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The Biggest Loser: Run, For Your Life
Commentary and Recap By RTVC Staff Writer Donna Emery
December 2, 2009
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Lost over 200 pounds.
This week on the Biggest Loser, the final four ran a marathon – and everyone made it to the finish line.
The episode began with a retrospective and a replay of many of the moments which have led up to the formulation of this season’s Final Four players. It briefly relived last week’s vote, and showed us how much they all have changed.
Hostess Allison Sweeney congratulated them and told them they’d be going home for 60 days. Home: with all its family demands and delights, all of the responsibilities of their jobs, and all the temptations which had gotten them to their formerly selves. She told them that it was home where they would find out “what the Biggest Loser is all about. No trainers, no Ranch. It’s a challenge, but don’t give in.”
Danny said he felt like he now has a lifeline, and he can now succeed at his dreams. Rudy knew he missed his wife and daughters. His younger daughter is now four months old, and he realized he’d missed a lot of milestones in her early life.
Liz was excited to think she is in control of her own destiny. “I have a new lease on life!”
Amanda was thrilled to think she’d lost almost 70 pounds. “I am so happy. I’ve come so far. The old Amanda would have quit before now. I believe in myself.”
All of them took a journey that brought them to their homes. All arrived home to enthusiastic groups of family and friends.
After greeting the crowd Danny remarked how, 11 weeks ago, he’d begun his journey. “I was scared and hopeless. Few people get a second chance like this. It has also been hard for my wife.” With that, he pulled out a ring box and handed it to his wife. He told her he wanted them to renew their vows.
Rudy told his well-wishers it had been a long road, for him. He hoped he’d make similar progress at home – and eventually go on to become the Biggest Loser.
Liz’s story to her gang contained a bit of typical Liz humor. “The first week I was on the Ranch, I wanted to go home – but I decided to stay another week. But, by week four, I began to realize I could do it.”
Amanda confessed there had been many times she’d wanted to quit. “It was so hard, but I took the extra steps needed and I’m here.”
When each of them revealed the amount of weight they’d lost, their respective crowds cheered.
Danny took a drive and reflected, yet again on how, at 17: “I was a rock star. I want that life back. My dream and my life were stolen. Now, the world is in my hands. My problem isn’t just weight; I need to heal my mind.”
Danny continued: “I need to focus on why I got so obese. I was fat, and I lost weight before. Obese, thin – obese, thin. If I don’t figure out why this happened, I will be back to 430 pounds. “
Amanda revealed she’d grown up fat; she’d never been thin. “My true self was hiding. I was dying inside. Now, I’m happy, but reality will soon filter in. She joined her best friend, Brian at a workout, and tried to talk to him about the feelings she’d had, when she was overweight.
”You’re not that person anymore,” he told her.
Amanda knew this was true. “I just know I don’t want to go back to my scared, old self.”
Rudy talked about how he’d felt, at 12, when his older sister died of leukemia. “That woke me up. I felt like my world had ended. That’s when my battle with weight began. Eating won’t give me the answer to what I seek; neither will going to the gym all the time – though that would be better for me.”
His wife tried to help. “Think back to when you were 12,” she told him. “What did you need, then? It may be you need the same thing, now.”
But Rudy didn’t remember. He just felt stressed.
His wife wondered if he felt as though he had to “carry everything, alone.” She urged him not to “eat” his feelings.
Rudy realized this was true, but, he also knew emotions were difficult for him to express. “I know I have to bring out those feelings – and that will be hard.”
Liz was struggling with her own issues. “I told my husband, before I went on the Ranch that we’d have to make a lot of changes. I have changed, a lot – and I have more to go. I know we have issues between us. I was so angry; so bitter; so empty. But it can’t be that way, any more.”
She told her husband the Ranch.....
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