I'm still rooting for Abbey. She hasn't got a lot of face time yet so I'm hoping that means she'll be there awhile yet.

I wanted 'America's pick" to go home.(can't even think of her darn name) lol

Overall, a disappointing episode. Hardly any trainer reactions to anything. Maybe it was while I was fast-forwarding, but did they even show Bob's reaction to Mo being sent home last week instead of Tracey? I saw the reaction of the other team, and Tracey's annoying waterworks (not even two min into the show!), but not the trainers. I have to say I don't love the 'going home' episodes. It's just a lot of crying and talking about how they have to change their families, blah blah blah. They show them eating a bunch of garbage or their struggle working out at home. I have to say, after working out every single day for six weeks, you really SHOULD be able to manage to get a great workout on your own at the gym. Danny sure did - he was sweating and working just as hard at home as he does on the ranch. For Amanda to be wandering aimlessly in the gym? What the heck was that?? Does anyone know if they are prohibited from employing a personal trainer during their week home? If I was going home for a week, I'd drop $500 to have someone work me out like a dog three or four hours a day.

I think voting Dina off was definitely the work of secret alliances going on. I personally think it should have been Shay - HOW she is not losing huge weight is beyond me. I remember Tara consistently losing huge numbers, and she was nowhere near as big as Shay. Really, the pounds should be pouring off her by now. She must not be adhering to her diet or workout routine. I don't see her making it in the real world at all and that makes me so sad when I think of Antoine and Seans sacrifice for her.

Well, I think I watched about 30 min total in this episode - had to fast forward through the family tears and all of Tracey's "the world revolves around me!" speeches. God they give her WAAAAY too much camera time. I hope next week's is better!

Good Am,

I haven't read all thirteen pages so some of this might be redundant. Anyway, first off, saw Coach Mo on the Today Show yesterday am. He looks great but admitted he does have some serious injuries that would have prevented him from giving it all at the ranch.

Now for this week, I don't fully understand how the elimination went down. That said, Dina's son was precious, but her and Shay's husbands were not really supportive of them especially at the restaurants. Unless the whole family changes its' habits, the contestant is due to fail.

Way to go Danny. What an impressive weight loss. With support like that at home, you will be just fine when you are home for good.

Bye til next week.

1. Shay, at 400+lbs, is happy losing 5lbs then complains about the 200+lb girl losing only 4lbs!?
2. Fact: Daniel should have been voted off. 2nd time around. No excuse for +1lb at his age & experience.
3. I'm no longer upset at Tracey. If Blue Team is feeble enough to keep her on, then I hope they go first.
4. The previews are always cutoff on my DTV DVR just after the hour. I need to record Jay Leno to see it.

Did he elaborate on the injuries?

Is she turning into one who must not be named like the one a couple of seasons ago whose name begins with a V?

I am wondering why the black team members were shocked when they got on the scales. These people who got sent home for a week had to know somewhat a little of their progress. Most of them have scales in their bathroom. I bet you anything they got on the scale each morning and checked their progress. I know I would.

I don't believe he elaborated, but didn't he have knee and back problems while on show? He is a real inspiration to all of us.

Last night was really uneventful.

I wasn't surprised to see Dina voted off since she didn't see to quite fit in with everyone else. Daniel is very supportive to his team mates so I understand why they wanted to keep him around. Not sure why Amanda slipped under the radar because I think next to Daniel she is the weakest link on the black team. Shay and Danny are the heavy weights so it's easy to see why they are there. I find the black team to have big hearts and lots of emotion while the blue team appears to be the game players plus they got Tracey and Liz who are both major drama queens.

Overall I'm just not finding anyone on either team to be very inspiring yet compared to previous seasons. Heck, we are almost 1/2 way through this season and none of them stand out except in the drama department.

Good point! I have really had it with Shay. She complains about everyone and everything and probably does the least amount of work - next to Amanda. She has no real drive or fire in her to do the work and take full advantage of the incredible opportunity she has been given.

Yes I think it was, as I have encountered this vry issue in the past, and is the reason I dropped my membership at the heathclub. Her reaction, and feelings are what many of us feel. If that message gets out to some of the sobs at these heathclubs, that may change the way they look at us bigger people hen we are there trying to better ourselves...

LOL, my husband was thinking the samething last night!!!

Shay need to get voted off. She is ripping others for their weight loss when she only drops 5? And she is worthless or a liability in all challenges. She still has so much weight to lose if one of the trainers gets through to her, she will be a force in the later weeks. (I personally think she NEVER will wise up). ANd why is she always playing the alone card? She has a family at home - but the kids didn't seem too happy to see her.

The only people I am rooting for is Rudy, Abbey, and Dina.

