By Carrie Falquist of realityofweighting.com

The two remaining women on the Bigget Loser Campus definitely felt the pressure after Brittany was sent packing last week.  With the blue team's alliance, it pretty much goes without saying that if a woman is stuck below the yellow line with another member of the blue team, she might as well just pack her bags and go.

 

Now, anyone who watches the show knows that this alliance is in essence the blue team shooting itself in the foot.  Keeping the bigger threats around, and sending people like Brittany home does not increase the chances for the remaining members to take home the quarter mil grand prize.

 

This week, Ali and Kelly were determined to stay above that yellow line, and Jillian worked them hard.   They took the attitude I've been waiting for, which was "I may not win, but I'm going to go down swinging."   While the remaining cast members milled around the kitchen one evening, Allison Sweeney came in and let them know that they were to meet her in the elimination room in five minutes.

 

Enter challenge number one for this episode.  A pop quiz.  Allison read off questions, and only those who got the right answer moved on to the next level.  This ended up being a very short game, and the winner by default was Dan, who was only off by 50% when it came to the numbers in a cup of fat free strawberry yogurt.  He guessed 100, and the correct answer was 200.  He won a piece of 600 calorie chocolate cake. 

 

In order to use the cake at the next challenge, he had to protect it and bring it with him.  So Dan carried around this silver tray with a piece of cake on it everywhere.  He took it to the gym with him, and talked to it at dinner.  (Kind of reminded me of a warped version of Castaway, but instead of a volleyball named Wilson, we had a piece of chocolate cake at fat camp.)   What Dan did not do, however, was bring his cake with him when he went to do a little extra cardio the evening before the reward challenge.

 

As he was out walking, Roger comes running out to tell him his cake is gone.  *Panic*  What ensues are some passive aggressive jabs towards Dan's lack of  domestic skillls and hygene, "I would have hid it in the dishwasher, Dan would never look there." or "Maybe the laundry room, when was the last time you washed your hoodie, Dan?"  Apparently Dan doesn't clean up after himself or wash his clothes very often.

 

Yummy.

 

The laundry room won out, where Dan's precious cake was found nestled under a bag of what looked like dirty socks.  Mmmmm, that's what I like with my cake... rank, old socks.  You go Dan, you showed everyone that you are certainly the "smartest guy in the house."

 

Come to find out that it was Roger who hid the cake, wanting to give Dan a little lesson on game play.  Hey Roger, let me explain a little something to you, genius.   In order to ensure that you're going to come into some big cash come finale time, it's usually a good idea to vote out those who STILL HAVE A LOT OF WEIGHT TO LOSE so they are not in direct competition with you for the $250,000!   So, just an idea, but let's keep Mark and Ali around for sure, because they just don't have the body weight left to show up at the finale and take the money.

 

Well, unless you (Roger) or Jay go home and eat nothing but Twinkies and cheeseburgers, but I doubt that will happen.

 

Ok, back to the game.  Our challenge took place in a large arena, where concession snack vendors were place strategically throughout the venue.  Every cast member had a table, and everyone was to run up the stadium stairs, grab one concession snack (popcorn, pizza, cotton candy, hot dogs, ice cream, peanuts, pretzels), run down, and place it on another teammate's table.

 

In the end, the person with the least number of calories on their table wins $10,000. 

 

This game was lame, and pointless.  The guys just piled the food on the girls' tables, taking bites of pizza here, knoshing on hot dogs, and behaving like a bunch of jerks, if you want the opinion of someone (me) who was watching from home.   I think confidence is attractive, and arrogance is nauseating.    They should have had the guys sit out, stuff their faces with pizza and dogs, while the girls strategically put food on their tables.  It was essentially what happened anyway.

 

Jay ended up winning the $10,000 and was given the option of a one pound pass in exchange for the money. 

 

The way the guys played this game got under the skin of Ali and Kelly, mostly Ali who was just disgusted with their behaviour.    The girls came together, and pushed themselves as hard as they could, hoping that by some stretch of incredible luck, they would both stay above the yellow line, and force the guys to send someone home. 

 

Guys weighed in first, pulling respectable numbers until they got to Dan.   If he could have, I am willing to bet that Dan would have been kicking his own butt for eating that pizza, popcorn and other fatty, sodium laden treats during the challenge.  Because 12 weeks into the program, when your body has been steadily losing week after week, you are bound to hit a wall.   Not pushing himself to his limits physically, and indulging in those extra bites ensured this was his week to get stuck.  He lost one pound.  One. 

 

Ali and Kelly pulled in some fantastic numbers, putting them in first and second place, respectively.  Now, THIS is good TV folks.  These two women, one of which looks amazingly tiny already, pulled enough weight off to push two of the men under the yellow line.    After all the preening that came from the guys' end about how they work so well as a team, and hinting that it is their game play, not the fact that Bob stacked the heck out of his team with the most overweight men he could that has kept this group on campus.

 

Sorry, but the black team, with the smaller guys and majority of women was pegged as the underdogs right away.

 

Last night, they triumphed and it felt good.

 

Voting went as expected, with Dan going home.  The guys could talk about teamwork, and Mark's big sacrifice weeks ago all they want, but duh... he weighs 185 lbs.  He doesn't have much chance to go home and drop 4-5 pounds a week until the finale if he makes it to the final four.    Dan still has some weight to drop, so he posed the bigger threat.

 

At home, Dan's taken off another 12 or 13 pounds, packed up his guitar and headed to LA to pursue his dream of being a musician.    His mom, Jackie couldn't be prouder.  I'm assuming she hopes he does well, because I am betting that she bankrolled this little move across the country.  LA isn't exactly the cheapest town to live in, and preparing for the finale would take away the hours needed to hold down a steady job.... hmmm.  He seems to have delved headfirst into promoting his single.  I got an invitation to befriend him on Myspace just today.  Work it, Dan!

 

I personally think he should write a song about cutting his hair.  There's a hit for you!  "Oh, it ain't fair... I got voted off... after I cut my hair.... I'm pushing through... I thought you knew... me and my tattoo...because I'm a ROCKSTAR!"


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