Previously on The Biggest Loser, Sam turned Red all over and Blue lost the weigh in, leading to Debbie’s elimination from the game.

Tonight, Blue gets involved in a bit of push and shove, or mostly John and Shannan get in some manly posturing.
What’s it all about? Find out tonight… maybe!

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Red’s having lunch and cheering for the fact they’re not in the elimination room for once. Sam tells his new Red Team that it’d be Debbie or Sean going home.
Blue comes out and Debbie’s missing, they tell Red that Debbie decided she wanted to go and they honoured that.
Alison says, “She wasn’t sad, she wasn’t down, she was just ready to go.”
John says the elimination has brought the reality home to them.
Garry says the Blue Team will find it tough now, after losing Debbie, since John and Sean both have injuries.
Michael says they’ve gone from sitting pretty and looking strong and now they’ve gone down to… Three, Kirsten says. Which is to say, three able-bodied members.

Kirsten, Alison and Michael are sitting in the trophy room for a chat and Michael points out the team is split.
Sean’s quite upset, apparently. John decided that Sean needed some time away from everyone. So they left the room.
Michael says that Sean was upset, but you add John to it and Sean goes from being upset to hysterical.
Kirsten says that John feels like he’s the protector of the team, the leader of the team, which clouds his judgement.
Alison says to the others that she thinks John is trying to do the best thing for Sean. Michael thinks it’s about 50-50, 50% of it is about him getting his point across and marking his territory as alpha male and only 50% about whatever Sean’s issue is.
Alison is unimpressed as well, she thinks John needs to stop trying to take control of every situation.

Shannan rocks up and finds three of his team in the trophy room. “Three?! Triple elimination?!” They quickly set him straight though.

And it’s at about this point I realise my PVR hasn’t started recording properly. Damn it all to hell! So I’ve missed a bit here, sorry about that. I’ll see what I can do about getting a copy of the bit I missed. Or someone can fill me in on if there was anything very important there at all. I suspect I didn’t actually miss too much of importance…

(With thanks to sodo, here is the bit that was missing.)

Debbie’s gone home. Debbie wanted to go home. Shannan says Debbie missed her family and the intensity of the House was just too much for her.
Blue tell Shannan that Sean wants to go home as well. They explain that he’s gone for a walk and John’s taken off after him. John thinks Sean maybe needs to talk to a psychologist or something. And, as Michael says, John put his hand up.
Shannan knows this is not the situation that they need to be in if they’re going to win this weigh in. It’s the worst possible situation for them to be in.
He says to Blue that he’d better go find Sean because the best person for him to speak to is probably Shannan.

We get a bit with Sean saying it was a very emotional day. He looked over during elimination and saw Sam’s cabinet, and he should have been in the room with them and now they were saying goodbye to another Blue.
The pressure got to him and he just wanted some space, so he and John ended up down at the gazebo, hoping nobody would bother them down there. Which is where Shannan finds them. And John begins to go into his own meltdown…

(End missing bit. Thanks sodo!)

In any event, as we come back from an ad break, Shannan says that Sean has had some kind of meltdown so he goes off to find him.
Shannan heads into a pergola and you can hear John telling him not to come in right now, seriously. Shannan bows and heads in anyway. As Shannan walks in, John jumps up and heads right for him and starts telling the cameras to go away.
Shannan in an aside says that he needs to reinforce the situation to John that he’s the Blue Trainer, it’s his team, it’s time for John to back down. He thinks John was just trying to protect Sean, but his method was all wrong. The situation needed calming down, not firing up. Shannan’s priority is Sean’s wellbeing.
Shannan asks Sean what’s happened, Sean’s not up to talking right away so Shannan tells him to take his time.
In the diary room Sean tells us that the game is getting to him. He doesn’t understand the politics of the game side of things and never has, he just wants to lose weight and get fit and healthy.