A 7 year old boy was killed in a horrible accident here last Spring because his father took him into a gym though it was against the rules and he had been told repeatedly not to do it. (Of course the gym has closed and is probably being sued.) Showing Dina's son in the gym and riding an apparatus was really irresponsible. Gyms are no place for children. Here a kid has to be 13 and some of the smaller ones look at risk to me trying to lift weights. Parents don't always make the best decisions.

I totally "got" Daniel. My mother had me on diet foods at 14 and I wasn't even fat! I just wasn't her body type - she was lucky to reach 100 pounds and tiny. It really affected how I felt about myself for my entire life and she pushed diets on me for over 40 years. Then I got very thin nursing my 2nd child and I was "too skinny". Don't get me wrong, she was a lovely person, but she really had a hang-up about my size no matter what I did.

I hate product placement and would boycott the products but I am a vegan anyway - LOL. Best thing I ever did.

Dina looked great. Loved the makeover. Guess she wasn't making very interesting TBL episodes. I can't wait for the makeovers and end show, but other than that I'm DVRing the epis and fast forwarding through most of the show. I feel it should be more like Survivor. Show the challenges, some working out and info, then the weigh ins. The other stuff is just garbage. First commercial break, I clocked it at 5 minutes in. Sheeeee!

What, exactly, has Tracy done to deserve such vitriol? She put Amanda on the scale instead of Rebecca because the pink team REFUSED to give her anything in return for the favor they were asking. Rebecca refusing to promise not to vote for me in exchange for putting her instead of Amanda on the scale would have sufficiently angered me to do exactly as Tracy did with no apologies whatsoever. Rebecca obviously has never heard the term quid pro quo. Like it or not, that is how we humans do things - you scratch my back, I scratch yours, and if you don't want to scratch my back, forget about me scratching yours. Of course, it is different with people who are close to you - you pretty much have to do things for close friends or relatives without asking for a favor in return, but that isn't the case here. Tracy just met Rebecca, and didn't owe her diddly squat. Rebecca had nerve to ask for a favor if she wasn't willing to give back in return.

Who knows why she put Shay on the scale instead of Daniel - maybe that was mean-spirited, but we don't exactly know the whole story.

And the way that she split the teams - maybe she has her reasons. Maybe she saw that Liz was entirely too reliant on Danny, and wanted to see her stand on her own two feet. After all, Liz isn't going to have Danny at home. Maybe the same thing with Amanda - Amanda was entirely too reliant on Bob, and Tracy wanted Amanda to stand on her own two feet as well. In other words, maybe she formed the teams with the best of intentions.

At any rate, she doesn't come close, IMHO, to the evil that is Vicky and Heba. Those two were aggressive, sneaky, and out and out mean. Tracy hasn't been mean to anyone. She hasn't talked smack about anyone. She hasn't yelled at anyone, or tried to cause divisions in the house the way that V and H did.

And you forgot to mention Heather and Kai from season 3. Never have I disliked a contestant as much as I disliked Heather, who ripped a poor girl a new one in the very first episode with a tantrum never seen before or since. That girl didn't deserve it, and got voted out because the mean girl bloc was already formed between Heather, Kai and Pam, but the girl got the last laugh, as she looked gorgeous, I mean gorgeous, at the finale. Can't remember her name, though. All I remember is that is a former model and seemed to be hispanic.

Here's the link to my blog post: Biggest Loser Season 8, Episode 6 Re-Cap: Dina: A Mother Finds her Inner Strength

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The post also includes my handy-dandy, all encompassing chart including height, weight, percentages, BMI, etc.

Enjoy :-)

Jennifer
aka, Lost100

WHAT ABOUT DANNY!???

Danny is my favorite on the show. He is one of the only ones who went home &&& DIDNT go out to a restraunt with friends/family. Why would they go to a restraunt when they are suppose to be loosing AS MUCH WEIGHT AS POSSIBLE!???? Although they ordered food, it's still NOT the best possible. Danny is a strong man & I think he has what it takes to be the biggest looser.

I loved how he was tempted to hangout & go to the zoo with his family, but told his daughter he couldn't because he might not be able to spend minutes with her now...but it will add on years. He is truely there to loose weight and I was so happy how much weight he lost at home.

DANNY RULES!!!

I agree but why did the family HAVE to go to the zoo while he was home? Couldn't they have gone to a park or a track and done something together?
MJ

You're way off if you think people (sobs) at the gym are looking at you with disdain. Stop looking for excuses.

You can adjust your end time ( a couple of minutes should do) on your DVR to catch those last moments of the show. I always forget to do it, so I missed some stuff too.

I thought the same thing. I hope she has a better relationship with the kids than it appeared on the show last night. I hope Shay does well on this show.

But at least when she left to go back to the ranch, they were crying and seemed really sad to see her leave..............

I didn't care for Shay last night. I mean Dina wasn't my favorite either but I think Dina got it that it's about you having to do the work,putting in the effort to reach your goals.

