One word. OMG! Melissa! OK - that was two words. She is game play all the way. At the very start of this episode, she goes around scolding everybody for keeping Sam when he's their biggest threat. It's in everybody's best interest to keep Stephanie. One threat down, several more to go, right? Guess everybody doesn't have Melissa's way of thinking. They voted based on what they thought was the right thing to do. In retrospect, voting Sam off would be Melissa's "right thing to do." It's all relative.
When it comes to being thrown into something new, the cast can never get a break. This week's challenge has been another new obstacle for everybody to overcome. This time it is a race to see who can be the first person to lose 2% of their body fat. Whoever does it first gets immunity. Anybody can weigh themselves in at any time - but the catch is that you can only weigh in once. If you weigh in too soon and don't meet your requirement, too bad - you're out of the running. For the one that weighs in and makes it, he/she doesn't have to weigh in again with everybody else. Whatever weight he/she was at when they weighed in for the 2% would be used at the weigh in the following week. This means that whoever weighed in early and won would have a few extra days before the next weigh in. How cool is that?
Melissa's mouth takes a trip down rambling lane. Immediately, she starts talking nonsense and is already planning her strategy. Seriously, shut UP Melissa!
Victoria ends up pushing the button first. She's getting way ahead of herself. It's obviously too soon, but we have to remember that she's pretty inexperienced. It's her second week on campus so she is still learning the ropes, learning the games and learning what her body can do (or can't do). Losing 6 pounds in two days is definitely not something her body can do. No way. Instead of 6 pounds, she only loses 3. 3 pounds in two days is pretty good, but not when you're trying to win a challenge like this. Even on the Biggest Loser ranch, you don't lose 6 pounds in 2 days (except if it's your very first week and it's all water weight).
The next challenge is a pool game. Cool! There are a thousand 1-pound pucks at the bottom of the pool. Everybody has to dive down and bring 100 pounds to their scale, and they can only bring two pounds at a time. The winner gets two weeks at the Biggest Loser Resort. The loser gets a 2-pound disadvantage. Here's the kicker - after they finish filling their scale with 100 pounds, they can help out a friend. This goes without saying - nobody's gonna be helping Melissa, that's for sure!
Sunshine starts off with a bang. She is obviously an experienced swimmer and has a huge advantage over the others. During the course of the game, it seems that Melissa is going to finish in third place. O'Neal and Mike are trailing behind her but not by far. This is surprising. Melissa tends to be one of the top competitors in the challenges. I guess she's just not cut out for swimming. With only two people below Melissa, it's almost guaranteed that the others will be helping them out to put Melissa in last place. I bet Sunshine starts helping out Dad as soon as she completes packing on her 100 pounds and the others will be helping Mike. This is practically a no-brainer. Sunshine and Sam are essentially neck and neck throughout the whole challenge. Finally - someone gives Sam a run for his money. It's always awesome to see a girl do just as well as the man next to her, and maybe even surpass him.
Having friends on the show does help, whether anybody wants to admit it or not, and this challenge proves it. Sunshine finished first (yay!) and then started helping her Dad. Everybody else pitched in to help O'Neal and Mike out to put them up above Melissa. Naturally. Melissa kept saying over and over that she wasn't there to make friends and that she doesn't need any friends. Well, there ya go! You accomplished what you set out to do - alienate everybody. How'd that feel? Melissa ends up scolding everybody (again, ahem), this time about helping Mike. Mike is still the biggest person on campus and he's still everybody's biggest threat. According to Melissa, why would anyone want to help their biggest competition?! Well Melissa, it's already been proven that everybody just might have something you don't have...compassion for others.
Again - it's not over for Melissa just yet. Boy, she's been given chances time and time again to stay in the game, huh? Could this be the producers' goal? To keep Melissa in as long as they can? You bet. Drama draws in people (sadly) and the producers are all about the ratings.
Melissa still has the chance to weigh in on the scale for the 2% body fat challenge. Melissa starts her planning and tries to figure out when everybody else will be weighing in. It's her goal to wait as long as she can but to weigh in right before when she thinks somebody else is planning to. The night camera shows Melissa working late at the kitchen table, snacking on something, and finally going to bed around 11pm. She gets up at 3am and worked out until the sun came up. And then..... somebody pushed the button.
As it turns out, Sam hit the button, not Melissa. Sam was pretty smart. He worked out for 3 hours the night before, went to bed and then weighed in first thing in the morning. I'm willing to bet that he peed and pooped as much as he could. He probably also didn't eat breakfast. He needed to lose 6 to make it and he ended up losing 10! 10 pounds in 4 days! After it was determined that immunity was not up for grabs anymore, Melissa started to obsess about the 1 pound disadvantage. She is now worried about whether she'd make it on the scale. Again - Melissa - you had the chance to get up above your obstacles. You just needed friends to help you out. That's down the toilet, so what's left? Nothing.
Dr. Jillian has now announced that O'Neal and Sunshine's father/daughter relationship is unhealthy. Like really? Seriously? They're too close or something like that. Whatever. I guess since Dr. Jillian knows everything, they'd better sit down, talk it out, and solve whatever imaginary problems they have so that they can live a better life. O'Neal acknowledges that he's holding onto Sunshine a little too tight. It's time for him to let go and let Sunshine become her own person. Uh, doesn't every parent go through that? Granted, some are more extreme than others but this hardly calls for a psychological evaluation by Dr. Jillian.
Koli and Daris had bad luck this week with the scale. They had bad numbers (bad by Biggest Loser standards) and the trainers were stumped. They both worked extremely hard and yet, they lost so little. Everybody else had good numbers. A lot of obstacles were overcome this week. Sunshine made it to under 200 pounds and O'Neal passed the 100-pound mark (he has lost 106 to date). Michael lost 8 pounds, bringing his total to 156 pounds in 12 weeks. That's pretty impressive. And finally, Victoria loses 11. Wow. What a great week for most of them.
Drea ends up going under the yellow line with Melissa. Enough said. Melissa only lost 3 and she needed 5 so her one pound disadvantage didn't even hurt her at all. She hurt herself. Could it be her late-night snacking? Probably.
Wow - I just found out during this episode that Melissa is a lawyer. Really!? Well - if I needed a lawyer, I think I might want her on my side, but as an ordinary person she is just plain annoying! Her only argument to save herself from being voted out was game play again. She urged everybody to keep her because she is obviously not a threat and that Drea is. Wouldn't it be so easy to keep Melissa around, not having to worry about her and just one by one, kick everybody off that falls down below her? Right, so easy... but is it right?
Everybody decides to stick with integrity and gets rid of Melissa. The voting was unanimous. Who'd have thunk it? If Melissa had friends, she might not have been voted off. If she had friends, she would have left with hugs and good-byes from everybody. I still wonder... how did she even get married!?
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