The Biggest Loser: The One With all the Trash Talking

Week 3 of The Biggest Loser. This week, they start off with a temptation challenge. They put a ton of Chinese food in front of the contestants and tell them that each team will get 5 minutes in the room with the food. Whichever contestant eats the most calories gets a two pound advantage they can give to anyone, and gets the opportunity to match up each contestant with a head to head challenger from the opposite team. Red team's first, and they decide not to eat anything. Black team decides they want the two pounds and want to be able to match people us, so Cassandra eats two fortune cookies at 60 calories a piece. Obviously, she wins and decides to match people up as:

Her vs. Conda
Chism vs. Kim
Chris vs. Mark
Emily vs. Roy
Gail vs. Kimmy
Jeremy vs. Lauren
Megan vs. Buddy
Joe vs. Nancy


After they are done, they go back to the house and Joe says he is going home because he misses his family. Bob finds out about this, and is insanely mad. Allison tells the teams at their challenge that since Joe left, Nancy automatically wins and gets the point for her team.

For the week's challenge, the teams have to transfer water from a pump to a wheel with buckets, someone catches the water from the bucket and hands it to someone standing at the top of a wall, they pour it to someone below, who carries it to a person standing at the top of a group of gutters to flow down to the person underneath, who has to run and pour it onto a block of ice and get the prize out. Bob and Dolvett get to be there to cheer people on, but can't help. The red team barely beats the black team, winning video chats with their families. Mark immediately gives his chat to his son Chism, and Roy gives his to his wife, Chris. When Dolvett talks to them about how great that was, Buddy explains that Mark is his friend and wants him to have his chat. That was super nice of everyone, and even made me choke up some.

Conda and Cassandra, who are going head to head this week, have a challenge of what are essentially up-downs. Cassandra wins, and Conda says she cheated. They had wagered lunch, so Conda gets her Subway, which gives The Biggest Loser time to plug Subway. I thought that was a strange time to do so, with all the tension between them. They're always so obvious with their plugs, it makes me laugh. Conda challenges Cassandra again, and again she loses. She doesn't think Cassandra cheated this time, so it's okay.

Weigh in time! Cassandra gives one pound to Gail and one to Megan.

Nancy - Starting Weight: 217 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 207 lbs. End of Week Weight: 205 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -2 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: .97% Team Rank: 8th.Total season weight loss: -12 lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 5.53%

Red Team wins point.

Cassandra - Starting Weight: 239 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 220  lbs. End of Week Weight: 212 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -8 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: 3.64% Team Rank: 1st. Total season weight loss: -27  lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 11.30%

Conda - Starting Weight: 294 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 278  lbs. End of Week Weight: 275 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -3 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: 1.08% Team Rank: 7th. Total season weight loss: -19  lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 6.46%

Black Team wins point.

Chism - Starting Weight: 361 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 341  lbs. End of Week Weight: 332 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -9 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: 2.64% Team Rank: 4th. Total season weight loss: -29  lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 8.03%

Kim - Starting Weight: 252 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 236  lbs. End of Week Weight: 230 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -6 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: 2.54% Team Rank: 3rd. Total season weight loss: -22  lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 8.73%

Black Team wins point.

Chris - Starting Weight: 240 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 226  lbs. End of Week Weight: 222 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -4 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: 1.77% Team Rank: 7th. Total season weight loss: -18  lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 7.50%

Mark  - Starting Weight: 291 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 274  lbs. End of Week Weight: 266 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -8 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: 2.92% Team Rank: 2nd. Total season weight loss: -25  lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 8.59%

Red Team wins point.

Emily - Starting Weight: 264 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 250  lbs. End of Week Weight: 244 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -6 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: 2.40% Team Rank: 5th. Total season weight loss: -20  lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 7.58%

Roy - Starting Weight: 306 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 287  lbs. End of Week Weight: 278 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -9 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: 3.14% Team Rank: 1st. Total season weight loss: -28  lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 9.15%

Red Team wins point.

Gail - Starting Weight: 322 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 308  lbs. End of Week Weight: 302 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -6 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: 1.95% Team Rank: 6th. Total season weight loss: -20 lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 6.21%

Kimmy - Starting Weight: 219 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 206  lbs. End of Week Weight: 203 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -3 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: 1.46% 5th. Total season weight loss: -16  lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 7.31%

Black Team wins point.

Jeremy - Starting Weight: 389 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 369 lbs. End of Week Weight: 358 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -11 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: 2.98% Team Rank: 3rd. Total season weight loss: -31  lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 7.97%

Lauren - Starting Weight: 246 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 233  lbs. End of Week Weight: 230 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -3 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: 1.29% Team Rank: 6th. Total season weight loss: -16  lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 6.50%

Black Team wins point.

Megan - Starting Weight: 259 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 248  lbs. End of Week Weight: 240 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -8 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: 3.23% Team Rank: 2nd. Total season weight loss: -19  lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 7.34%

Buddy - Starting Weight: 403 lbs. Beginning of Week Weight: 372  lbs. End of Week Weight: 363 lbs. Weekly Weight Loss: -9 lbs. Weekly weight loss percentage: 2.42% Team Rank: 4th. Total season weight loss: -40  lbs. Total weight loss percentage: 9.93%

Black Team wins point.

Final score, 5-3 Black Team wins. The Red Team voted for a variety of people, but ultimately Lauren is sent home because she hasn't been doing that great and they think she can do well at home. I really don't understand why they didn't send Nancy home, but okay.

Gold star of the week goes to Mark. He got hurt the very first episode, which would give him an easy out, but he hasn't used that excuse and has done really well every week. You can tell he's there to lose weight, not just to support Chism. He tries to motivate his team, but also supports his son on the other team. Good job Mark. Hope you stick around.