Shay should have gone home IMO. She is far too dependent on others getting her at a healthier verison of herself. She's not taking the responsability seriously I don't think.

Danny rocked it last night

I was not at all surprised that Dina went home last night. If you watch the shows closely, you will have noticed that Daniel, Shay, Amanda, and Rebecca had already formed a pretty tight alliance before the teams split into black and blue. So, I know that Shay,Daniel, and Amanda will hang together when voting. This is a warning for Abby and Danny...they better stay above the yellow line. I believe that this alliance will vote them off, even though they are the strongest members of the team.
I am not positve if Abby is a part of this alliance yet, even though she voted with them last night. She could have been thinking that if those three had voted for Dina, and everyone else had voted for Daniel, the blue team, (being the tiebreaker) would have voted her (Abby) off because Danny had immunity, and Abby was the next strongest on the weight loss. Knowing this, she may have swung with the "alliance" to save herself, but I don't think they will try to save her in the long run.

OMG!!! I don't know if you're from OK or not, but I am and when I saw that, I was shocked. My brother called me and I answered the phone by saying "that is SO not where Tulsa is". Many of my friends who are watching said the same thing and we wondered if anyone from outside of the state knows it.

Whoa!!! She got a footlong VEGGIE sub with the inside bread taken out. Go look at subway's website and see how many calories are in that. A 6 inch veggie sandwich has 230 calories and that includes the whole wheat bread. A 6 inch honey oat has 260 calories and she took out the inside so that will reduce the calories (I may try this) and got a footlong. She does get to eat calories, you know so stop judging. Geez!!!

On the contrary, there are people looking at overweight folks with disdain. I see it all the time.

If those players do have an alliance, then the black team will continue to lose weigh-ins, especially if they vote out their strongest players - Danny and Abbey. So, good luck to them.... they're going to need it because none of them are doing all that well!

They might not have seen happy on her arrival, but they were in tears seeing her leave....

I thought Shay looked incredibly uncomfortable around the kids. She never touched them and, it seemed to me, didn't want to be around them.

I think what many may be forgetting is that these are step children. Not all step children take to a step parent quickly. Many resent the step parent even if that step parent had nothing to do with the break of of the parent's marriage. We don't know the whole story here with Shay and her step children, but I got the impression that they aren't with their father and Shay all the time and I don't believe anything has been said about how long they have been her step children. That relationship may be very new, it may not. But if it is new, they all could still be trying to figure out how to work the relationship out.

Just some thoughts.

I'll have to figure out how to do that on the DirectTV system. Thanks for the info.

So what? Is that a reason to stop bettering yourself just because you THINK that someone finds you disgusting? If so, that's more than an excuse, it's a load of

I’m confused.

The first 5 weeks of BL8 have shown Shay time and time again talking about how “she has no one at home”. Other contestants have also commented that “Shay has no support system at home”. This seemed to be a contributing factor as to why she wasn’t voted to go home back in week 3.

Then, as if by magic….Shay goes home for a week……and SURPRISE…she not only has a husband, but two step-sons as well. He may not be supportive or understanding, but he’s not invisible.

What is that about? Shay is not one of my favorite players….she needs to quit her complaining and start doing.

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I think Shay is full of..... well, something I can't say on here!!

I wondered about that also, I am suprised that more people have not commented on this also.

How can you say that Abby is the next strongest? She has a tibia injury that is limiting the amount and intensity of exercise that she can do?

Maybe their comments were deleted. As you can see, after my post the "moderator rules of posting" were listed.

I wondered about this too. If you go to her bio the last sentence mentions a husband and boys. I do not recall her ever mentioning them on the show.
MJ

forgive me if someone posted this already. How Dina reacted to her being voted off.
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Don't take it personally - most of those rule postings have nothing to do with the immediate previous post, but are a reminder to people whose posts have already been removed for those very reasons listed.


We discussed this in several other episode threads, as well as on Shay's thread, I believe. Yeah, most of us were surprised that they kept saying on the show that she had no one at home, when her bio clearly says she had a husband and boys (well, stepsons).

Believe me, no one is "looking at you" any more than they would be looking at any new person at the gym. The only people who get a second look are those who are dressed over the top or out of place or the hot chic wearing hardly anything.

If you look at who has the highest weight loss percentages so far, Rudy is 1st, then Abby, then Danny, and then Allen.

^^^So, basically, pretty much all the people who keep their mouths shut and do the work. Good for them.

She may well have a husband and two kids at home, but they may not be a "support system". Not all family members, although loving and caring, are supportive. Some are enablers, and some can be outright saboteurs. I'm not a Shay fan, but I have to cut her some slack on this one....

Actually I was wondering that since the air showed. No one mentioned them in the previous posts.

thanx, good to know

yes , which is why i said "He may not be supportive or understanding, but he’s not invisible."