The Biggest Loser Couples Recap / Review March 10 2009

The Biggest Loser Couples Recap / Review for March 10 2009:  This episode was possibly the best episode ever produced!  Being a long-time fan this episode had it all.  The ups and downs of the elimination vote, betrayal, mutiny and revolt by team member against their trainer combined with tears, sacrifice and betrayal.  This was by far one of the most exciting episodes ever and that is the opinion of so many of us here at I Choose Thin.com.

The show started off with a very brief recap of last week’s episode and then went right into the weigh-in where it was all left off at last week.  The scene quickly showed Mike on the scale and Alison Sweeney telling the world that he had to lose more than nine (9) pounds to ensure that all were safe from elimination.  The scale quickly revealed that Mike lost eleven (11) pounds and everyone was safe and nobody had to go home.  Ron, the Dad of Mike, walked up to Mike and gave him a big hug and told him how proud he was of him.  There were tears in Ron’s eyes and the openness of emotions revealed a deep bond between father and son.  Allison told Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels they had to leave as the teams had something to do.

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Allison informed the players that week # 10 was starting right then and there and that the rules for that week were changing.  This week the players were going to only compete against one player from the opposing team.  Those players would compete head to head and the overall team that had the most wins would be safe from elimination.  The twist was that there was going to be a challenge that would decide who would get to choose what those teams would be.

The challenge to decide who would have the power to pick teams, had the players compete doing what is referred to as “wall sitting.”  The competing players had to sit with their backs against the wall, without a chair.  In this position a ball about the size of a volley ball was placed on their thighs.  The players that dropped their ball, would be eliminated.  On The Black Team Helene and Sione sat out the challenge to ensure the team sizes were even.  The results of this challenge were as follows:
Ron lasted a mere 23 seconds because of his ongoing issue with his knee.  Cathy went down next followed closely by Aubrey, at the 2 minute mark.  At this point the only players that were out of it were The Blue Team members.  Mandi was the only one left for The Blue Team and then Mike and Laura were out which left it against Mandi and Tara.  The two were trying their very best when Mandi just gave out and fell.  It was less than one second later that Tara fell to the floor.  With Tara winning the competition she was the one to decide who would be facing off each other for the weigh-in.  Tara was so weak from her efforts that she could not even stand.

With Tara getting to choose the players that would face off one another the game offered tremendous interest to the viewers.  Tara received no help from her team as to what choices were to be made.  The choices were hers, and hers alone.  She even stated how much pressure there was on her because if her team lost, it would have been her fault, as she picked the teams.  The teams that she chose were as follows:

BLACK               vs.                    BLUE
Mike                                              Cathy
Sionne                                          Mandy
Filipe                                            Kristin
Helen                                            Ron
Laura                                            Aubrey

After the teams were chosen, the amount of trash talk by The Black Team was pretty loud.  The Black Team made many, many statements about how bad they were going to beat The Blue Team.  Kristin told the camera that The Black Team was sending someone home this week.  With this scene over the commercial break began.

When the commercial was over Bob Harper was seen looking over the shoulders at his players and striking up a discussion about how important fiber was in their diet.  This was one of those paid advertisements that are built into the show to get you to purchase a specific product.  In this commercial Bob was pushing fiber one barsbecause of how much fiber they contained.  Gosh, how we hate those things, but we did hear someone in our audience say “we should go but them and see how they taste.”

Once that online commercial was over and the show really started Bob was talking about how the new match ups were going to pan out.  Jillian too was quickly commenting about the new game rules and Bob then told Aubrey to “wipe the floor with Sione.”  Jillian then faced the camera and was afraid her team was “too cocky and complacent.”

The scene shifted to the players working out in The Biggest Loser gym and Helen said “Jillian killed us, she really killed us.”  As all of the scenes went by it was obvious that Jillian was not giving any time to train Filipe.  Filipe then looked in the camera and stated Jillian trained all of his teammates and she never gave him, his time.  He spent well over two hours on the treadmill and then Jillian just left.  The camera showed Jillian outside the building chatting with some people and Filipe alone in the gym.  His frustration level was getting very high, but that paled in comparison to his anger and contempt for Jillian.  Filipe even stated that “Jillian was ignoring me, Jillian walked out and never worked out with me.  That is bullcrap, when I was on Bob’s side he never gave up on me.”

