TBL 6×38: The Ice Cream Man Cometh!

Sunday night on The Biggest Loser Sarah and Rebecca fell below the Yellow Line with Meg having mercy on Sarah and opting to cast her vote Rebecca’s way, ensuring her elimination.

Tonight… ICE CREAM MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, Greg’s getting a special visit from Michelle and a surprise return to Fat Camp. Which is very lucky for him but not so lucky for his stomach.

We also get teased with Makeover Day starting but as I’m writing this post after having watched the episode I can tell you right now… It ain’t happening tonight!

Anyway, after the elimination they’re all sitting in the lounge room discussing sending Rebecca.
Joe’s lost his best friend in the competition, who he characterises as “like a sister”. Riiiight.


Meg’s trying to reassure Kellie and Sarah by saying she was worried about her family members backsliding and all three of them have been doing so well on the outside.

Next morning Blue is hanging out in their room and suddenly they can hear Greensleeves playing. Sharlene wonders what it is.
Lara squeals, “ICE CREAMMMMMMMMMM!!!”

Yes, the Ice Cream Man has come to pay a visit to Fat Camp once again. Yay!

Sarah recognises the music anywhere, she says. If there was an Ice Cream Anonymous she’d be the first one to go. “Hello, my name is Sarah and I’m addicted to Ice Cream.”

Hayley’s there to tell them it’s Temptation time. But there’s not just ice cream on offer there’s also Immunity!
As Meg had Immunity last week she’ll retain it if nobody participates today. So it’s a pretty safe bet someone will have a crack at it.

Each contestant will visit the ice cream van and they can eat as much or as little as they like. Whoever consumes the most calories will win Immunity.
And it’s another blind Temptation. Each contestant will visit alone.
Sarah tells us she’d prefer to have it in private since then nobody will know if she plays and she won’t have to feel guilty.

Erm, have you not been around for previous Temptations? Hayley’s going to say who ate what afterwards. And you should feel guilty for pigging out anyway!

As Meg has Immunity she gets to go first. She has a look at the ice cream van’s board… but her strategy today is to not take Temptation because she’d promised Tiffiny she’d never take Temptation again.
Immunity would be valuable but not as valuable as her weightloss, Meg says.

Leigh rocks up to the ice cream van next. And goes for a sundae with the chocolate sauce and whipped cream and cherry and crushed nuts and a mini-Flake.
Crazy.
He says he was trying to play smart today by eating as many calories as he could, rather than just as much food as he wanted.
He manages to get through one sundae and says that he didn’t really enjoy it, his taste has changed and it just left him feeling pretty full.

Yet he goes for a second sundae. And it’s pretty obvious he’s not enjoying it at all.
He then says he can’t eat another sundae but there’s room for a waffle cone. He thinks there won’t be anyone who can put away three sundaes and two sundaes plus a waffle cone without ice cream ought to get him past any of the others.
Except for massive pig Joe, probably!

Leigh walks back into the lounge and Meg’s putting on an act, pretending she was partaking of the ice creamy goodness. Trying to mess with Leigh’s head.

Joe’s turn now and he goes straight for a sundae. He says it kept getting sweeter and harder to eat but he has to keep going if he wants Immunity.
He polishes off his first sundae and goes right back for another. He feels like he needs Immunity now that his friend Rebecca’s not there.
Joe’s also sure that other people will be able to eat two sundaes and so he decides to have a little something more, too. But we don’t see what he picks as his third option.

As Joe comes back in he tries the opposite tack to Meg and Leigh by pretending he didn’t partake. Meg can tell he did though and tells him he still has some ice cream in his beard and Joe scratches at it and asks where. Busted!

Sharlene walks up to Ice Cream Man, says hello, says no thanks and walks away. Good girl!

Kellie walks up and sees all the chocolates on offer to put on her ice cream. She was a massive chocolate fan prior to the show and so she finds it really hard to resist.
She says it was a hard one to walk away from but if she wants to be the Biggest Loser for the week she needs to stay away from it.

Lara’s turn. She says she has a gurgly feeling in her tummy as she walks up, just like she did when she was a kid walking up to the ice cream van.
She’s a big ice cream fan. She used to eat heaps of it in all kinds of flavours with rocky road shoved inside it. And now she can have as much of it as she wants?!

This is making me want ice cream. :-(

Next up to the van is Sarah. She’s feeling very excited, like a little girl asking her Mum for $2 to get some ice cream.
Erm. Isn’t she always banging on about how her Dad would only give her $2 to get chips from the shops to eat for her and her sibling? Sounds like you got by on a little more than chips after all…
Anyway, Sarah has a sit down at the table with the umbrella over it and pretends like it’s a nice sunny day and just loiters there for a while, trying to mess with everyone else’s head by how long she’s taking.
We get a flashback to when Steve was staying with her and she had 1L of ice cream and she gave Steve 1L of ice cream and he could barely believe how much ice cream she could stuff in her belly.

Sarah wanders back into the lounge room pretending she took part as well, much to the amusement/horror of everyone else.

After an ad break (I keep getting Biggest Loser XBOX Kinect game ads via the website!) Hayley announces that only two people took part in Temptation.
Kellie is sure one of them will be Sarah, she always falls for it!
But no, it’s Joe and Leigh. Lara’s very disappointed.

Hayley says there was only 260 calories between the two of them.
And the winner is… Joe!

Nooooooooooooooo!

Leigh asks him how much he ate!
Both had a sundae each. Joe also had a waffle cone soft serve choc dip worth 380 calories.
Total? 1,824 calories for Joe.
Sharlene says he’s dead!
1,564 calories for Leigh. Loser!

