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I wonder how many people go out and buy the products they pimp on The Biggest Loser USA, assuming they are the best weight loss products just because Jillian and Bob say so? Being from the UK product placement is still pretty unusual to me, despite the amount of American TV I watch – so when they do them they stand out a mile, whereas I guess most America’s hardly notice at all.

I understand the need for it and have no objections really, I just think that some shows need to be very careful about what they are pimping and I would love to know what sort of effect they have on sales.

I have only seen the first half of the episode so far, I will no doubt have more to say once I have seen the rest.

Firstly I need to start watching the episodes sooner. I added a bunch of contestants past and present on Facebook this week but forgot to take into account that they’d all be discussing the show – I am very anti spoilers as you know, so knowing exactly what happens in the episodes ruin them for me.

So either watch ‘em faster or remove them all as friends again, boo.

On to the show itself – Dina and jumping on the footstool, what am I missing? I simply didn’t understand the difficulty she was having with it at all…just…yanno…jump on it.

I will never understand why Bob and Jillian go along with the drama and crying when it comes to people switching teams or losing their partners — I feel like they ought to be telling them to suck it up and that it will ultimately make them stronger. I lost a lot of love for Bob last year when he did this and I feel the same again this year. I thought the UK lot were bad when this happened in the last UK series, but I clearly hadn’t seen any thing yet…Bob is not always going to be your trainer, you can’t take him home with you in your pocket…Rudy is not always going to be your partner, you can’t take him home with you in your pocket. Might as well get used to that now than in a few weeks time. Drama Queens.

Liz and Rebecca are nasty. I can’t get my head around every one hating on Tracy for the way she split the teams, she was never going to be able to make everyone happy and I actually think she split them pretty fairly. Liz and Rebecca’s reactions to the fact she didn’t do what they wanted were especially pathetic. She won the power, it’s her call bitches.

I also didn’t understand why the black team kept being referred to as the underdogs, as I said above the teams seemed pretty evenly stacked to me.

I was just looking at the gorgeous gourmet dark chocolate available at Gertrude Hawk, drool, how am I meant to stick to my healthy regime when I have such beautiful dark chocolates tempted me to eat them?

I need to summon the voice of Boblian in my head shouting at me not to do it, or actually more effective for me would be imagining the work out they;d give me if I was on The Biggest Loser and had given in to a temptation challenge — they’d make me sweat blood!

Still, chocolate….yum, I am having some. Boblian can’t touch me all the way over here in England

Seeing the eliminated contestants come back for chance to get back in the game on The Biggest Loser Australia reminds me of the first time it happened way back in season one, and the awful way the final three and Jillian treated returnee Harry — Adro especially was a big child about it, saying how unfair it was and being really unkind to and about Harry. Adro ended up getting eliminated next, but at the start of the finale he was brought back into the game because Harry had been taking vitamins…yes vitamins, not diet pills like liporexall or anything, while he was out of the house.

It later came out that Adro has whinged and moaned and threatened with lawyers so the producers had had to come up with a way to get Adro back in. I always thought it was the biggest crock ever and am still bitter that Adro went on to win and was/is a very popular contestant — it seemed like I was the only person on the planet that saw his hypocrisy!

I am stating to hope the rumours that this is Jillians last season are true, she’s getting on my nerves — though I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt and blame it on a bad edit from the producers.

The way she was practically boasting about Philipe and Siones relatively poor weight loss over the last few weeks, since they stopped working out with her was shameful — it reminded me of the way she was with Harry on his return to the game way back in Biggest Loser Australia season one. The fact she’s completely written them off is surprising, the way she’s happy to see them fail is just not cool.

Also with the piece to camera about how she’s the shit and every one should listen to her. Well, yeah she’s the trainer and she knows what she’s doing…of course people should listen to her, but damn woman don’t make out like you are infallible — some times people have small loses or gain weight just because they do, because their body says so.

It’s happened on your watch, when a contestant has followed your instructions to the letter!

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As for Tara, I am happy to see she’s finally hit that wall and had two bad weeks — this is when her character will be tested, this is when we see if she really is this super strong and determined woman she portrays herself as. Will she dust herself off, follow her trainers instructions and bounce back — or will she meltdown and whinge about how it’s all so unfair?

Can’t wait to find out.

I loved Mr Voice Over Man calling this years contestants ‘The fattest ever’, I don’t know why — I think usually they keep it a lot more PC and skirt around the F word, calling them big, heavy and large etc instead.

Now is it just me or did the powers that be preview some sort of Sione melt down, a freak out about Bob not working with him on the treadmill or something? Only, they then never showed it in the episode — unless I fell asleep and missed it, which is possible, I’ve been known to do that hehe.

Tara, still find her annoying but you gotta hand it to her — girl is a freaking machine. I keep thinking that this week must be her ‘bad week’, every one gets them…no matter how strong or how hard they work, sooner or later every one usually hits a wall. How is she avoiding it? I actually think it might do her some good to have that bad week, learning how to deal with failures in weight loss is an important part of the journey.

Finally…cliff hanger? Oh noes, I hate cliff hangers…they mean I have to like, wait, to find out results and stuff. Grr.

Having said that I think the results are pretty obvious.

Mike does something selfless and kind.
Jillian talks about karma.
Mike is the last one to weigh in, it all hangs on him losing 10 pounds.

It’s be pretty darned rude of the producers to have him not pull the 10 now, wouldn’t it?

*Breaks into song*

Iiiiiiiii know, how hard it can be, you gotta lift!

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Only just over two weeks now before The Biggest Loser Australia kicks off it’s fourth season, can you tell I am a little bit excited about that?

It’s the perfect little package for me — it’s a reality show, it airs daily so it’s really easy to get really immersed into and the goal is to lose weight and better the contestants lives.

As someone who is trying to lose weight and has been for almost two years now, this show is hugely motivational to me — it inspires me to get off my (now much smaller, thank you very much) bottom and do something, get some calories burned. I think that this year though the work outs are going to have to remain indoors, I am from the UK and it is so darned cold out there this year and I don’t really have any suitable outdoor clothing, that I don’t think I am up for braving an outdoor run or two.

I find the Australian version superior to the American one for many reasons, of course I miss Bob and Jillian from the Australian show because for the last two seasons they have only been on it part time — but I love that there are many more twists and adventures a long the way, but the main thing that scores it points is the simple fact it’s a daily show rather than a weekly one.

Like I said, much easier to get fully immersed into.

Roll on February 1st

I am happy to be proven wrong in what I said in my last post about The Biggest Loser — Ed/Heba were not certs for the win and America does seem to share that same sick sense of humour us Brits do as evidenced in the fact they voted Heba out. Ed really could have won it though — you could see he still had a little weight to lose, I feel if he’d tried a bit harder he would have had it!

The finale really wasn’t that interesting though. It pains me Heba won the at home prize — though the up side of that being if America has voted her into the final three, she would have won the lot, I was really rooting for Amy and there was absolutely no mention of the despicable way Vicky, Brady, Ed and Heba acted throughout the show…it’s as though the producers thought if they didn’t revisit any of that nastiness we’d just forget it ever happened.

Thankfully people have longer memories.

And is it just me or was there a certain amount of karma at stake when both Heba and Vikcy very nearly fell flat on their arses during their big ‘look at me’ moment, hmm

That said congratulations to them all, I am glad Michelle won the main prize and roll on season 7!