I love the challenges where they have to carry all the weight they’ve lost.  It’s such a huge lesson that your body was lugging around all that weight everyday.  Their poor bodies.  

You know, I figured out what I don’t like about Tara.  It’s a totally vain and shallow thing.  You ready for this?  I don’t like her mouth and teeth.  I hate looking at her because of it.  Shocked right?  How could I be so petty?  I just am.  But I tell you I’m pretty sure that girl is going to win.  Every challenge she wipes the floor with the other competitors.  Even if she is behind like she was last night she musters the strength and blows them away.  She’s a great competitor I just wish she wouldn’t cry so much.  Oh, there I go again.  I don’t know why but I am just against this girl no matter what she does right.

I haven’t watched too many seasons so I wasn’t expecting the Train the Trainers afternoon.  I will say I thoroughly enjoyed it until Jillian admitted she didn’t want to be pushed any further than I lost a little respect for her.  It was great to see Bob and Jillian sweating buckets though.

Then there’s Felipe and no matter how much I love him he’s just not that great a competitor.  I don’t remember him winning anything.  If Sione was around he’d give Tara a run for her money but Felipe just doesn’t have that drive.  I’m so proud of him for focusing though and losing 10 pounds.  That was incredible.  Too bad it wasn’t enough.

And of course everyone is going to kick off Felipe.  As we saw on Survivor last week no one wants to keep the good competition around.  The good competition wants to stick around of course, but no one in their right mind (and I mean you Coach) actually wants to be pitted against someone who could beat them.  They want to win.  And with Ron around they could win spectacularly.

Felipe proved again that he doesn’t have the drive to win when he didn’t lose very much weight at home.  I’m a little disappointed in him but I can’t say I wasn’t expecting it.  I’m sorry that his dad had a stroke but I’m really happy that Felipe got a wake up call and I love that he’s teaching a class in his backyard.  Felipe is still my favorite player from this season and I think it’s clear he just needs to find his own path.  I sure hope he’s found it.  I want to see him do great things.

I’m really happy that there will be another elimination before the final three.  What a good chance, hopefully, to prove you really can do this at home.  I’m glad there has been so much emphasis on that in this season.  It’s been pretty inspiring.

Who’s going home next week?  We’ll have two below the line and two above.  My guess is Mike and Tara will be above and Ron and Helen below.  Mike obviously is not going to vote for his dad so who will Tara vote for?  The weakest link again?  I really despise him but at this point it looks like Ron is going to the finals.  All his scheming and conniving has paid off.  Unless of course Tara keeps Helen because she’s closer to her.  I don’t know, I have too many scenarios playing through my mind right now.

Who’s going home next week?

The Biggest Loser is on Tuesdays at 8pm on NBC.