I was reading through my twitter stream and doing some searches for Biggest Loser tonight and I found what I’m calling The Biggest Loser Phenomenon.

This phenomenon is that when people always end up eating while watching The Biggest Loser. However, they don’t just eat. They also feel guilty for eating. Here’s a small sample of some recent tweets on the subject:

My favorite one in the list of tweets is the last one from @nycnic2305. “is it wrong that I am eating cookies and watching the biggest loser?? should i feel bad? but these cookies are soooo good.”

I also like @nuthouseshannon who said “watching Biggest Loser while eating chocolate cake…something is not right with this picture…” Of course, to this I replied, “@nuthouseshannon Nope and Nope. You should however feel guilty for not sharing those cookies with me.”

Time to go and get my cookies ready. Biggest Loser starts in 45 minutes for me.

FORMER MODELS:
Tara Costa (Model/Finance manager), 23, New York, New York, and her friend Laura Denoux (Model/Sales director), 24, Miami, Florida.

Man TV shows are great at spin. I thought the idea of bringing a couple of models on the Biggest Loser was a great storyline. Of course, I had to search the internet to find some pictures of these models so we could see how their model look compared to how much weight they lose on the show.

Well, it turns out that Tara and Laura are plus size models. That’s not nearly as interesting a story. I was hoping for some models that were really skinny and then became fat. Then, the show would be them returning to their previous form. Now Tara and Laura are going to be without jobs at the end of the show. The beauty is that Tara and Laura will probably be very happy about that result.

The list of people planning to get their butts whipped by the trainers on Biggest Losers has been revealed. Check out the list of couples that will be literally working their butts off on season 7 of Biggest Loser Couples.

BEST FRIENDS:
Carla Triplett (Assistant bank manager), 36, and her best friend Joelle Gwynn (Non-profit founder), 41, Southfield, Michigan.

Daniel Wright (Student), 19, Willow Spring, North Carolina, and his best friend, David Lee (Student), 23, Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.

COUSINS:
Sione Fa (Owner, landscape company), 28, Maricopa, Arizona and his cousin, Filipe Fa (Lube technician), 26, Mesa, Arizona.

Blaine Cotter (College counselor), 27, Gilbert, Arizona and his cousin Dane Patterson (Real estate appraiser), 27, Mesa, Arizona.

ENGAGED COUPLE:
Damien Gurganious (Industrial designer), 31, and his fiancée Nicole Brewer (Wardrobe stylist), 37, Brooklyn, New York.

FORMER MODELS:
Tara Costa (Model/Finance manager), 23, New York, New York, and her friend Laura Denoux (Model/Sales director), 24, Miami, Florida.

FATHER/SON:
Ron Morelli (Retired food distributor, currently City Councilman), 54, and his son, Mike Morelli (Student), 18, South Lyon, Michigan.

GRANDPARENTS:
Estella Hayes (Retired nurse), 63 and her husband, Gerald “Jerry” Hayes (Retired engineer), 63, Wheaton, Illinois.

MOTHER/DAUGHTER:
Helen Phillips (Retired retail manager), 47, Sterling Heights, Michigan and her daughter, Shanon Thomas (Massage therapist), 29, Centerline, Michigan.

Cathy Skell (Title sales closing agent at real estate firm), 48, Shiocton, Wisconsin and her daughter, Kristin Steede (Business owner), 28, Greenville, Wisconsin.

SISTERS:
Amanda Kramer (Cosmetologist), 30, Boise, Idaho, and her sister, Aubrey Cheney (Information and education specialist), 28, Gooding, Idaho.

I hope everyone was able to see both halves of the show. I almost forgot that the second half of the show was playing last night. Good thing my husband reminded me. I was sad that I missed last weeks episode. Why doesn’t NBC stream it? Annoying. Any how, my husband filled me in on what I missed and I didn’t feel like I was lost at all.

I was surprised that the teams were just now cashing in the awards they won the first episode. I totally forgot about them. I was happy that the red team could go see their kids. I may have let a few tears fall. What a wonderful family they seem to have. I am glad they got the kids out and went hiking. It is things like trips home and calls home that let me get even more attached to the people I am watching. They are real. They have loved ones who are cheering them on and loving them. They are more human and more real.

I haven’t decided if I like it that one team member stays and one team member goes. It makes it much more emotional. I was impressed with the brown team’s decision. If they wanted to win the competition they should have kept Ed there. However, they were there to lose weight, to get healthy enough so they can have children. In the end Heba stayed and Ed went home.

I love that each week we get to see the progress of those kicked off. Ed looked great. I think he will be a strong contender for the at home prize money.

Tom Desrochers and Tom ‘L.T.’ Desrochers Jr. talk abut getting eliminated from the ‘Biggest Loser’ and their weight lose since.

Billy Bush of Access Hollywood talks to Stacey and Adam Capers about losing even more weight after being eliminated from The Biggest Loser: Family Edition.

