Biggest Loser Finale & Momma's Boys Premiere

I have been watching on and off the Biggest Loser. It is so amazing the weight that these have people lost. Of the four that were left on last night's finale, Heba, her hubby Ed, Vickki and Michelle, I thought it was so totally hilarious that America voted by a landslide to keep Ed in the finale and vote out Heba. I know a collective groan went through America, when Ed pleaded with America to keep his wife in the running. My first thought was Oh please! If she has that much control over him to make him plead for her to stay instead of him, then she needs to be voted out, and that is exactly what America did by a landslide! Heba would have been better off letting Ed plead his own case. Ed looked silly begging America to keep his wife instead of him, did she really want it that bad? Either way one of them would go to the finale and have the chance at the money. At the reunion show, about the only ones that still needed help losing the weight looked like Tom Jr. and Tom Sr. Junior went from 360 to about 270, but he's still a big boy and if not careful, could balloon up again. The second place finish went to big girl Heba with an impressive weight loss, inching out an almost too gaunt Amy.

After Heba winning, I was so hoping that Ed wouldn't win, because that wouldn't be fair. Another Survivor Gabon with winner take all. I didn't think tho that Ed (he better be careful, what with being a chef and all) would have a chance and I was hold my breath when Vicki did her weigh in. Doesn't she walk knocked knees with her feet in a duck stance? I guess she'll have to learn not to walk like a fat girl. I was rooting this entire time for Michelle to win, after all the black team has been the underdogs this whole season. So when Michelle got on the scale and had to lose 105 pounds, I was like, eek! That's a lot of weight. But when she made 110 I was so glad for her and her trainer, Jillian. Michelle looked amazing and so totally deserved to win against the other two. All around a satisfying conclusion to this season.

After that came the premiere of Momma's Boys-a bachelor style dating game with a twist-momma's coming along for the ride, nothing like three's a crowd. Thirty girls for 3 bachelors to chose from, nice odds. Looks like Michael the EMT from Jersey is already a crowd favorite. He is a cutie and his mother is seems pretty hip. The other momma's boy, Rob is a nice Jewish boy from New York, oy vey! His mother is your typical Jewish mom ( I know I had one). The third bachelor is JoJo whose mother is the mother from hell. Khalood (what kind of name is that?) already has created fireworks with her racial and ethnic slurs (hey isn't she some kind of ethnic herself?). She just wants a nice white girl for her little man. Well, with a mixed crowd of ethnicity's in the bachelorettes, this show seems like it has all the makings for some mindless entertainment. Let the backstabbing begin!-Single D

Biggest Loser 5-Goodbye Brown Team

I used to watch The Biggest Loser when Caroline Rhea was the host. Whatever happened to her? Did she get too fat to host and thereby becoming a good candidate for the Biggest Loser herself? She was so funny, she was like family, someone you would want to invite to dinner. Now it is hosted by a slimmer, younger, blonder version of Caroline Rhea, Alison Sweeny. I guess she's alright and does make the appropriate sympathetic faces at the right moment. I missed the premiere last week so I am just familiarizing myself with the contestants. Already I like the Brown Team, Curtis and Mallory.

Right off the bat, Bette Sue of the pink team decided to eat Treadmill and did a face first on the rubber. I thought for sure she's hurt, I mean 200+ pounds taking a header on a piece of gym equipment, tell me whose going to win? But she's a trooper and kept on jogging.

That Hall of Truth showing video's of each contestant's consumption of food in a year, totaling calories, fat, sugar etc etc was like a nightmarish Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory. The totals were astounding, who knew one could consume so much, it was scary!

But back at in the exercise room, there was alot of whining from Neill, crying that he can't do it any more-goodness-he shoulda won the Oscar for Best Whining During an Exercise Session. Scarlett, you will live to see another day. Jillian, the exercise guru is one tough cookie. You go girl, these people need tough love, especially Neill as he definitely has issues with his weight and his ability to move forward or at least to get moving at all.

That giant seesaw challenge looked fun-but a 100 times? I think even for the conditioned person that might be tiring. Good going to the black team for winning and then having to pick three other teams to give the phone cards to. I'm glad they gave it to the ones that have family.

Maggie and Jen were whining that they wanted the phone cards and it wasn't fair that just because the others have family that they should pick them-oh wa, want some cheese with the whine? You wait until you have children and are apart from them for any lenght of time, it rips your heart out. So I did have a momentary minute of weakness when the calls to home were made and the couples got to speak with their kids. I just hate it when adults cry!

The food challenge allowed each contestant to walk through a room of food and whoever ate the most calories would win $5,000. I seriously didn't think anyone would fall for that, but of course the devil on the shoulder of Mallory (she just ate a handful of candies) Mark and Paul fell to temptation. Paul's excuse (I think he called it a plan) was that he was allowed to eat at least 900 calories more for the day, I think that's his excuse everyday, that's why he has a weight problem. I think Mark just wanted to eat and so he did, cake, sweets, rolls....In the end Mark won the money beating out Paul by just a few calories (912 to 931 something like that).

At the weigh-in it was the brown team, my initial favorite team that was in the bottom 2 and I can understand why the other teams eliminated them, because they are a strong united couple and their return home would not signal an end to their commitment to exercise and lose the weight, unlike Paul and Kelly, the divorced couple. Goodbye Mallory and Curtis-they did look good with their progress at home, keep it up! One more thing, do the guys have to remove their shirts during the weigh-in...those man boobs are just wrong!-Single D

This is the first time I have watched Biggest Loser. The whole concept just never appealed to me. A bunch of overweight people trying to lose weight, got it. The first thing I noticed was that they never showed them eating (except for the food challenge) so we have no idea what kind of diet or restrictions have been imposed. All they show is the contestants working out, is that all they do all day? No wonder Neill was complaining, although it was annoying. Come on Neill, like Jillian said, people pay thousands of dollars to come to this place and you are getting it for free!

The see-saw challenge looked like fun! I thought they should have shown the contestants getting on the see-saw, that would have made for good TV! Paul said it was like steel dental floss up your butt. Yeah, those seats did look uncomfortable. Three teams made it to 100 with brothers Jay and Mark winning. I know it was hard for them to pick which other teams would get the calling cards. Of course everyone started crying thinking about calling home. Everyone has someone they miss and it is a good morale booster to get to talk to a loved one. But hey, not everyone could win so suck it up and try harder next time!

That hall of truth thing was an eye opener to some of the teams. That started everyone crying again. I'm sorry, did you think you got that big by eating lettuce and carrot sticks?!

The food challenge was whoever ate the most calories wins $5000. Only three people ate anything and what they ate was JUNK! Hello, did anyone see the meat and baked potatoes?! Those have calories and it's protein without all the sugar. Again, I go back to why they are the way they are. I would have been all over the steak and potatoes!

Biggest Loser is one big cry fest, one lazy guy (Neill) who to everyone's amazement keeps losing weight, and watching these people work out all the time. I'm glad these people are trying to get healthy but it's just not my cup of tea. I do like Bette Sue's facial expressions! Good luck to all! Double D