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February 10, 2009 episode of The Biggest Loser,Recap, Week #5:  We here at I Choose Thin.com being the huge fans of The Biggest Loser and the message it sends about the common person trying to lose weight provide this update to keep the other dedicated fans in touch with what they may have missed.  This being the 100th episode of the show sort of makes it a milestone that was not even referred to on the show, which was a slight surprise.

The show started with The Brown Team talking about how they fell below the yellow line two weeks in a row even though they had been each burning about 10,000 calories a day.  Since they still had not lost the weight needed they knew they would have to do something different this week.

Allison walked into the house and announced there was about to be a challenge and the prize for that challenge was the privilege of a family member to visit on the ranch for 24 hours.  As they walked out to the swimming pool area it was noticed there were team colored wooden blocks arranged in a group near the pool.  These blocks were meant to be stood on with one foot until everyone fell off and the last one standing would be the winner and get to see their family. The results were as follows:

Brown Team Ron lasted less than 15 seconds, Mike also of The Brown Team lasted 22 seconds, Kristin from The Purple Team lasted 24 seconds and Dane from The Black Team held out 2 minutes 23 seconds.  The next to fall off the wooden blocks happened in the following order and there were no posted times for when they fell.  Tara from The Green Team, Cathy from The Purple Team and then Shanon from The Pink Team fell off and fell into her Mom Helen, and they were both out.  Helen was quite annoyed as the camera cut away.  Then Laura from The Green Team went down followed by what was heart touching and interesting when Mandy from The Yellow Team pleaded with Sione to step off so she could see her family.  Sione from The Blue Team stepped off and then there was only Blaine from The Black Team and Aubrey from The Yellow Team.  Mandy then pleaded with Blaine to step off and Blaine said he would as long as Aubrey said she would step off also.  Everyone complied and that left Mandy to the one to win the challenge and allowed her to have a visit from her family.

Bob Harper then walked into the house for his first appearance on the show and he said that he was not surprised that the Silver Team was sent home and The Brown Team survived the last vote.  Bob  then said that The Brown Team needed to make some changes and then Sione chimed in stating that The Brown Team had to step it up or they might have to send them home.  Bob then said that the reason The Brown Team was not losing weight was because they were not eating enough.  Bob Harper then said “Stop thinking and (start) eating more.”  Bob went on to say that since Ron had a bad knee that Mike needed to work twice as hard to save his father from being sent home. 

The next scene was Jillian talking to her group and Jillian said that Mandy winning the challenge was the worst outcome because she thought it would cause all of her emotional problems to surface.  Jillian went on to say that sometimes if one spouse loses weight the other non-losing spouse may cause problems.  Jillian went on to say this win would only make it more difficult for her to focus on losing weight at the ranch. 

After a commercial break Bob Harper was seen putting his group through the paces of a Yoga workout.  Kristin from The Purple Team made a comment as to how spiritual a person Bob Harper was and Bob then cut in saying that yoga is a great workout because it helps a person deal with the mental issues of weight loss.  Filipe then stated that Yoga may look easy but it made him sweat.  Bob then made the statement that “Yoga is the fountain of youth.”

Jillian then was shown working out with Laura from The Green Team and Jillian made the statement that Laura is not the most motivated person in the house.  Jillian then said that Laura was full of platitudes and that she was really half-ass and had little emotions in the statements she made.  As the workout progressed Jillian had Tara come over and told her that if Laura did not perform her boxing workout correctly that Tara was to slap her team-mate.  Once this was suggested Laura increased her workout intensity and there had to be no slaps given.

When the show returned from a commercial break an infomercial about Subway sandwich shops began.  Bob told his team they had to walk to eat and ended up walking quite far.  We will not repeat the infomercial because it really is just an anti-TIVO commercial, but that does not mean we do not believe in the healthy food sold there.  It is better that a burger place.

The challenge started on a chilly night as Allison was wearing a fur coat, which she looked great in, by the way.  The challenge theme was that each team had to hold up a bar, over their heads, while facing their team mate.  Between that bar was another bar and if the bar that was being held up were to be let down, they would touch. This would cause a red light to turn on.  The winner of this challenge would receive immunity from elimination.  Blue Team made the statement that there were sure to win and then the challenge began.  The challenge started at 8Pm and lasted for over 4 hours and 40 minutes.  After the first hour the players were all there and then they were not allowed to switch arms any longer.  At two hours they had to hold the bar over their head with both hands on the bar.  The results were as follows.