My wife has been doing a great job covering this season’s Biggest Loser Families. Last night she was all ready to do a post about the third episode of Biggest Loser season 6 when she got a phone call from a neighbor friend asking her if she wanted to go walking (ie. exercise). I think everyone can appreciate the irony of the situation. Does she stay and watch Biggest Loser Families or does she decide to do like people on the show and exercise?

I’m proud of my wife. She really didn’t even seem to blink an eye. She got up and ready and went out walking with the neighbor. Sure she missed an episode of one of her favorite TV shows, but it would have been kind of sad if she had watched Biggest Loser families and not tried to avoid some of the health problems the people on the show have experienced.

Luckily, I have a wonderful wife that will never let herself reach that point. Great choice honey and all of your rabid readers will welcome you with open arms next week.

I should mention that I’m certain if my wife had watched the show she’d have been crying through half of it. I may have had a tear reached the corner or my eye myself. Although, I’ll disavow any knowledge of such a thing happening. I’m glad Biggest Loser Families only kicked off one team member though.

My allergies really made my eyes water during this episode. It couldn’t be I was crying over how cute and tender the conversations home were. I mean who would cry over Charlie Brown?

My one major gripe about this show is shameless advertising. They throw in adversing through out the whole show but do it in the most tacky way.

I was excited to see Rocco on the show and to have a little segment on healthy yet affordable meals. I found some of Rocco’s recipes online, however they weren’t the ones featured in this weeks show. I am hoping that NBC will put those recipes up on their website soon. I want to try the winning meatball and chick pea soup.

The average weight loss for week two is only 2%. I think I heard this a thousand times during this episode. I just wanted to scream “okay we got it” Stop repeating it over and over”. The show could be a normal one hour show if they stopped with their shameless advertising, their endless repeating and the stretched out weigh-ins.

I always have thought that the first weeks weight loss is overly exaggerated. Of course they are going to lose a lot of weight. When you teach them how to eliminate all the extra water from their bodies combined with healthy eating for the first time in their lives they are bound to lose a lot. A friend of mine who isn’t overweight gave up soda for a week and lost 5 lbs. These contestants on this show have given up more than a daily soda soda so it didn’t surprise me to see big numbers.

Now week two is more realistic. The numbers are a lot smaller but heck they are normal. All of them did so good. One week is not a lot of time to even lose one pound. My poor yellow team did so well but because they took the bait of money they missed there goal and were placed in the bottom. The problem is they showed they were a threat. They showed the other teams how much they want to win.

This is good but at the beginning it is dangerous. You want to fly under the radar the first couple of weeks so others won’t vote you off. They got lucky that the grey team fell below the line. They are huge guys and could be a huge threat since they have more weight to lose and we all know guys lose weight faster than girls too.

I was sad to see the grey team go but was happy to see yellow still in the game. Coleen worked hard and she and her dad deserve to be there. I felt sad for L.T. because he gained weight this week but as watched the after the show re-cap he looked great (as did his dad) and there are no worries that he will continue to do well at home. Both Tom and L.T. are going to good contenders for the at home winner.

After last weeks post NBC sent me some links to some unseen footage. I don’t know if they will do this every week or not. However, they did tell me if you go to their official website each week you can find unseen footage from that week.
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This seasons Biggest Loser theme is families. My favorite quote from this first episode was “they were born into it or sworn into it”. Jillian is going to pummel the parent/children into healthy lifestyles while Bob takes on the married couples. Let me just say the married couples should be happy they have Bob because Jillian is mean. I am not hating on Jillian. If I were on the show she would be the trainer I would want. I am just saying she is rough. But like Ed from the orange team said, “all this suckiness is worth every minute of it”.

As I was watching the show my prediction was that the brown team would lose. I didn’t want them to lose I just thought they would. In fact I thought they were one of the teams who needed the most help. When we first met the brown team I thought I heard their little boy order 4 donuts. Can he really eat 4 donuts? I can’t imagine letting my child eat 4 donuts in one sitting. No wonder their other child weighs 64 pounds at 4 years old. She weighs as much as my 4 year and one year old combined. I don’t mean to be harsh but this almost seems like child abuse. They are slowly killing their children. But on a positive note they know they need help and are trying to learn healthy living habits so they can return home and help their children. And I couldn’t have been more wrong. Not only weren’t they up for elimination they placed first! Go Brown! I love you.

I was happy to see green go. I think they were great. They were strong competitors. I just think they can go home and do well. From the update at the end of the show it looks like they have done just that. They look great!

And now my own predictions for who I want to make it to the end.
After the first hour I knew I wanted Jerry and his daughter, Coleen to make it far in the competition. I am always a sucker for the weakest link. I felt bad for Jerry and his bad health. I also found him to be quite humble and teachable which I think will help him a lot in this competition

By the end of the show I was a brown team fan.. I hope they make it all the way to the end too.

What are your predictions? And if you were on the show which trainer would you want?