Shannan says that when he sat with Sean he literally couldn’t speak, he was just a ball of emotion.
Shannan thinks Sean is spiralling out of control and he just needed someone to put things back into perspective for him.
Sean says he hasn’t done enough for the team, hasn’t lost enough weight. Shannan reminds him he was the biggest loser in the house in Week 1 and in Week 2 he got a good result. Shannan tells him that he can’t get those sort of numbers every week, it’s a finite thing. Shannan wants him to understand that he’s earnt his place in the team, purely with the numbers he’s lost already.
Shannan says he wanted to highlight for Sean that he’s earnt the respect of his team, he’s lost big numbers and is giving it 100%.
Shannan also lets him know the other big thing that is quantifiable that he’s done is that he’s halved his insulin, which is great for him and for his family, because he’ll be there for him.
In a side bit, Shannan says that big things happen, people lose big numbers, people have big breakdowns. Today was just Sean’s turn.
Sean’s concerned about what’s real and what’s not. He worries about the team, he has trouble sleeping. He’s freaking out that he might let the team down.
Shannan tells him that whatever twists and turns the game throws up, it’s all cool. The lessons you learn from the people there will last a lifetime, and that’s real.

Sean says that Shannan really helped make things clear for him and Sean’s not the first guy he’s taken through it and it’s all part of the process.
Shannan tells him his boys will be sitting at home and saying, “Look at my Dad!”
“I know you’re real, mate.” – Sean
Sean already looks a lot less distressed at the end and finally has a chuckle with Shannan.

The boys head back to the rest of the team and Sean apologises to everyone, he tells them he’d just started to lose perspective on everything. He can handle the exercise and the nutrition. But the game and “all that” became a jumble in his head.
Michael tells him it gets to all of them, so don’t think he’s alone or isolated, they’re having the same problems. They’re still a team!
Alison says that Shannan is a great trainer and was definitely the best person to help in that situation.

Shannan says that this week is physical week and it’s time to lift the intensity.
Shannan has them running up and down the lawn passing a footy around.
John says the mood had been a bit flat but Shannan pulled them back out of it. And the team is happy to see Sean with a smile on his face again.
Sean says he came to realise that, as usual, what he needed to do was exercise! Shannan gets them to take that negative energy and work it out with exercise.

Alison says she looks like a disabled duck when she runs, she hates running! Apparently she had an ankle reconstruction a long time ago and hasn’t really run since.
Shannan wants her to realise she can run, her ankle reconstruction was 9 years ago, he’ll show her how to run again!
She’s hoping running will help her lose some weight this week.
At the end of the session Shannan has her running around a square while the rest of the team shout out encouragement from the sidelines. And Shannan says she picked up speed and got quicker and quicker, not a jog, not a shuffle, she’s running!
Shannan gets her to say she can run and she says she can run, sort of. “Okay, I can run!” “No, louder than that!” Shannan wants her to leave her old self behind and the excuses behind and say it louder and she raises her voice a tiny bit. She’s not a very shouty person.
She’s hoping she can get much better and maybe give Michael a run for his money.

Debbie has left them, but apparently she left a note for Shannan. Shannan says her words were beautiful for him to hear and reinforced why he’s a trainer.
She says she’s strong and will make it and will remember all he’s taught her. He’s a gem in the world of trainers, just don’t take her to the beach again!
Shannan says it was an important lesson for Sean, he needed to know that what happens is real, the friendships they form are real, etc.
Shannan tells him to think what their day has been like. 55 minutes ago he was spiralling out of control and now he’s sitting on the lawn after a good hard work out. “It’s incredible, isn’t it? What *you* can do?”
Sean says there’s so much more to this than nutrition and training, but it’s all cool!

Alison thinks they should be dismissed too early, they’ve got a great chance of winning the next weigh in!

Red Team heads into the gym for another butt kicking by Michelle.
She says she won’t be going easy on them because they won the weigh in. They’re on top, but they want to stay there. She’ll be taking no prisoners!

Nicola says Michelle pushed them to the max right away. Didn’t feel like they had any sort of warmup like Michelle promised!
Nicola’s doing weights though she says she’d only just done some, but Michelle doesn’t care! No excuses!

