob pushed yelled and chided from behind as the players were going up to ther top of the hill.  Jillian was at the top of the hill and said it was not the end, but it was only the start.   Bob told Jillian to “kill em” and the paces became faster as Jillian made all of the players lift, run and push wheelbarrows.  Jillia told America she normally did not like the outdoors, but since she could torture people she liked it.  The players were soaking wet with sweat and Koli had to push Sam up the hill in the wheelbarrow.  Sam kept flipping out of the wheelbarrow and Jillian told them it was alright because it was impossible.  Sam and Koli decided that they were going to do it and tried again and again until the made it to the top of the hilll in the wheelbarrow.

After the commercialthe weigh in began with Miggy whining about how the 2 pound disadvantage .  Miggy told Allison that Melissa was all about game play from the start.  John was told that since he was the only player on his team, if he was below the yellow line, he would just go home.  The first team to weight in was the Red Team.  The results from the weigh in were as follows:

Red Team: Melissa 214 /203  lost 11 pounds / Lance 324/ 318 lost 6 pounds. 17 pounds team total.  3.16%
White Team:  Michael: 471 / 456 lost 15 pounds. 3.18%
Black Team: Andrea 272 / 267  lost 5 pounds. Darrell 361 / 351 lost 10 pounds.  15 pounds team total.  2.37%
Gray Team: Sam 334 /320 lost 14 pounds.  Koli 353 / 341 lost 12 pounds. 26 pounds team total.  3.78%
Orange Team:Cheryl 203 / 197  lost 6  pounds. / Daris 301/ 295  lost 6 pounds. 12 pounds team total.  2.38%
Pink Team: Ashley 333 / 326  lost 7 pounds.  / Sherry 190/ 186  lost 4 pounds. 11 pounds team total.  2.10%
Brown Team: John: 437 / 427 lost 10 pounds.  2.29%
Purple Team:  Stephanie 236 / 230 lost 6 pounds. 2.54%
Green Team:  Migdalia 237 / 233 lost 4 pounds. Miggy 212 / 211 lost 1 pound.  5 pounds team total. .67%

Once the Green Team walked off the scael Melissa from The Red Team said that the 2 pound disadvantage did not matter and then Migdalia told Melissa to “shut up”.  Jillian put her head in her hands.  It was a rough portion of the weigh in.  Miggy told her daughter to not let them see you cry.  Jillian then stressed out because of the way the mother told Migdalia to never show emotion.  Jillian yelled at Bob that that was the problem.  It was obvious that Miggy and Migdalia have anger issues wrapped up with the lack to show emotions. 

When the time started to plead their case, Migdalia said “I want to go home, That’s it!”  Melissa told the house that the drama of the house was coming from Miggy.  The vote then started and it went as follows:

Red Team:Voted to send home Miggy
Orange Team:  Voted to send home Migdalia
Pink Team:Voted to send home Migdalia
Purple Team:Stephanie voted to send home Migdalia
Gray Team: Voted to send home Miggy 
Brown Team:John voted to send home Miggy
Black Team:Voted to send home Migdalia

The player voted off of The Biggest Loser on Jan 26 2010 and was sent home was Migdalia.

The Biggest Loser Transformation Moment started with Migdalia telling America that she was happy with herself.  She said she did not leave a pat on the shoulder and told America the next time we saw her see would weigh 140 pounds.   The next moment we saw her and she weighed 219 pounds.  She told America how hard it was for her husband to be away while she was home.  She was shown exercising and how she loved herself again and how she no longer was ashamed to see herself in the mirror.  It ended with the caption that she plans on running a marathon with her husband.

The show then ended.

The Biggest Loser Recap / Review January 19 2010: This episode started off like any other episode but you could tell this was going to be a good show.    This episode started with a brief recap of the previous episodes.  It focused on the two teams that left the ranch the very first week.  They started the show with a check in of the two teams starting with players talking about how they had 30 days to get the weight off.  The Blue Team told America how The Yellow Team was their competition to lose weight and then the show shifted to O’Neal and his daughter of The Yellow Team.  He told America over and over about how he would get back on the Ranch.

