The Biggest Loser: It Was Inevitable

This week's The Biggest Loser was a refreshing one in that it was only an hour long! I've seriously had it with shows stretching what should fit into one hour into two. So to say that I appreciated this episode being only one hour long is an understatement!

Because the finale is next week, this episode was filled with a bunch of emotional who-ha. It started with Bob talking to Neil who is his last remaining blue team member. Then Jillian's black team members went through their spiels.

At their last challenge, each person must drag a gigantic scale behind them through their specified lane. Their lane was marked in intervals corresponding to a specific week in the competition. At each interval, they had to put the amount of weight that they had lost onto their scale and continue to the next stop. Once they were dragging all of their lost weight behind them on the scale, they had to turn around and drag it back to the finish line. When they got there they had to dump their weight and the scale into a pit and raise their flag. After that, a huge load of dirt would be dropped into the pit "burying" their weight. The winner would receive a cool $10,000 to help them ease the transition of returning home until the live finale.

The challenge wasn't that much of a challenge at all -- at least not for Isabeau. She handily whooped the others and Bill literally ate her dust. I was glad to see the others continue on though to finish it out.

After their last chance workouts, it was time for their final weigh-in before the live finale. Neil lost another 11 pounds (3.47%), Hollie lost 5 pounds (2.55%), Bill lost 9 pounds (4.23%), Julie lost 8 pounds (4.76%), and Isabeau lost 8 pounds (3.56%). Over the course of the competition so far, Neil has managed to lose a whopping 143 pounds. Bill has lost a total of 130 pounds so far and Isabeau has shed 81 pounds. At this point in the competition out of all of the seasons, Isabeau has become the woman to lose the most weight.

Unfortunately for Hollie and Neil, one of them would be eliminated. Once I knew that Neil was below the yellow line, I knew it would be him going home. After all, he was the last blue team member left standing. For the first time in the show's history, the final members remaining belong to all of one team -- Jillian's black team. Neil was gracious in leaving though. He said he was so glad to have made it this far and that he was ready to start the next chapter of his life with a special girl. He also said that it was an honor and a privilege to be there with everybody and wished them good luck. Upon leaving though, he grabbed an ice cream cone from his food locker and handed it to Bill! LOL! On Neil's follow-up back at home, we saw that he now weighs 257 pounds. He has now lost 165 pounds since the start of the show. Wow.

To close out the show, Jillian met with each member of her team. They were introduced to a life-sized cardboard cutout of them "before" and all of them had a hard time believing that they were that big. Jillian gave each of them some kind words and it was then time for them to leave the campus and continue their weight loss back at home.

Next week on the finale, we'll get to see their emotional homecomings and the live weigh-ins. Who will take home the $250,000? Who do you want it to be?