Sheridan says she has trouble with anything to do with jumping. She has the misfortune of having a ridiculously large chest. She can’t wait for her boobies to be gone, she wants them gone!
“Hold your bosoms if you need to!” – Michelle
Michelle needed to push them hard and she wants them to give her numbers to make them work harder. Cosi says 50!
Sheridan yells out, “Fuck offff Cosi!”

Sheridan hates star jumps. She wants to kill Cosi!
Michelle asks for another number and Sheridan howls, “FIIIIIVE!!!”
Nicole says Sheridan has the ability to lose her temper really quickly.
Michelle notes that Sheridan gets angry and aggressive during hard training sessions, she needs to channel that energy better. This is probably where she’s gone off the rails before. She throws her toys and walks away.
“Hard training allows people to really see their true colours.” – Michelle

Sheridan mutters “Piss off” under her breath at one point.
Cosi says Sheridan doesn’t float his boat, he doesn’t trust her. Nicola says Sheridan gets extremely angry and out of control in training and you never know if that anger will be turned on you. And that scares Nicola.
“Next training Cosi, my bra filled with sand, and you!” – Sheridan
Sheridan says it was a bad way to handle the situation, she needs to change so much about herself. The mental process is much more difficult for her than the physical.

“Hello Australia, no food!” – Cosi
They’ve taken literally everything this team. All the bread, all the sauces, all the proper food. So this must mean it’s Warehouse time!

They’re hoping for something good this time, particularly Red Team, who got lumped with horrible canned goods last time!
Cosi is the biggest loser, so he’ll get to choose, which Sheridan sees as a good thing since they’ll get the better of the two crap things to eat!

Ajay’s wearing a nice and simple pink dress. Does nothing for her boobs but at least she doesn’t look ugly!

Sean says Blue’s diet is vital to their success in the next weigh in. Now they’re victims of the game once again!

The choices today are between:
1. Japanese food
2. Cold hard cash

Uh, cash isn’t edible, Ajay.

Selecting the jap food means they get freshly prepared jap food every day.
If they choose the cash they get $60 each to go to the supermarket to buy enough groceries to last the week. But they won’t get any fresh fruit or vegetables, salt, sugar, milk, nothing. It all has to come out of their $60 each. Ouch.
John is worried. Meat is expensive.
Sheridan is worried about the Jap food, because it has a lot of rice in it.

Cosi discusses it with Red.
Alison wanted the Jap food, she’s pretending to whisper stuff to her team, saying things like salt and fat, to make it sound like they’re scared of the jap food.
Nicole is in earshot and sort of relays it to Red. Nicole says they could choose the meat and veg and salad stuff with the cash.

Time’s up, Ajay says. Garry mutters that he doesn’t agree, but he’ll go with the majority. Good of him since it’s not his choice.

Cosi says he doesn’t know a lot about Japanese food, but they do eat a lot of raw fish and seaweed, which doesn’t instil him with a lot of confidence. So they’ve decided to take the “icy cold cans of cash”.
Cosi has an aside to say that Michelle has set out a diet for them and they can work it all out for themselves if they shop for it, whereas the Japanese food could have anything.

Sean has a side bit saying that Blue got stuck with the japanese food. “Bugger, what a damn shame!” And then he burst out laughing and says they were stoked.

Ajay stirs the pot and asks Garry if he agrees with the decision and Garry says that with the chef they could have asked him to cook what they want or what is good for them and have a bit more time in the gym while the food is being prepared. Wah wah wah, suck it up ya baby.
Sean says they’d just been talking about how they could get more time to spend in the gym and here they had the opportunity to have the rest of their food prepared for the week.

Sean is asked if this spells trouble for the Blue Team and Sean says it could spell trouble for just about any time… but not the Blue Team! And everyone has a laugh, particularly Sam who has to hide his face.
Sean says the two eldest guys are second and third on the biggest loser list and they both have injuries. Cosi asks him what it’s got to do with eating japanese food?
John’s getting a bit shirty, thinking that Cosi had his turn and now it’s Sean’s turn to talk. Get over it, he’s just having some fun Grandpa!