Day #4 was the opening script on the next scene and there was everyone showing up at 24 Hour Fitness for their next challenge.  It was an off campus challenge that had 4 parts to the competition.  The winning team was going to win 24 hours of luxury. 

The challenge consisted of having to move twenty four, six pound medicine balls (they had handles) all around the building.  It started off with Ron and Filipe in a swimming pool.  All the balls had to go from one side of the pool to the other.  While Filipe swam, Ron walked.  Filipe quickly gained a large lead which was followed up with the next phase pitting Sione against Cathy.  They had to carry the balls up a large flight of stairs.  With this phase The Black Team still commanded a winning and large lead.  During the third phase of the challenge it was Mandi against Tara.  Mandi was catching up and they were seen crawling under bars of varying height.  The fourth phase had The Blue Team still in the rear pitted against Helen and Aubrey.  They had to run a fairly long distance and do 24 squat thrusts holding the balls over their heads, for each set of balls they carried.  The scene led the viewers to believe the competition was closer than it really was, but the end result was a win by The Black Team.  The win was really astounding as it was not even close as you saw Aubrey heading back for more balls when Helen claimed victory.  The Black Team won the 24 hours of luxury challenge.

The Black Team was then seen driving away in a limo with The Blue Team looking on at them.  The Black Team was then seen gloating about how The Blue Team had to work out while they were relaxing.  The scenes were really kind of rude and many of us were rooting for a Black Team failure.  While all of this was going on Kristin pinned a photograph of Sione on her treadmill to motivate her to beat him at the weigh-in.  The Black Team was then shown getting ready to eat while The Blue Team was at the ranch getting ready to eat.  The Blue Team was choosing food out of The Biggest Loser Cookbooks while The Black Team was getting ready to eat at a restaurant.  The next scenes were of over indulgence and recklessness by The Black Team members.  There were shots of them ordering massive amounts of food and many of those choices were bad food choices.  It really showed America that these are just typical people in an extraordinary situation.  It showed that they really did not appreciate the opportunity they had on The Biggest Loser campus.  They were eating Kobe Beef Sliders, jumbo shrimp cocktails and lots of mashed potatoes.  The girls were the worst with Helen leading the charge of stupidity.  There were even film clips of her smoking a cigarette and then they all started to drink shots of liquor at the table.  You would think they could stop smoking with opportunity The Biggest Loser presented them.  Soon they were seen drunk in a bar and eating fried chicken tenders and french fries.  Poor choices were all around, except for Mike.  He was absent from the binge and we think it was more a statement about his character, than his age.  The Black Team ate/consumed 15,563 calories while The Blue Team only had 1,612 calories.  If this is any indication of their future actions then the campus was a big waste of time for The Black Team.

The second hour of the show started with everyone being sworn to secrecy by Helen to not tell Jillian of their binge day out.  It was obvious that Jillian had some inside information about her team’s actions because she was shown grilling them for an explanation as to their actions the night before.  Jillian asked “who drank?” and she received blank stares.  Then Jillian was shown looking into the camera saying “Why should I care if they don’t?”  “Why do I lay up at night thinking of ways to help?”  When she kept asking the questions she slowly received her answer that they drank and at first everyone thought it was funny, except Jillian.  When she asked Helen why she smoked the response was “because they were safe working out on The Biggest Loser Campus.”  That answer flipped out Jillian Michael’s and she said “you’re right, it is so much safer on The Biggest Loser Campus and you won’t get lung cancer because you are here.”  Jillian then went completely nuts and said “go smoke till you die in an iron lung.”  That was when Filipe stepped in and started to yell at Jillian.  This was when there was a revolt against Jillian on campus.  Filipe then brought up the accusation that Jillian had not been a team player to him and she did not help him in the gym.  He then said that she let him down and she had no right to talk to them like that when she had disrespected him.  He kept banging his fist on the table over and over and then walked out of the room with Sione close behind.  Jillian did not say one word, which is also a Biggest Loser first.

