Okay, so I have to confess...I am really into the current season of The Biggest Loser. This Tuesday the teams of two (what were left of them) were broken into two remaining teams, blue and black. The one who got to chose which contestant went on which team was Michael the winner of the "temptation challenge". And guess what he did...he put all the high power people on one team (on which he placed himself) and put all the rest on the other. It was the most unfair setup I could imagine. The two trainers, Bob and Jillian, were appalled. Blue team included all the strong players and black the "less strong".
I was so sad for the black team and so grumpy about Michael's choice. Mid-way through the episode I left to go to the gym and workout. Close to the end I noticed that Biggest Loser was playing on the TV and they were down to the weigh-ins...the last two weigh-ins. Blue (the strong ones) had been weighed and all but the last two on the black team had been weighed. The last two girls had to have lost more than 16 pounds between them to avoid going to elimination. I shook my head. Having watched the last several episodes I had not seen either of them do that much.
The first girl went to the scale, this young lady participated in the temptation challenge and ended up having to eat cookies and other fattening foods in the process. I thought for sure it would have cost her. But to my surprise, she had lost a full 8 pounds!!!
The final girl was up. I have not seen her lose more than 5 or six pounds in a week and I knew the black team was sunk. They would have to go through the awful process of sending someone home. She stepped on the scale, and to heighten the drama, the numbers go up, down, up and down again and stop finally to reveal...a 10 POUND LOSS!
Literally my jaw dropped and a smile spread wide across my face. The black team pulled it out! They did not let the disadvantage determine what they could do. It was such a fun moment for me.
I know, I know...it's reality TV but it just can't be denied...the black team was challenged and against the odds they came out the victors!
GO BLACK TEAM!
