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Jodied75
Member
08-26-2004
| Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 7:29 pm
Kooklie, Dan was the other, which is why I was wondering why he didn't keep going, since he had all that gum!
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 7:38 pm
Darn it, I completely forgot it was on tonight. Where is my head?
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 8:07 pm
I pulled this from another website regarding the temptation: The machine is cross-wired so the usual method of determining row and column doesn’t deliver a predictable result. Players enter the room one at a time to play, unobserved by the others. It looks like there’s about fifty possible choice combinations. The only other rule is that your turn ends either when you say it does, or if you get the special “Pass” card. Roger volunteers to go first. Gum! $1,000! He takes a second pull and gets a bag of chips, so he has gum. His third pull is the one-pound pass. Excellent. Dan goes next, and in four unfortunate pulls, gets junk foods worth 1,100 calories. He admits to feeling poorly from eating them, but tries once more. Finally, he gets gum. He decides to push on and gets on a roll. I suspect he partially cracked their scramble code. Over several pulls, he hits jackpots for a total of $9,500! He wishes he had won the pass, but he quits, satisfied. Jay gets the pass on his first pull. Yahtzee! Kelly is next. She gets a Twinkie worth 150 calories, and follows it up with more bad things. After her fourth failure, she’s burping and almost ready to hurl. Kelly quits after absorbing 870 calories in four cash- and pass-exclusive rounds, because she doesn’t think she can keep any more junk food down. Poor dear! It’s Bernie’s turn. Round one delivers and unwanted 250 calories, but he follows that up with a gum pack worth $2,500… and follows it with a coveted free pass. Bernie celebrates heartily and says he loves the machine and wants one in his house! Brittany follows, with a nasty 440 calories on her first pull… but then she gets yet another one-pound pass! Are these guys passing signals?! Finally, it’s Maggie’s turn. One pull, one pass! Yahtzee again, and Maggie dances a dance previously seen only in secluded, bear-infested sections of upstate Jersey. Holy factorial 49, what are the odds? By the way, “factorial 49” is mathie talk, except I don’t really remember that stuff properly these days! To summarize, Kelly and Dan racked up the calories, and everyone else got a one-pound pass.
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 8:32 pm
BOB, Weight loss for the week Kelly - 6 Dan - 8 Brittney - 5 Jay - 6 Maggie - 6 Roger - 9 Bernie - 6 I took those from the Wikipedia site, which has a really good chart of weight losses over the weeks and overall weights every week.
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 9:06 pm
Thanks Neko. Assuming I entered the numbers correctly, here's the latest standings:
Name | Start Weight | BMI | Current Loss | | Current Weight | BMI | Current % Loss | | Final Weight 40% Loss | BMI | Still To Lose | | Final Weight 50% Loss | BMI | Still To Lose | Dan | 310 | 47.1 | 99 | | 211 | 32.0 | 31.93 | | 186 | 28.2 | 25.0 | | 155 | 23.5 | 56.0 | Roger | 363 | 45.3 | 104 | | 259 | 32.3 | 28.65 | | 217.8 | 27.2 | 41.2 | | 181.5 | 22.6 | 77.5 | Jay | 293 | 38.6 | 78 | | 215 | 28.3 | 26.62 | | 175.8 | 23.1 | 39.2 | | 146.5 | 19.3 | 68.5 | Kelly | 271 | 43.7 | 65 | | 206 | 33.2 | 23.98 | | 162.6 | 26.2 | 43.4 | | 135.5 | 21.8 | 70.5 | Maggie | 239 | 42.3 | 55 | | 184 | 32.5 | 23.01 | | 143.4 | 25.3 | 40.6 | | 119.5 | 21.1 | 64.5 | Brittany | 221 | 34.6 | 47 | | 174 | 27.2 | 21.26 | | 132.6 | 20.7 | 41.4 | | 110.5 | 17.3 | 63.5 |
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 10:27 pm
Sigh.. what made me see Jay's name and see Dan's face??
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Snuffles
Member
07-17-2005
| Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 3:09 am
open auditions here in Los Angeles and I'm curious if anyone has been to an open audition; what to expect; what to bring; how many people; and advice. all suggestions appreciated
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 3:47 am
I haven't but I'd say just be yourself (or the person be his/herself), and I guess as a couple have some storyline and show motivation. And if they let you bring support people.. well.. let us know. I know I'd drive up. It really is quite an opportunity!
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Dovez
Member
08-27-2005
| Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 9:51 am
sea, you are the queen of tvchers !!!
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 3:00 pm
I 2nd that Dovez!! WTG Sea!! Also Snuffles when Bob etc were on the Larry King show they said that they look for people that can safely lose 50% of their weight... and have a "story"
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 4:00 pm
Right.. they said that you have to have the potential to safely lose that amount but then cannot be so heavy that you couldn't be cleared for exercise (which would include some of the people who go on Dr Phil at 700-800.. they also can start exercise but simply need a longer program than BL can support in their timeframe.
