Biggest Loser Losses and Special Gains

Biggest Loser Losses and Special Gains by Roxanne McDonald

Teasers including “The Biggest Loser” contestants’ original, first-week photos head up a blockbuster episode.

Great inspiration two days before Thanksgiving comes by way of “The Biggest Loser,” which starts this week with before pictures and indual retrospectives—how they looked, felt, and felt about how they looked.

That’s always a powerful surprise.

Another surprise is how from week to week (real time weeks for us, months for them?) the players change so dramatically for the better. Just turning on the TV on Tuesday nights and tuning to TBL, I have to do a double take and make sure I am not watching an old episode from an old season I don’t recall…, that’s how dramatic the positive changes are:

Bill, whose brother is also a loser (having lost almost 100 pounds), has lost 100 pounds. Make that 106 pounds.

Brian, the only one left on the Red Team, has lost 70 pounds. Make that 76 pounds.

Hollie, who doesn’t get a sub-caption for a while into the show (maybe because last week she had a zero-pound weight loss?), has lost 43 pounds. Make that 51 pounds.

Isabeau, the villain of the day (for going along with the idea of voting off Amy), has lost 57 pounds. Make that 64 pounds.

Julie, who is the least televised for some reason, has lost 38 pounds. Make that 42 pounds.

Kae has lost over 30% of her body weight and 66 pounds and has won a $5,000 shopping bonanza from the plugging sponsor of the week, Prevention Magazine. Make that 69 pounds and her pace on the show.

Neil, ever the humble one, has lost 110 pounds. Make that 118 pounds total (the size of his girlfriend).

Nicole, who is “channels her inner Tyra” in front of the camera, has lost 57 pounds. Make that 61 pounds.

But we learn of their successes of late in a different way this week, during an excursion to a different venue. The Biggest Loser teams get a visit to NBC

Studios, to the sets of “Days of Our Lives” (of course), and to the quick meet and greet with Bryan “Lucas” Dattilo.The players get NBC makeovers (and Kae gets a special gift, a piece of Kristian “Hope” Alfonso’s jewelry line), a photo shoot, and the biggest surprise to date—their loved ones arriving for tears and cheers by way of a door in the central panel of the three-sided mirror…, then a reunion dinner at Brady’s, the fictional DOOL pub set.

A great pre-Thanksgiving boost, and an inspiring and teary one at that. Lots to be grateful for, folks.

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