Ajay asks Cosi if he has anything to say back and Cosi says he just wanted to question the relevance of rankings when you’re talking about jap food or $15 a day at Woolies. He just didn’t understand where Sean was going. He has some more of a laugh. Meanwhile Sean does a very obvious yawn.
Sean says he’s no radio announcer and Cosi says he’s no roofer, but we’ll get there! We’ll be okay! Blue has a Jap guy cooking their tucker and Red has $15 a day, they’ll all survive!
Cosi has a side bit where he’s laughing some more and saying now they’re having a crack at each other’s career!
Sean took it less well and thinks Cosi has a bit of a nasty streak to him.

Cosi says they’re going to have their disagreements and he’s at a point now where if someone is saying something that is utter rubbish he’s going to pop up and have a bit of a crack.
Sean says Cosi got a bit upset because Sean inferred that Red weren’t strong. Which is true!

Red head off to the supermarket with their $360 for the week’s shopping.
They split up into mini-teams, Garry, Cosi and Sheridan together, Nicole, Nicola and Sam in the other group.
Garry says the last time he was at a supermarket was in the 1980’s. One of the advantages of living at home, he says, “the old lady” buys the stuff for him. Which is really pathetic, at his age, to not have any idea? Lame.

“Awww, this is a must!” Garry grabs a pack of Burgen bread. Michelle will love them!

Nicola asks if they should get Cos lettuce for Cosi!
Nicole’s confident they can make the right choices. Nicola says it’s weird being in the fruit and veg section. Nicole says she’d normally be in the confectionery aisle! Chocolate and chips everywhere and that’s what got them there in the first place!
Sheridan has a peek inside the ice cream cabinet and says hello to her friends, but then ran away.

Nicola says on the outside her girlfriends and her have huge cheese platters, they love their double brie cheese and cheddar. Nicola grabs a chunk of camembert and mimes chomping on it. She says she needed to stand around and touch them and imagine eating them.

$361 their total comes to. They have to take out one apple to get it back to $360.
Sheridan thinks it would have been great to have the japanese chef, but this was a learning experience and a really good team building exercise as well.

Blue returns from the Warehouse and finds Shannan in the trophy room. They tell him that they didn’t have control this time, for the first time.
They say one option was $60 a week per person, which he says is not a lot of money to buy healthy, nutritious food.
Shannan says that having your food prepared by a Japanese Chef, for lunch and dinner every day, that’s the option he’d’ve picked anyway. He says of all the fast foods, japanese is a great one.
He says they need to stay away from anything with tempura coating and sushi is not so good, because of the white, fluffy, starchy rice.
Shannan says they need to remember that you can go in and tell them how you want, you’re the customer. Alison chimes in and says that Kirsten speaks Japanese. Fluently!
Shannan’s super impressed by that.
Alison tells Shannan about their plan to exercise more because they’ll have more time free due to not having to get food out, not having to prepare food.

As they head off for some training they go past the kitchen and their Japanese Chef is there serving up their lunch. Shannan’s excited! Alison tells the chef they’re very happy to see her!
Shannan looks at the rice and asks if it’s wholemeal rice and the chef says that it’s brown rice, so it’s all good!
Shannan is happier than ever. He says she obviously knew these guys were there to lose weight, as he put it they have their own Japenese chef, listening to their diet advice and preparing the food for the team.
Kirsten shows off by speaking some Japanese and the Japanese chef translates for everyone else, heh, funny lady.

And her name is Yoshi? Heh.

Michael’s never had sashimi before. Yoshi says, “You’re a sashimi…” “Virgin?” Michael asks. Yoshi says yes, she was going to say that but she thought maybe it wouldn’t be appropriate. Everyone has a good giggle.
Michael gets stuck in while Yoshi sits down with them. Yoshi tells Michael not to smell the sashimi. Michael puts it in his mouth and he doesn’t look happy. The girls all crack up while Yoshi tries to convince him that it’ll just melt on his tongue!
“Moving on!” – Michael. Yoshi has another giggle.
Alison is very happy with Michael, he wouldn’t’ve even tried raw fish a couple of weeks ago.

