Tempers flared in the Biggest Loser house yesterday and one of the contestants gave Angie a real shock. The Brown team went on their first Biggest Loser trek and one of Richard’s team was a changed person!

High Morale

Richard’s team met in the gym and the morale was very definitely high after their recent success. Richard said,

‘I’m extremely happy right now. Everyone’s intact. Come on! Untouchable this week!’

Katey said,

‘I thought I was going home and I went to talk to Richard. He gave me a big motivational speech and my mind was just completely changed. I’ve said this week I’m going to try and be as happy as I can and just enjoy it now!’

She promised Richard 9lbs this week and, during the training she was smiling her head off! Definitely a huge change in her.

Carol said,

‘After Richard talking to Katey there’s just been a complete change around. She’s just a different person today!’

But, the happy mood soon turned to exhaustion when they had finished Richard’s ‘Armageddon’ workout. He worked them hard, got in their faces and pushed them to their limits. The pain and effort they were putting in was evident on their faces and Richard worked them almost til they dropped!

Sicknote

Jamie has got problems with his chest and he saw the doctor yesterday. Because he has given up smoking he has had a bad cough. He has bruised all the muscles around his lungs through coughing where his body is trying to clear out all the rubbish from the cigarettes. Angie said,

‘I’m feeling concerned. Desperately concerned now because we’re into week three and he’s ill still. You know, every week with him it’s something and it’s getting extremely frustrating. Something’s not adding up for me. It’s a difficult one because I think that he’s using it as a bail out, personally,’

Jamie explained to Angie about what the doctor had said and that he wouldn’t be able to train for a couple of days. He said he would be back in the gym as soon as he could to ‘work his little legs off’. Angie said,

‘As far as Jamie goes, I’m about to lose it now. I’m actually about to lose it. Because I’m just thinking, what can I do?’

She told Jamie she was going to call him Sicknote from now on. Then, to add fuel to Angie’s fire, Sadie said her IBS was playing up. Miriam said,

‘I did think she was going to flip her lid totally!’

And of course, there was the issue with Eunice . . .

Leaving

Eunice had taken medical advice and was going to have to drop out of the competition for the time being. She was hoping to get the health problem sorted so she could return but, until then Miriam would have to work twice as hard as she would be doing it for them both!

Angie was devastated to be losing Eunice because she said she had been phenomenal since day one. Angie said she believed in Eunice 100%. Eunice said she definitely wanted to come back because she had lost 16lbs in two weeks and wanted to continue that.

Miriam said she knew what she was in for but that Eunice was the stronger of the two. Angie told her,

‘Yeah but hang on, you’re getting stronger by the minute,’

As Miriam and Eunice left Angie in the kitchen she looked totally devastated and she put her head in her hands. Eunice will be missed by Angie but, also by the rest of the contestants. Kevin said,

‘I called her my ‘on-screen wife’. Whenever we had problems we talked to each other about it and it would sort us out. I’m going to miss her – very much,’

Eunice leaving left a bit of a cloud over the house. It almost drove Michaela to chocolate! Here’s hoping Eunice will be able to return.

All in all, Angie wasn’t doing very well with her team so far. She said,

‘I’m starting to freak. I can’t take any more. I can’t. I feel like I’m working with the walking wounded. Feel like I might as well have gone to Casualty and picked my team. Unless the doctor signs you off personally to me I don’t want to hear it!’

Mystery Solved

Angie felt there was something going wrong with Jennifer and Sadie for Jennifer to have only lost 1lb after all her hard work last week. So, she decided to check up on them at lunch time to see what they were eating. She walked into the kitchen and, oh my, did the brown stuff hit the fan!

She took one look at Jennifer’s plate and lost it! Jennifer had a plate full of chicken breast which is protein and no carbohydrates and very little in the way of veg. Angie said,

‘So what’s the deal? This is what’s going wrong. This is where we’re going wrong. Where’s the veg? Why are you eating so much protein? You’re not playing by the rules!’

The contestants have spent time with show nutritionist Ailsa Higgins who has told them that they should only eat a fist sized portion of protein and a fist sized portion of carbs in each meal. But, added to that they can pretty much have as much veg as they like. The idea behind the fist sized portions is that your fist is in proportion to your own body. These are the rules each contestant should be sticking to.

Angie went on to ask what Jennifer had for dinner the night before and Jennifer replied she’d had steak. She asked the size and it was definitely larger than her fist. She asked her why she hadn’t cut it in half and Jen replied,

‘I guess I was being greedy,’ just like a petulant teenager!

Angie said to her,

‘You can see how everyone else eats in this house. You’re not doing it. You know you’re eating too much don’t you?’

Jennifer replied,

‘I never thought I was eating too much Ange, honestly,’

Angie replied,

‘Look at me. You know that that you just cooked was too much food. Yes or no?’

Jennifer,

‘Yes,’

Angie,

‘So why did you do it? Do you want to go home? Are you trying to get yourself sent home? Why are you saying that you want to lose weight when everything you’re doing is opposite and, you know the thing I’m most angry about? Is what you’re doing to Sadie. You are dragging her down!’

Angie said later,

‘These rules are there because it works. That’s why we do it. It’s working for other people who are sticking to it. She’s not sticking to it then wonders why she’s lost a pound. It’s just insanity really!’

Miriam said to Jennifer later,

‘She’s only having a go because she wants you to stay in. She wouldn’t actually even bother coming in here and yelling and screaming at you if she didn’t give a s**t,’

The Biggest Loser Trek

Mark and Kevin went on their first Biggest Loser trek last night. They had to search the 50 acre estate to find the instructions that give the power to affect everyone in the Biggest Loser house. Kevin said,

‘I just hope it’s something that could bring some good stuff to all the teams really,’

Mark agreed that he thought they all needed some positivity. Kevin said,

‘Yeah, something to cheer them up. Get people together a bit more. You know, when they’ve got problems you have to talk to each other,’

When they found the instructions, Kevin sighed and said that it was going to shake things up just a little bit.

They had been given two spinning bikes. They had to choose which couple they were going to give them to. That couple would keep them in their room and the Browns had to make sure the couple they chose did at least 20 minutes every night on the bikes for the next week. But, they were not allowed to keep the bikes themselves.

The Browns felt that these bikes would be an incredible advantage to the couple they chose but that some would see it as a chore.

Me, Me, Me!

When Kevin and Mark told the other contestants about the bikes, Jamie was the first to pipe up and say that they would have them. Kevin said later,

‘The first people to say, oh we’ll have them, were the Grey team. And I can see where it could be beneficial to them. But, I might be hitting my plateau this week with my weight loss and if anyone’s going to beat us it’s going to be those guys because they’ve been working really really tough,’

Sadie said she’d have them and Carol and Katey said they would move the beds out of their room to make room for the bikes if need be! But, Jennifer said she didn’t really want them because she was too tired.

The Browns decided to give the bikes to the Green team – Carol and Katey. Carol said,

‘We’re absolutely made up. Really thrilled about it. Was kind of hoping it would be me and Kate but I knew they had a lot of other people to consider,’

Mark said,

‘Katey’s found a new lease of life and I want to build on that and wanted to do something positive for her,’

It’s the challenge next time. Who will win immunity? The Browns could be immune for the third week running. Although, with the numbers they had last week, they may not need it!