Soon we were on The Biggest Loser Ranch with all of the teams walking out to a challenge.  Allison said it was Student Teacher week on The Biggest Loser.  The players were all told that the students would not see Bob and Jillian until the weigh in.  Allison said that at the weigh in the student would be the only ones that the weight would matter at the weigh in.  Each team had to have a student and a teacher.  The student would work under the trainer and that trainer would be the team-mate.  Only the trainer players were allowed to train with Bob and Jillian.  The trainer players had to go train their partners they way Bob and Jillian instructed.  Bob and Jillian would not see the students for the entire week.

The challenge was composed of a massive quantity of what appeared to be M&M’s.  Each one was 5 calories and the winner would be the one that ate the most of them.  Only two people ate any, with one being the White Team Mike and The Pink Team Cheryl.  The Pink Team won the challenge and then had all of the power to decide who would be the teacher and who would be the student for each team for the rest of the week.  Once she realized she held the power she was full of regret and wished they did not play.

She chose the following:

Black Team: Teacher= Andrea / Student = Darrell
Mixed Team: Teacher = Stephanie / Student = John
Gray Team:Sam = Teacher / Koli – Student
Red Team: Melissa = Teacher / Lance = Student
Orange Team:Cheryl = Teacher / Daris = Student
Green Team:Migdalia = Teacher / Miggy = Student
White Team: Michael = Teacher / Maria = Student
Pink Team:  Sherry = Teacher / Monica = Student

The weight of the student was going to be the only weight that counted during the week of training.  Bob and Jillian then met with the teachers and not the students.  Bob was amazed that she won the challenge because she only ate 10 calories.  Bob then cornered Migdalia in front of the group asking her why she was angry.  Bob said to America that she was so upset and Bob told Jillian she had an anger issue that Jillian had a chip on her shoulder.  Bob and Jillian said that her anger was going to alienate her from the rest of the group.

After the commercial the show resumed with Bob and jillian in the gym with only the teachers.  They were going to give instruction one on one so they will be able to take that information back to their students.  Bob and Jillian gave alot of information such as how intense the treadmill needed to be and how often to eat. Jillian then said that Migdalia had an anger issue and approached her to see why she was so angry and shut down.  Jillian told America that her anger was the trigger that got her overweight in the first place.  Jillian then started to beat the crap out of her and kept asking her why she was having issues.  Jillian had little patience and sent her to the bathroom to pee.  Bob told Jillian that she shut herself down and that she had excuses galore.  Jillian told Bob she was afraid she would just walk out.  Bob and her agreed that it was time for Jillian to get mean.

Jillian then started to say fat mother and fat daughter and asked her if the grand daughter was going to be fat.  Jillian asked her if her daughter cried and then Migdalia said she did not need to cry.  Jillian said ”why did God give us the emotion if we did not need it?”   The anger started to simmer and Jillian kept drilling with the emotions and the workout.  Jillian kept yelling and screaming and digging into her emotions and that she needed to use her feelings and emotions and learn to express herself.  Jillian kept going and going and digging and asking her why she was pissed and why did she come to the ranch?  Jillian asked her over and over why she let herself get so unhealthy?   Jllian said she had a choice that she needed to open herself up and see the process of how she got to the Biggest loser Ranch.  Jillian asked he if she was happy and Migdalia walked out of the gym with Jillian in tow asking her why she was so unhappy.  Migdalia kept walking off into the grass field pushing Jillian out of the way and telling Jillian to “move, move, move”.

