WHEEL! OF! CRAAAAAAZY! A Biggest Loser Update!

So, we open with a Temptation Challenge this week where we have a big ol’ Wheel of Fortune with covered serving dishes on it. Under the covers are either $1,000, a snack worth up to 1000 calories or a Golden Ticket. The ticket allowed you to pick the players that would make up the new blue and black teams AND you could pick the trainers.

So, Danny goes up and gets a big ol 1K calorie slab o’ cake. It looked so amazingly good and I thought, “How many times have I eaten a piece of cake that big, or, for that matter, two hunks of cake that big in one sitting?

The players continued to spin, Daniel got a cupcake, Alan got a teeny little wee one but then Tracy came up. The wind picked up and she spun. Sure enough, Willy Whackjob got the ticket.

So, what did she do?

She joined Bob’s team (who looked like he’d rather eat poop) and took Daniel, Rebecca, Shay, Liz, coach Mo and Alan and left Jillian with the remaining players.

Here’s why this appeared stupid:

• Jillian was waiting to physically beat her to a pulp
• Bob doesn’t care for her in the least
  
• She separated teams causing more animosity amongst her opponents

Here’s where it appeared smart:

• She loaded up her team with heavy hitters and weight losers
  
• She got away from Jillian

Here’s how it played out, in actuality:

1) Blue team won the challenge, getting videos from their families. This was a nice morale builder for them. When Liz asked Danny to watch her video with her I Was touched because they are so close. When it was revealed that it was actually his video I damn near bawled. That was a very nice thing for Liz to do.

2) What seemed like a bad thing of people being separated from their support (teammates or favorite trainers) actually turned out to be pretty advantageous, showing these people that they actually could rely on themselves instead of others. This probably was not something Crazy-Eyes put into consideration.

3) The Blue Team fell below the yellow line and she was on the chopping block

So who went home?

Coach Mo. Yeah, you read that right. Coach Mo! He somehow convinced the team to send him home because he wasn’t going to be able to pull his own weight due to injury. Mind you, he carried the purple team for two friggin' weeks when Tracey wasn’t there, but we seem to have forgotten that.

Now, here are some thoughts I have.

• I think the wheel was rigged. You heard me. I think the producers know Tracey is the loosest of cannons and her getting the Golden Ticket will make for good TV so they rigged it. She sure didn't look as psyched as she should have. That said, she's a couple sammiches short of a proper picnic, so maybe I'm expecting something else...
  
• I wondered last week when Daniel didn’t lose if he had waterloaded. Now, that he lost this week and Shay banged out an very impressive 16 pounds this week, I am left to wonder if they both didn’t do it. I didn’t think Daniel was a player like that, but hey, maybe I’m naïve. Maybe he’s playing with the best of intentions, but still, I wonder.
• Rebecca, Rebecca, Rebecca. Becky. Beckers... It's a known fact that here at the Compound there's a split feeling about you. As the half of the house that likes you, I feel like I should be the one to ask you this: What in the ever lovin' green hell happened to your hair?
• Liz is a class act. So is Rebecca for that matter.
• Dina, for the love of all that is sacred and holy, JUMP!
  

I guess we’ll have to see how this plays out. It will be nothing if not interesting.

In unrelated news I walked/ran about 4 miles at Cheesquake today, and did 6 miles yesterday as a sort of punishment to my body for gaining four pounds.

* Drank a load of water to sabotage the weigh in.