photo: nbc
Original Air Date: Nov 22, 2011
Anne – Associate Editor
anne@thetwocentscorp.com
It’s Thanksgiving week on the Biggest Loser Ranch and they have all the fixings for a wonderful holiday. It will just be a healthier holiday. We’re winding down to the end here and there are only three episodes left after tonight. The winner will be decided on Tuesday, December 13.
Thanksgiving really is one of the hardest holidays to get through when you are watching your weight. Does anyone else struggle with that? My biggest weakness is the stuffing, so this year I asked my mom to make me some sautéed mushrooms instead. On to the review!
We jump right into a temptation opening the episode. There is a table with all the different traditional Thanksgiving foods on little paper plates. Below each plate is a number. They have five minutes to eat whatever they want to claim the numbers. The lowest number picks the first of three prizes and so on. Everyone eats immediately except for Sunny, but she eventually gives in as well. The prizes they have to choose from are:
– Vinny pulls the number 10 and chooses a 3 pound advantage on the scale
– Becky picks second with a 38 and chooses a full Cybex home gym
– Antone picks up the rear and will win $500 for every pound he loses this week
During workouts, Dolvett focuses on John, who is his last man standing. Bob works hard with Vinny, who he feels should have lost more and hit the 100 lb. mark weeks ago. Bob and Antone have a talk about how John doesn’t seem to really celebrate his accomplishments and they are worried this will cause him to gain his weight back. Dolvett agrees and has a talk with John about it. Later that night, the trainers surprise the contestants with a Thanksgiving dinner Biggest Loser style. They all share their thanks with each other. Bob opens up about his sister, who has struggled with her weight for years.
Now it’s challenge time! One mile straight up on the Jacob’s Ladders. Those things are the devil, let me tell ya. Again, there will be three prizes to choose from:
– 6 months of the Biggest Loser meal plan for yourself and one eliminated person
– $2500 for yourself and one other person still in the game
– 1 pound advantage for yourself and a one pound DISadvantage for someone else
They all struggle through, but John finishes first and chooses the 1 lb. advantage. He will announce who gets the disadvantage when they get to the weigh-in. Sunny comes in second and chooses the meal plan for herself and for Bonnie. Ramon comes in third and gets the money for himself and he chooses Vinny to get the other $2500. The others wonder who John will give the disadvantage to. Vinny asked him to give it to him, since he has the 3 lb. advantage from earlier. We’ll have to wait and see. On a side note, I love the way that Ramon says “treadmeal”.
At the weigh-in, John announces that the disadvantage will go to Sunny. What? Ok then. Here are the weight results:
John – 5+1= 6 (1.94%)
Antone – 8 (2.36%) – wins $4000!!
Vinny – 11+3=14 (4.18%)
Becky – 5 (2.75%)
Ramon – 4 (1.83%)
Sunny – 5-1= 4 (1.93%)
So, it comes down to Ramon and Sunny. The vote ends up being tied and Ramon goes because his percentage was smaller. Interesting aside, Antone went off on John for voting for Sunny after giving her the disadvantage. It’s kind of a kick in the gut. But it didn’t get blown up and I doubt we’ll see much consequence, seeing next week is makeover week. In his Transformation Moment, we see that Ramon is reunited with Jessica and has lost 110 lbs. overall. He gave himself a makeover and looks awesome with the shorter hair. They go skydiving together and he all but announces to the camera that he’s going to propose to Jessica at the finale.
I loved this episode, but I am very sad to see Ramon go. I’ve always thought he was a cutie-patootie, and he’s so nice. I’m not quite as fond of Jessica, but I like to see them happy together. I just hope she’s as into him as he is into her. What did you guys think of the episode? Please leave your own TwoCents below and fill me in! Thank you for reading and I’ll see you next week!
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