Jillian pleaded with her to not quit and said this was the moment to be strong.  Quitting would be leaving and not dealing with her feelings.  Jillian said her feelings are what got her to the ranch and then Migdalia said “I want to go home!”  Jillian stopped the Mom and said that she had to stop her daughter from leaving the ranch.  Jillian said that Miggy should not validate her daughter’s excuse to leave the ranch because the giving up was a pattern in her life that got her on the ranch.  Jillian pleaded with mother Miggy to break the daughters pattern and run away from ranch.  Jillian pleaded with Miggy to help her daughter deal with the issues. 

Mother Miggy went into the bedroom with Migdalia and closed the door.  The Spanish started to fly and the subtitles told the non=spanish speaking portion of the audience that  Migadalia was upset because her 9 year old daughter was going to be overweight also and that she wasw a bad mother.  Jillian was then at the pool with Bob Harper and that she was afraid that she really was quitting the ranch.  Bob took off jogging to see what happened with Migdalia.  The curses were flying and Bob told her that she had to get her head on straight and her job was not done.  He said she needed to cool off and get her head on straight.  Migdalia looked like she could spit nails and then Miggy said that she was not here to change their personalities. 

Bob took offense to that and then he went politically correct and sort of side stepped the entire issue of Miggy saying Jillian told her she was a bad mother. ……………Being just an observer, we here at I Choose Thin thought the drama was over flowing from Miggy and Migdalia.  Jillian never said anything that was even remote to them being bad parents or mothers.  Miggy and daughter went off the deep end and whew!   The whole thing reminded us of insane customers that you meet while working in retail.  We thought that Miggy and Migdalia needed to get over themselves and start to deal with the anger that they have boiling inside themselves.

We were soon back watching the sent home Blue Team walking into a 24Hour Fitness center.  Vickie and Cherita were telling America how they had not tried spin classes and once they did they loved it and realized it was not that bad.  O’Neal of The sent home Yellow Team was then in a park talking to his wife who was pleading with him to lose weight because based on his family history, he would die within 10 years. 

Sherry of the Pink Team told America how she wanted to help her daughter and then Andrea was shown training her Dad on the motion ladder and was amazed that her Dad was able to do it for 10 years. 

 The Trainers Room was mentioned by John of The Brown Team.  The trainers room was where the players go to get fixed up after their grueling workouts.  This room has only been seen in one prior episode.  This is where the medics check out the players everyday and then a Walgreen’s commercial was slipped in showing a Walgreen’s product to ice down the knees.  This was another one of those built in commercials on the show that is Tivo proof.

After the commercail break we saw alol the students walk into a kitchen and met with chef Curtis Stone.  He said that he was going to teach them about portions.  He then revealed plates of foods and after seeing all the calories on each plate and the meal rang up to almost 9,000 calories.  Curtis said that he wanted to teach what a standard portion size would be.  He showed the players how to cook food healthy.  Curtis showed them that by eating healthy they could eat and not eat fatty foods that would make them even more obese.

Back at the ranch we saw the drama continue with the Green Team with Migdalia looking like a 5 yar old with her head on her hand leaning on the table.  Miggy told her daughter that she was unhappy and that is why she was gaining all the weight.  The mother told her that Jillian was just trying to push out her anger because that anger is what was an issue that proved she needed help.  The mom told the daughter that she did need to deal with her anger and that anger was what she needed to deal with if she wanted to be healthy.

After another commercial break we were back on the ranch listening to a recap of the first hour and Bob screaming “It is not a joke here!”  Right after that we saw a yellow school bus and they were at another challenge with Allison telling them to get off the bus.  There were huge rolls of ribbon on spools.  The teacher of each team had to unwind 1,000 feet of ribbon through a playground, which had typical things on a children’s playground.  Then a student had to go out and bring all of the ribbon back to the starting point.  The winner of the challenge had immunity and then they also had the choice to switch one team to make the teacher the student and the student the teacher.

The teachers had to then take the 1,000 feet of ribbon and roll it over and under and through things to make it difficult for the player to retrieve all the ribbon..  They had 15 minutes to tangle all of the ribbon up.  After the 15 minutes the ribbons were all over the place.  Allison then said that they would have to bring back their own ribbons and they had to retrieve it BLINDFOLDED.  The White Team was in trouble because they really made a mess of the ribbon. 