After the commercial break Jillian told the camera that they ran to Daddy and then they were seen walking up to Bob Harper.  They told Bob what had happened and that they wanted to train with him.  Bob looked puzzled and angry all at once, yet he said he would train them.  The next scene was quite funny as Bob made light of the situation of the last chance workout.  Bob would tell one player on The Blue Team to work harder to kick the butt of The Black Team player that was right there next to them.  Over all it was a cute scene and it was so true when Bob stated that this was “the craziest last chance workout in Biggest Loser history.”  Jillian then walked into the gym and saw her two players training with Bob Harper and she said she was glad.  She was happy that she did not have to deal with it all and that she was happy they were with Bob.  There were many, many scenes of the last chance workout by all of the players.

As the weigh-in scene began Jillian stated to the camera that her team “did not deserve to win, their 24 hours of luxury turned into 24 hours of binging.”  The weigh -in was interesting because each team member was only competing against the player that was chosen by Tara.  You must remember that Laura held an extra vote from the previous week and that she would be able to cast it no matter who went to the elimination room.  The weigh in went as follows:
Tara 200/200 lost zero pounds.
Jillian responded with “zero weight reflected her actions”

Mike 276/278 lost 8 pounds to Cathy 246/242 lost 4 pounds. Black Team won this point.

Laura 226/227 gained 1 pound to Aubrey 203/200 lost 3 pounds. Blue Team won this point.
As the scale showed Laura’s weight gain, the ever love-able Kristin mouthed “Oh my God”, but no sound was uttered.

Filipe 275/274 lost 1 pound to Kristin 270/263 lost 7 pounds. Blue Team won this point.
Kristine then stated that Filipe was “beat by a girl” in that ever friendly tone of normalcy Kristin portrays.

Stacey’s weight loss totaled 67 pounds with help from Jillian’s program!

Helen 193/189 lost 4 pounds to Ron 343/337 lost 6 pounds. Black Team won this point.

As we entered the final portion of the weigh-in it, was Sione against Mandi.  It all came down to this moment and it appeared that The Black Team was about to be punished for the binge eating they did while off the ranch.  The shocker really came when the result ended up being Sione losing 6 pounds with Mandi gaining 2 pounds. 

The weight gain was a total show stopper and the silence seemed to last waiting for someone to announce it was a joke.  The end result was that The Blue Team was beat again and someone from The Blue Team was going home.  Mandi only had to lose 4 pounds to win and she gained 2 pounds, to send her team to the elimination table.  Aubrey was seen and heard saying “How in the fu** did that happen?”  Black Team won the weigh in.  Bob said that the reason she gained weight was because the stress she was under was huge.  Stress causes a person to not lose weight and that it was stress related.

Back in the bedrooms of the ranch the scene started with Ron saying it was time for Mandi to go home.  Aubrey said she would not vote off her sister and then Aubrey and Mandi cornered Laura from The Black Team to devise a plot.  They said they would all vote for Cathy and that would force a tie vote, to be decided by The Black Team.  With that tie vote the sisters could stay, or at least give them another chance to survive another week.  The scene was set for there to be a tie and then The Black Team would decide.  At this time Aubrey kept saying she was ready to go home but her team kept saying Mandi needed to go.  The scene was set for Aubrey and Mandi to double cross their team to survive to play another day.  The votes were as follows:

Laura (Black Team member with vote power from last week) voted for Cathy
Ron voted for Mandi
Kristin voted for Mandi
Cathy voted for Mandi
Aubrey voted for Cathy

At this point the stage was set to double cross her own team and yet Mandi decided to sacrifice herself to save her sister.  With one vote, Mandi voted for Ron and double crossed Laura, to prevent The Black Team from having elimination power.  With her sister in tears Mandi essentially voted herself out of the game by voting for Ron.  Her vote was a wasted vote and that meant that Mandi was the player voted off the show.  The person eliminated from The Biggest Loser on March 10 2009 was Mandi.

During The Biggest Loser Moment there were many scenes showing Mandi at home with her family and the word at I Choose Thin is that Mandi really looked hot!  Mandi really looked great and she has proven herself to be one selfless individual for the way she voted.

The preview for next week showed players returning home for a visit with their families.  Mike meeting his very obese brother will be an intense moment.  Make sure you join us for another complete review and recap of The Biggest Loser.