By David McAlpine

Last time on The Biggest Loser, all the contestants revamped their personal images with the help of Project Runway's Tim Gunn. With the time to work out severely minimized, Laura's hip buckled under the pressure and she was eliminated over Kristin.

After last week's elimination, Kristin is glad just to be the game, while Tara is distraught that Laura is gone. I can tell that Tara is going to be able to focus a lot more now that Laura is out, which is going to make her a force to be reckoned with.

Tara confronts Jillian about her telling Mike to send Laura home when she knew that Tara needed her support. Jillian gives Tara a well-deserved reality check, letting her know that keeping Laura was a selfish move. Bob also has a heart-to-heart with Kristin, when he tells her she needs to confront her fears of failing. It's obvious Kristin wants to make it to the end, but crying and wanting it isn't going to make it happen, which is what Bob seems to be trying to tell her.

Challenge time! Good Housekeeping's editor, Rosemary Ellis, is on hand with Alison to ask the contestants four questions about health. The person with the most correct wins a trip for two to New York. Mike, Ron and Kristin take an early lead, but ultimately Mike and Kristin tie. For the tiebreaker, Mike and Kristin had to guess how many calories were in a fast food fish sandwich (which I assumed was around 850). Kristin guesses 435 and Mike guesses 635, only 5 off from the real answer: 640. Mike wins and Kristin is (understandably) upset.

Bob is upset, too, at the lack of nutritional knowledge of his team. He gives them the job of filming a video journal of their meals for a day. Mike decides to flip the tables on Jillian, giving her a lesson on how to stay healthy in college. And, how convenient, he can do it using Ziploc Zip 'n Steam bags! Trust me, there are healthier ways to eat in college than to be steaming chicken and vegetables in plastic bags in your microwave.

For their second challenge, the Biggest Loser contestants have to face one of their biggest fears: heights. Each contestant will be suspended 45 feet in the air in a cage, where they will each be holding one end of the rope that is holding them up. Letting go of the rope drops their cage, eliminating them from the competition. Last one standing wins $10,000 or a one pound advantage at the next weigh-in.

When the competition starts, two things are abundantly clear: one, the rope goes through a couple pullies, so by the laws of physics, the contestants aren't even holding up half their body weight. Two: the "height" is overdramatized because the "drop" is about a foot before they're lowered safely and slowly onto the ground. Mike drops first because he doesn't want to deal with the height, followed by Ron. Filipe starts shaking the whole apparatus, then falls. Kristin falls soon after, leaving Tara and Helen to battle it out. Helen tries to make a deal with Tara, but Tara won't do it. Helen falls and Tara is (surprise, surprise) crowned the winner.

Bob looks at his team's food diary and is not amused. He's very critical of their food choices and upset that they don't know better when it comes to calorie counting and protein.

Onto the last chance workout, where everyone seems to be struggling. Helen starts to push back when Jillian gets really intense, but Jillian won't let her give up. Mike works up the courage to talk to his father and asks him how he let him get so big. Ron tells Mike he has every right to be mad at him and tries to explain his problems as a child, too.

At the weigh-in, everyone is anxious to see what Tara will choose: $10,000 or a one pound advantage. Tara takes the $10,000 (I would have, too), then steps on the scale, where Alison gives her the chance to change her mind. Tara doesn't and ends up losing 5 pounds, which makes her ecstatic. The results of the weigh-in are as follows:

Mike: -8 (-3.29%)
Tara: -5 (-2.75%)
Ron: -4 (-1.32%)
Filipe: -3 (-1.21%)
Helen: -1 (-0.62%)
Kristin: +1 (+0.41%)

Ron breaks the 300 pound barrier, which he hasn't been at since he was in his teens. Kristin is flabbergasted and can't explain why she gained weight.

Before deliberation, Helen and Kristin both plead their cases. They both don't want to go home and neither seems to have a better point than the other. Kristin pulls aside Ron and reminds him of the promise he made to her mother that he would never vote her off. He tells her he'll honor the deal.

Then, Ron and Mike get super shady, which I definitely knew would happen sooner than later. Ron and Mike plan to tie the vote so Ron wouldn't have to vote Kristin out, but she would go home anyway because she's the biggest threat to Mike in the house (which I don't get, she's losing the overall weight tally by a good margin). This just gives me more reason to dislike Mike and Ron.

Tara makes it clear she needs Helen for support in the house, so she votes for Kristin. Filipe makes the same case for Kristin and votes Helen off. Ron feeds us the same BS that he can never write Kristin's name down (but he can plot her demise, of course), so he votes Helen. Mike makes his a "personal decision" and votes for Kristin, eliminating her from the game. It's obvious to everyone that Ron and Mike planned to tie the vote, but they deny it, only adding insult to injury.

Back at home, Kristin says that she may not have won The Biggest Loser, but she's winning at life because she feels she has control back. While working out, she has worked as a motivational speaker to try and inspire others to start their own weight-loss journey. Having lost more weight while at home, Kristin hopes to be under 200 pounds by the Biggest Loser finale.

The Biggest Loser: Couples 2 airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on NBC.

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