The Blue Team was the 1st team out when they became distracted.  The Brown Team followed soon thereafter and following them The Black Team was also out of the contest.  This left only the woman since all the men already lost.  After two hours The Pink Team succumbed and the Yellow Team was after them.   This left only The Purple Team and The Green Team playing.  As the comments were being made that the challenge was similar to the two teams left playing last week, Laura dropped the bar causing The Green Team to lose.  The Purple Team won immunity by winning the challenge.

The next scene began with Mandy’s husband Rusty showing up on the ranch.  They were apart 6 weeks and he said to her “Your face looks so much different” and Mandy said “I lost 45 pounds.”  Mandy then cooked her family a healthy, organic breakfast before she took them on a workout and the husband agreed it was really hard to do.

As all of the teams were out walking when Bob Harper pulled up in a golf cart and was really happy The Purple Team won the challenge. He then gave The Purple Team a ride back to the ranch in the cart.

Bob  later said to the camera, and America, that if The Brown Team falls below the yellow line then he has “met the first team he has not been able to help”.  At the start of the last chance workout Bob Harper singled out Mike from The Brown Team and told him that he had to work harder to keep his Dad, Ron, on the ranch.  Mike said that is why he was the first one in the gym and Bob said he needed to be the last one out of the gym also.  Mike was soon shown to be in tears and Bob said “Mike was crying because of the reality of his Dad hit him”.   This is Ron’s last chance and Mike needed to help him because it was a life and death situation for Ron.

Soon we saw Jillian starting her last chance workout as a clock on the screen showed 8:00Am.  Her workout lasted all day long as the scenes flashed 12:00, then 3:00 and as the scenes flashed it was 9:00PM.  Jillian said “we have no votes” and we must not fall below the yellow line. Aubrey was seen breaking down in tears and Jillian then showed her emotional side, as she does weekly.  Jillian then told the camera, and America, that she had to work her team really hard because they had less votes and that all of the drama in the house really sucked but she had to help them all  and punish  them through the weigh-in.

As the weigh in approached it was revealed that Mandy spent most of her time with her family and little time working out, as Jillian predicted would happen.  Jillian said the family did become a distraction.  The scene of the family leaving the ranch was fairly sad but from an outsider’s perspective she was crazy to risk her spot on the ranch when the entire goal of being on the ranch was to become healthy enough to live longer and see her family years longer.

The results of the weigh-in were as follows:

The Purple Team: This team had immunity and there was some definite game play because Kristin gained 2 pounds and that only sets her up for next week.  Kristin shed a tear of disappointment but we here really believe it was all an act. 

Blue Team:   Filipe 303/299 lost 4 pounds, Sione 316/329 lost 5 pounds  3.37 %
Green Team: Tara 252/229 lost 11 pounds, Laura 252/249 lost 3 pounds 2.85%
Pink Team: Helen 216/211 lost 5 pounds, Shanon 246/241 lost 5 pounds 2.16%
Yellow Team: Mandy 221/215 lost 6 pounds, Aubrey 224/223 lost 1 pound 1.57 %
Bob then told the camera in a cut away camera shot that “my reputation is on the line, I think I’m gonna’ throw up.”  As the Brown Team stepped on the scale…
Brown Team: Mike 330/317 lost 13 pounds; Ron 366/361 lost 5 pounds
The next statement Bob said was “see what happens when you listen to me America?”  In reference to the fact that in order to lose weight a person has to eat and not try to starve it off.
Black Team: Blaine 303/299 lost 4 pounds, Dane 334/329 lost 5 pounds
The Black Team lost the weigh-in and the twist was that the vote would be to only send home one of the players on the team and they had one hour to choose before the vote.
After the commercial break the show resumed with Blaine asking to be sent home.  He stated he only had 50 more pounds to go and that he could do that at home.  This is when the show got good.  The players started to bicker about how now they were being told to vote with their hearts, yet when they asked to send home Joelle the other team played the game and sent home a strong player.  The arguing and emotions started to rise.  It culminated when Kristin blurted out “Why did Joelle stay and Damien go home, your team tricked us”.

The vote was as follows:

The Pink Team: Held a grudge and voted for Blaine.  The Brown Team had Ron pleading that if he were to be asking to sent home they would honor his wish, so he voted for Blaine.  The Green Team picked Blaine as did The Blue Team and The Purple Team, which showed some character on Kristin’s part.

The player sent home for the February 10th 2009 episode of The Biggest Loser Couples was Blaine from The Black Team.  He walked out amid a tearful and huggy goodbye.

The Biggest Loser Moment showed Blaine had lost a total of 86 pounds to date and spoke of his intention to participate in an iron man competition before The Biggest Loser Finale.

See you next week!