The Biggest Loser: Hot Wings Are Yummy

The contestants on The Biggest Loser returned home this week. For the first time in 58 days, they didn't have Bob or Jillian by their side or the support of their fellow teammates to keep their eating and workout habits on track. After spending an unsupervised week with friends and family, would the contestants return to campus having kept their impulses in check?

They were all happy to go home and see their loved ones. Of course, there were the sappy homecoming parties, with lots of complements on how great the contestants' smaller selves looked. And there was plenty of food at the gatherings. Mark's son was a little cutie pie snatching the donuts from the table! He couldn't resist that sugary goodness, but Dad stepped in and took it away from him. He didn't want his son to grow up and become like him. (I understand that urge, but Mark really should have removed all of that food from the table when he saw it in the first place.)

Paul's second day home didn't go so well for him. While the other contestants were going out to eat and ordering healthy food, Paul provided his crew with unlimited hot wings in celebration. Unfortunately, he also provided them for himself, along with lots of dressing on the side. I was so disappointed in him. I could understand him having two or three as a splurge, but when he just didn't stop, I wondered if he'd learned anything at all on The Biggest Loser campus.

Once everybody said goodbye to their loved ones and returned to campus, they were debriefed by the trainers about whether or not they had "behaved" at home. It would be an understatement to say that Jillian was ticked at Paul. Besides pigging out, he had completely ignored Jillian's calls. She had called all of the contestants every single morning and every single night to check on them, but Paul never talked to her -- he said that his phone was dead. Then he was cold busted by Jillian, because Kelly had told Jillian that she'd spoken to Paul. I think he just felt guilty about falling off the wagon and didn't want to discuss it.

The challenge this week was one of my favorites -- the giant jump rope beam. You know, the one where they have to jump over the foam bar, and if they don't jump high enough it breaks, and they're out. Yeah, that one. The winning team would get to choose two people on the losing team to weigh in that night -- a full 24 hours before the regular weigh-in. I was thrilled when Brittany was the final person jumping and the black team won. Dan and Roger were chosen to weigh-in early and between them they had lost 27 pounds. At that point I began to really wonder if the black team would be able to win the weigh-in.

I had every right to worry, too -- the black team wound up losing big time. The blue team pummeled them on the scales with their total weight loss of 56 pounds and 5.67%. The black team only lost a combined 26 pounds and 2.42% of their weight. I knew immediately who was going home; I didn't even have to watch the elimination ceremony. It was Paul's time to leave the show. Unfortunately for him, he came down with double pneumonia after going home and has gained back 3 of the 67 pounds he'd lost while on the campus. I hope he's able to get back on track in time for the finale because he was one of my favorites.

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