Joe’s over the moon at getting another week closer to the end of the game.

After Temptation Mish tells Joe that she’s got a letter from Greg. Not for Joe, for Michelle herself.
She says Greg’s been struggling on the outside, as most early-evictees do.
Michelle reads Greg’s letter out. He’s asking for help because, while he’s losing weight, he’s not losing it quickly enough and he can feel his old habits starting to creepy back into his life.
It’s a hand-written letter and Greg has very girly writing. Ha!

Joe says family is important to him and he’d love to see Greg get his life back. Pfft. Liar!

Anyway, Michelle is leaving Joe to do a special off-site training session with the other contestants and she’s going to go pay a visit to Greg.

Off-site training today is rock climbing at an in-door climbing centre. Coooool!

Sarah’s arms are getting tired while climbing up there and Steve’s calling up encouragement and she starts getting grunty and shouty.
So Steve clambers up the wall to get beside her in no time flat. Spider-Commando!

Everyone’s calling out encouragement from below. Lara’s belaying her and she’s obviously impressed by how well she’s doing.
As Sarah gets back down to the bottom after touching the top she says, “Courage!” The wall’s not that tall and you have a stack of climbing and safety gear attached. About the most danger she faced was a broken nail!

Now Michelle’s off for her visit with Greg.
She turns up to Greg’s house and knocks on the door and Greg does a very fake gasp as he opens the door.
Greg’s training three to four times a day, Mish says he’s told her, so there must be something wrong with his diet.
He still looks really big, too.

Michelle makes a beeline for his fridge to have a look and she finds lots and lots of alcohol in there, which Greg says is the wife’s. As is the Italian cake. And the cheese. And the chocolate. And cake mixes on top of the cupboard. And popcorn. All of it is his wife’s.

So where’s his food, Michelle wonders?
Michelle can see a lot of things in the house that will hold him back and she’s not sure he can really do this on the outside.
So she’s going to do something more – something she has never, ever done before. She takes great pains to say that. I think more for our benefit than for truthiness. She’s always on Twitter saying helpful things to people!
Michelle’s going to take Greg back to Camp. Just for a week. It won’t be about being back in the game or competing or anything. It’ll just be to come back and get his nutrition and training back on track.
So it’s back on with the Red shirt and off he goes.

Meanwhile, back at the climbing centre, Kellie, Sharlene and Meg are in a team trying to climb up a log ladder. Each log is 2 metres apart and so they have to use each other’s body to climb upwards.
Kellie’s definitely the weakest link, Tiffiny says. But Shannan’s calling up encouragement and she eventually manages to get up onto her log.
And then Sharlene clambers up on Meg’s shoulders and up over Kellie to stand on the log above. Victory!

Greg and Michelle arrive back at Camp. Mish opens the door for him and they wander in to the lounge room.
And everyone is very shocked to see Greg come back in. Most of them haven’t really seen him since Week One.
Meg’s looking at him and tells us she can’t really see the difference in him from Week One.

Mish explains that Greg’s been struggling on the outside. He only had that one week at the start so he’s missed out on everything the rest of them have learned in the interim.
Mish tells them that he’s not there to compete or anything, he’s just there to get some more learning in and Lara says that’s so nice of her to bring him back.

Greg’s starting weight this week is 151.1kg.
She’s going to put him through his paces to see how his training has really been going.
She’s initially impressed but it’s not long and he’s back to his old ways of giving up and not listening to Michelle.

Joe’s very disappointed since Greg has obviously been telling them one thing and it’s not been true. And Joe would know, I guess!

Greg’s hopped off the cross trainer and is supposedly dry heaving into a bucket but Michelle doesn’t believe him. Nothing’s coming up…

Time to move on to the kettle bell. Greg’s asking for a 30 second break and Michelle says no. And he doesn’t need to bother wiping the sweat off.
Mish says he’s testing her patience and Greg’s bitching and moaning and finally gets the kettle bell swinging started.

After that it’s back to the fake puking and Michelle thinks it’s just making time for him to not be exercising.

She gets him back on the cross trainer and says she’s banning the “I KNOW” words. Because he keeps saying them to her instead of doing things.
She tries to get him to do 30 seconds on the cross trainer and he says no and hops off the cross trainer and says, “Stuff this, I’m going home.”
And out the door he walks…

Michelle can barely believe it. She chases him out calling after him, saying they’ve almost finished the training session.
He’s been back for an hour and he’s walking out already?
Greg’s packing his bags as Michelle catches up to him and Greg says he’ll do it on the outside. Because that clearly worked for him?

How many times has he quit? Greg’s quit all his life. But lately he’s been trying not to do that.
But he’s going to leave now, Mish asks? Nobody said it would be easy. Michelle tells us Greg’s got a lot of catching up to do, still.
Greg asks her to promise that it gets better and she can’t do that but she says he’ll learn more about himself in this week than he has before.
Then they hug it out and I guess Greg’s staying?

Next morning Sharlene wakes up and finds a can of hairspray and a hairdryer on a table and she rushes off to wake them all up.
They follow a trail of various makeup products and jewellery and dresses and find a letter.

They’ve been working out to transform their lives and bodies and now it’s time for a brand new look to match their new bodies.
IT’S MAKEOVER TIIIIME!

Lara and Meg running out squealing about it as the episode ends.

Tomorrow night… MAKEOVER TIIIIIIIIME!
And they’ll get to show off their new looks in front of friends and family on the catwalk. Oooh!