Shannan asks his team what Red were thinking giving them this. Perfectly prepared japanese cuisine that will reach all their nutritional needs and they’ll be running on a full tank. Raw salad, raw fish, nothing processed at all.
Kirsten thinks they got the better end of the deal, they’ve got it easy and Cosi has made a mistake.

Michelle is waiting for her team.
Red shows her their grocery-booty, full of leafy greens and carrots and stuff. “I’m so proud! I could almost cry right now!”
Michelle is really happy with them all for avoiding all the chocolate and cheese, it’s a real victory that they managed it. Michelle asks if there’s any chocolate or cheese hidden. Nicola says she did have to spend about 5 minutes in front of the cheese aisle.
Michelle thinks they’ll still have their favourite little things every once in a while, maybe once a week, and that’s okay, so long as it’s not every day.
Michelle says that Japanese food is good, healthy, nutritious, but you still don’t know what’s going to be in it. Michelle thinks they’ve made the right choice.
Sheridan says the chef would be really nice to have but that’s not why they’re there, they’re there to learn how to fend for themselves and how to maintain their weightloss outside without extra help.

“You have a shopping trolley that looks like this, then you will be normal weight. It’s that simple. If you have a shopping trolley that’s full of processed things, in boxes, soft drinks, biscuits, cakes, you will be overweight.” – Michelle

Michelle has to pull Cosi aside. Normally they’re not allowed outside phone calls, but this is something that can’t wait.
Cosi says his heart rate went up a long way, worried about what’s going on.
He’s very nervous. He’s talking to his girl.
She has something to tell him. “You’re gonna be a Dad!” Cosi tears up.
Cosi says he’s sad that he’s not there for it, but he’s still really stoked.
Monday she’ll get to hear its heartbeat and they’ll take a photo of the baby for him. Which he says will be great.
Cosi says this reinforces for him why he’s there, so he can extend his life and have more time to spend with his family.

Meanwhile, in Americaland, on Malibu Beach, Black Team are getting a workout with Jillian.
This is the first week without Steven and she says they’re at a disadvantage and that’s weighing on their mind a bit.

And today is pick on Michelle day!
Michelle thinks that maybe they’ve got her pegged as the weak link now.
Jillian wants to break through the facade of the happy bubbly Michelle and show her that she is strong, she is capable, competent, she can run, jump and sprint and whatever else.

They’re doing one of those sort of “trust” exercises. Bryce dropping down face first while Michelle is on her knees in front of him. She has to hold up his weight and then push him back up.

Jillian is hoping that losing Steven will motivate them more since they’ll have one less person watching their back when they get into the White House.
“You will carry your teammates if need be!” – Jillian
Jillian says they’ve got to be sharp as knives when they go back to the White House.

Michelle is doing a commando crawl across the beach and Jillian keeps grabbing at her foot and holding her back, asking if she’s tired, if she’s going to quit.
Jillian eventually grabs a hold of her arse it seems and Michelle’s giggling and Jillian gives her a pat and says nice job.
Michelle says she’s a lot stronger than she was. She would have doubted herself before, but now she doesn’t.

Jillian says it’s almost time for them to go back to Australia and no one in the House in Australia is ready for them. They’re a massive threat.

Tomorrow night being away from her kids will finally get to Alison.
And Temptation is something to do with blindfolded fat people eating jaffas in a cinema. And there’s a heartwrenching twist.

And later this week the secret Black Team is revealed!
Shannan says he thought they’d got rid of them forever… But they’re back! It’s unclear whether he means the other fatties or Bob and Jillian.

Still think it’s too soon for them to actually arrive back here. Think maybe they’re just going to be revealed, but not arrive quite yet…

And just a little commentary on tonight’s episode to cap things off.
Tonight’s “Warehouse” is more of what I had hoped it would be – two reasonable choices where either one was okay, but maybe one was slightly better, or slightly more palatable, or slightly easier to work into their diet.
Not fresh vegetables versus tinned rubbish. That one was a terrible decision by the producers.
Hopefully they’ll continue in that vein in the future!