Posts Tagged ‘michelle’

Frequent viewers of Channel 10 (and sad, sad people who watched the Oprah show) may have spotted some early teaser clips for the upcoming sixth season of The Biggest Loser Australia.

I haven’t seen them myself… but I have seen the teaser trailers that have recently appeared on the official site.

Have you? Read on for my thoughts on the clips.
Haven’t seen them yet? Click through to see them for yourself! (Or see some broken links until I go back and fix them if I’ve done something wrong.)

(And yes, this does mean I’ll be back for another season of recapping. :-) )
Read the rest of this entry »

Tonight on The Biggest Loser is Elimination night.

Michelle and Kirsten have fallen below the Yellow Line, with Michelle losing a paltry 0.1kg in the last week, putting her position in the greatest jeopardy.
With two ex-Blues in Sam and Alison voting, Kirsten’s position in the House seems secure.

But will the Blue alliance finally crumble?

*shakes Magic 8 Ball*

“All signs point to NO.”

Thanks, Magic 8 Ball!
Read the rest of this entry »

Tonight on The Biggest Loser, Michelle’s $50,000 decision will be drawn out some more, making us wait even longer for a resolution than ever before. Another world first for Loser!

Also, JJ’s gone for another walkabout. Will Commando Steve follow through on his threat to come kick his butt?

Read on to find out… Except you probably won’t find out because the show only goes for an hour tonight and they can’t resolve two things in one episode!
So read on if you’re curious in a general sort of way as to what happens in this episode.
Read the rest of this entry »

Well, there’s still no new official site, though we’ve been promised it will be up tomorrow morning, but thanks to an intrepid soul on the TWoP forums, here’s a couple of highlights from an interview The Age had with Michelle Bridges, trainer of The Biggest Loser’s Red Team.

“They were big shoes to fill, stepping into someone else’s role, and we got five people who lost more weight than the winner of the first series when we had six weeks to go.”

I think what she’s trying to say there is that when herself and Shannan took over in Season 2, when they were still six weeks out from the final weigh-in, they had contestants with a better overall percentage loss than Adro, the winner of the first season, had at the finale.

I could go back and check this, but, well, who cares? They done good!

“One of the biggest lessons I learnt last year was that people – even obese people – can do way more than they think they can. I think everybody underestimates how strong they are. When your back’s against the wall, many people think they’d crumble, whereas in most instances, people come out fighting.”

Yes, in most instances – some quit and go home to continue being big fat crybabies. Or get voted out early and go home to continue being a big fat crybaby. Or…

“I know how hard it is for them. I know how hard it is for me to get myself up and out there and train every day. I’m a girl. I know the pressures of being a female. I know what it’s like to put on even a couple of kilograms and your clothing feels a bit tight and how disappointing that can be, let alone another 20 or 30 kilograms.”

Michelle’s life – SO HARD.

She is right though. Okay, so she hasn’t had to lose massive amounts of weight, but you don’t get muscles like that naturally, it requires a lot of work and constant “maintenance” to keep looking sharp. You don’t really need to do that much to stay in decent shape.

The fatties have a heck of a lot more motivation – they’ll probably die of something related to being fat if they don’t do something about it. You’d think that would make it a bit easier to stay motivated, not harder!

If you would like to read the rest of the really fairly interesting article, you can find it over here on The Age’s website.

[Found at: TWoP]