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 8:26 pm
From Bob's chart, there is NO WAY Brittany can win this. She's got ot be around 5'8" and to be 110lbs, she'd look SO emaciated!! It'd be one thing is she was short, but she's a pretty tall girl. Maggie's short than Brittany, but 119 pounds for 50% weight loss is still too low I think. Kelly's the only woman right now even close to being able to win this, but I don't think she can cause she's got NO self esteem in herself, so I think the moment she goes home, she will BOMB. If they get a chance to get rid of Dan, they should, cause he's a competitor. However, depending on which 2 come back next week, they might be the ones to worry about.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 8:40 pm
So, I read an article about why the men take their shirts off during the weigh-in. As we proably already knew, the scales are not real at the weigh in. They weigh beforehand and the 'tv scale' only shows their weight. So, why to they take off their shirts. Apparently, it's a psychological reason. They have spent so much of their lives 'hiding' their weight, that they are encouraged to be comfortable in their real self by shedding their shirts (even if we don't like seeing the man-boobs).
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 9:27 pm
I'm 6'. At my lowest, I was 113 lbs!! A little too thin?
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Snuffles
Member
07-17-2005
| Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 10:25 pm
Thank you Sea and Reader, I appreciate the information and the support. I can shed 50% of my weight and not be underweight... I believe one of my medical situations might keep me from getting closer to being on the show (i have bi-lateral carpel tunnel which could make me awful at any of the hand/arm-centric competitions or exercises - I'm personally hoping they've dealt with that and know how to help me work around it). Otherwise I'm game, I'm going, I'm gonna give 'em my best and see where it goes. I'll let you know.
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Friday, March 07, 2008 - 10:50 am
Kookliebird, did you notice they all left their shirts on this week for the weigh in? Men and women.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Friday, March 07, 2008 - 1:44 pm
Bo - You are right, I didn't yell "my eyes, my eyes!!" this week during the weigh in. The big guys are probably getting too much loose skin by now.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Friday, March 07, 2008 - 4:26 pm
Snuffles, do it and know we will all be cheering for you! I am sure the trainers could work around your health issues and use it for a way to show people that things like that are no excuse to avoid working out. You just need a bit of help to figure out what works best for your body. I know all of the trainers of my gym enjoy that sort of challenge and you know that a tv trainer would really love it.
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, March 07, 2008 - 4:32 pm
Colordeagua, I don't know whether you're agreeing with me or not, but at 113 lbs at 6 feet tall, you would have been considered underweight. With those measurements, that puts your BMI at 15.3, which is considered too low. Of course, BMI calculators don't take into account for athletic people etc. I have seen people who look perfectly fine even when they're considered borderline underweight, but most people I've seen that are underweight, tend to get the look of someone with an eating disorder. Brittney's BMI with 110.5 pound puts her at only 1% under "normal" weight, but I still think she'd look like all skin and bones at that weight.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Saturday, March 08, 2008 - 8:04 am
Mark was featured on the Today show this week ..and I believe he said he has lost 116 pounds. I thought he looked much too thin and am thinking he is in this to win the money.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Saturday, March 08, 2008 - 6:20 pm
I sort of wonder if they also get a bit addicted to losing weight replacing their food addiction with the exercise and weight loss. If you spend 3 months focusing on weight loss and exercise, I think it would be hard, on your own, to move into a maintenance program. Especially when you know that there's a final TV appearance.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Sunday, March 09, 2008 - 6:21 am
I agree. I have had that happen losing weight. All of a sudden you decide you are good at it and it gets in your system. I never got carried away with it, but there is a level of control that you don't want to let go of. Part of that is the fear that the food will start to control you again. In Mark's case I think he is just such a competitor that wants to win the "at home" prize. The best outcome for their family would be for his brother to be the biggest loser and him to be the biggest home winner. I am sure that is his intent.
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Shel
Member
07-27-2005
| Sunday, March 09, 2008 - 8:41 am
Just like last year. :-)
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Snuffles
Member
07-17-2005
| Monday, March 10, 2008 - 4:41 pm
I went to the open auditions - it was interesting. They said you could start lining up at 7am, but people apparently were there since 4am! I got there 2 minutes before 7am and there were already 173 people in line! They gave us a shortened application to fill out. We (me and my friend Maija) were interviewed around noon and they took 6 people in at a time and gave the interview only 7 minutes with us. So in that time, we had to stand out somehow. When we got in at the interview, the interviewer had energy and enthusiasm but our group didn't - we were dull (I was still trying to figure out what we were "allowed" to do -- sometimes I'm too much "by the book" argh!). Anyway, they only asked us our name, age, occupation, where are you from and how much we wanted to lose. Then, with 1 minute left, she asked one word answers to the question "what would you do if you lost all the weight?". So, at the end, they said they'd call us by 9pm if they wanted a 2nd interview with us which would have been mon or tue. I didn't get a call and neither did Maija. They did remind us we could apply via mail still (by the 12th) and so that's what I'm doing today with Maija - making a video. If this doesn't pan out... Weight Watchers has my back right now. 
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 6:10 pm
Any updates on the show tonight?
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