The teachers followed the students around the red Team was excited because he was used to working in the dark as a commercial diver.  The Pink Team was pitiful because the directions were horrible.  Maria on the White Team was getting angry because the ribbon was such a mess.  Sam and Koli were doing well and The Pink team was pitiful and did nothing but lay there on the floor.  The Green Team started to get angry and The Orange Team got stopped where the White Team tangled them all up.  The diving experienced Red Team was winning and The Gray Team was right behind them.  The Gray Team pulled ahead because the Red Team was stuck at a knot and the challenge was over.  The Gray Team won immunity at the weigh in.

Last chance workout with Bob telling them they had to be ready because nobody knew who was going to be switched at the weigh in by The Gray team.  Jillian hoped that the teachers were instructing their partners as she had told her to tell them.  Bob said that the best way to help Migdalia was to let her beat the crap out of the punching bag.  She actually broke open the bag and the stuffing came out all over the floor.  Bob smiled.  There were the typical scenes of players exercising and sweating and exercising and sweating.    Player after player came before America telling them how much was resting on their shoulders.  Then we heard all of the players say that Mike was not working out much and he was over 500 pounds and he was spending more time playing than he was working out.  The intensity of the exercise was evident by all of the sweat that was pouring off all of the other players.  Migdalia told her =exhausted mother that she loved her.

We then saw all of the players walking into the gym for the weigh in.  Allison greeted the players and the weigh in began after asking The Gray Team what team they decided would switch roles of teacher and student.  The team that the Gray Team decided to switch was The White Team.  Now for the weigh in The White Team had to switch roles of the teacher and The Student.  The Gray Team said they switched them on purpose because Mike has not worked out that hard.  They told Mike that he was privileged to be on the show and that he wasw one of the luckiest 24 people in the world because he made it to the ranch.  They told him that he was not working hard and that he did not take advantage of Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels being at his disposal.  The weigh in then began with the Gray Team that had immunity.

Gray Team:  Sam 345 / 334 lost 11 pounds.  Koli 366 / 353 lost 13 pounds.   Koli was the student.
Green Team: Migdallia 245 / 237 lost 8 pounds.  Miggy 219 / 212 lost 7 pounds. Miggy was the student. 3.2%
Black Team:  Andrea 279 / 272 lost 7 pounds.  Darrell 373 / 361 lost 12 pounds.  Darrell was the student.  3.22%
Orange Team:  Cheryl 210 / 203 lost 7 pounds.  Daris 310 / 301 lost 9 pounds.  Daris was the student.  2.90%
Mixed Team:  Stephanie 243 / 236 lost 7 pounds. John 451 / 437 lost 14 pounds.  John was the student.   3.10%
Red Team:  Melissa 215 / 214 lost 1 pound.  Lance 336 / 324 lost 12 pounds.  Lance was the student. 3.57 %

Once again it was obvious that Melissa threw the weigh in again.  This was the second week in a row that her weight loss was a joke.  Listening to the excuse Jillian said she was full of shi* and that she just wished she would stop thinking everyone was stupid.  Jillian said it was impossible to not lose weight with the calories she was burning.  Melissa and Bob and Jillian went at it and it was very hateful because Jillian said she was an expert and it was an insult for her to say she was not lying.  Melissa was upset at being called a liar and then Bob Harper shut it all down by saying that that was not the place to discuss it.  The Red team husband Lance said he did not want to even say a word about the whole thing.

White Team:  Maria 258 / 254 lost 4 pounds.  Michael 481 / 471 lost 10 pounds.  Michael was the student.  2.08%
Pink Team:  Ashley 345 / 333 lost 12 pounds.  Sherry 196 / 190 lost 6 pounds.  Ashley was the student.  3.48%

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The vote was then started and Allison explained what was happeining and the vote went as follows:

The show then ended.