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Bonzacat
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07-08-2003

Sunday, November 01, 2009 - 6:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonzacat a private message Print Post    
LOL! I Goggled forever too. For an "InStyle" cover photo of Abby. I gave up and went out for the afternoon. And I walked by a newsstand..... Sweet Jesus, it's "Life & Style" magazine!!!



http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/

Bonzacat
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07-08-2003

Sunday, November 01, 2009 - 6:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonzacat a private message Print Post    
I Goggled and then I Googled, promise.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, November 01, 2009 - 6:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Googled wearing goggles!

Seattlemom
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05-10-2005

Sunday, November 01, 2009 - 8:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seattlemom a private message Print Post    
WOW she looks awesome!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, November 01, 2009 - 9:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
The online article had an even greater picture, in a dress and she looks super.. really happy for her.

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

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Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, November 02, 2009 - 1:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Bingo!

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Monday, November 02, 2009 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
I still can't figure out how she manages to continue breathing. I am so in awe of her emotional strength.

Cricket
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08-05-2002

Monday, November 02, 2009 - 12:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cricket a private message Print Post    
Rissa, I know...how hard must it be for her to gon on every day. She's such a sweet person and looks absolutely fantastic.

Lotsofkids
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08-11-2007

Monday, November 02, 2009 - 3:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lotsofkids a private message Print Post    
sorry about giving the wrong magazine!! after I posted I saw I was wrong but someone else had already corrected!! She looks AWESOME!!

Panda
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07-15-2005

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 1:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Panda a private message Print Post    
she looks great!!
my heart goes out to her

Bonzacat
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 6:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonzacat a private message Print Post    
Abby was on Ellen today - she looks fantastic!

(No video of the interview is on Ellen's site as of today.)

Carlpsmom
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01-03-2004

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 7:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Carlpsmom a private message Print Post    
Did anyone watch this evening? Just wondering who went home.

Gumby
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 8:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Gumby a private message Print Post    
It was between Liz and Tracey. Tracey went home. They showed her at home and she's lost 85 pounds so far and looks great. Next week's preview says that two people go home. Pretty good show tonight.

Kookliebird
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08-04-2005

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - 8:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kookliebird a private message Print Post    
If Tracey went home, I may need to watch it.

Stray_cat
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Abby Rike Interview On Ellen Show 11/03/2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhimjdcHKSs

Vsmart
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02-10-2003

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 6:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vsmart a private message Print Post    
About time T. Game players regain the weight since they are only there for the money.

Mamabatsy
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08-05-2005

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I found Tracey's facial expressions really upsetting. I'd often have to close my eyes when she was on screen. For some reason I got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when she twisted her face. I'm very glad she is gone.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 8:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
I'm not sure she really learned her lesson fully. She kept justifying her early behavior as "playing the game' and "some people don't like that". She didn't seem to really ever get that there might be something wrong with it, or even that it wasn't a good way to "play the game" since she got voted off because of it.

Still, she seems to have learned some things about weight loss and being active; and she had a really really cute family. :-)

Panda
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07-15-2005

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 9:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Panda a private message Print Post    
Her family was very cute indeed!

Cricket
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08-05-2002

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 11:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cricket a private message Print Post    
Karuuna, she did say she was a target because of the way she played the game. She then went on to say she was playing for herself, so I'm not sure she did get it.

I was shocked that she had 4 children. Could have been the editing, but they never showed her talking about them and they weren't on her video...just her husband.

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

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It felt like there was alot edited out of the voting comments last night.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 - 6:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I was fine with her going home. She looks great!

Seamonkey
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11/03/2009 Week 8

ColorNameAgeHeightStarting
Weight
Previous
Weight
Current
Weight
New LossWeek's %*Total*
Loss
This Wk
Finale
ORANG
BLACK
Bob
Daniel
student
205'8"454
312
272261-11-4.04193
51
safe
BROWN
BLACK
Jillian
Danny
musician
395'11"430345333-12-3.4892safe
PINK
BLACK
Jillian
Amanda
nursing student
America's Choice
205'6"250214207-7-3.2743safe
GREEN
BLUE
Bob
Allen
firefighter
445'11"325262253-9-2.7172safe
BLUE
BLUE
Bob
Rudy
engineer
316'4"442341332-9-2.64110safe
ORANG
BLACK
Jillian
Shay
social worker
305'8"476402393-9-2.2483safe
PINK
BLUE
Bob
Rebecca
nanny
255'6"279223219-4-1.7961immune
PURPL
BLUE
Bob
Tracey
homemaker
375'2"238197194-35-1.5243below line
out week 8
BROWN
BLUE
Bob
Liz
grandmother
495'7"267221218-3-1.3649won pop challenge
uses pass to sit out stage 2 of challenge
below line
GREEN
BLACK
Jillian
Abby
teacher
355'4"247204201-3-1.4746Out week 7
BLUE
BLACK
Jillian
Dina
custodian
285'5"253223218-5-2.2435Out week 6
PURPL
BLUE
Bob
Mo
coach
566'2"355318312-6-1.8943Out week 5
BLACKJulio
mortgage loan officer
396'0"407368364-4-1.0943Out week 4
REDAntoine
health insurance agent
236'0"367341330-11-3.2337below line
out week 3
REDSean
youth pastor
296'2"444411405-6-1.4639wt counted
below line
out week 3
BLACKAlexandra
college student
205'8"309309296-13-3.63T13Out Week 1


Alli congratulates both teams for making it to week 8.

Allen, Rudy, Rebecca, Liz and Tracey

Shay, Amanda, Danny, Daniel

Important to take advantage of all of your time on campus, you are looked to by public. You have opportunity to help stop obesity. Next 7 days you will do everything to help your fellow Americans live healthier. Going to Washington, DC. Get packed, see you at the Jefferson Memorial.

They board a Jet Blue plane. We are subjected to Tracey and other confessionals. Several mention not using seat belt extenders, etc. And then a big blatant Jet Blue ad.

We see scenes of Washington, DC (I was born there!!)

They are pumped! (I find myself wishing that Dina and Abby were there)

Alli lets them know that Bob and Jillian are there too. And they are also pumped.

They get to speak to congressmen and visit the White House.

Arrgh.. had lots more and got a power out and lost everything from today.

Alli did make a point that Shay was the only one left in the game who still weighs over 400 pounds.

They found out that they had a pop challenge and the winner will get a substantial advantage in the later challenge. They had to canvass the area and recruit followers to come to a mass workout with Bob and Jillian. Whichever of them had the most followers would win. There was much rivalry going on. Amanda had recruited a large number of young women who remembered when she won the viewer vote last season at the finale. Allen went to a fire station and asked for them to get the word out to support him, Liz played the "I'm old and not cute" card and charmed people. Daniel basically hijacked most of Amanda's people because heaven knows, everyone seems to support Daniel, no matter what! ICK.

But in the end there were two in real contention and LIZ won out over Allen by one vote!

Liz, as the winner, also got to take all of her supporters to Subway. Jillian also went along for that.

Bob seemed to get off on taking charge of the mass workout, while Jillian went into the crowd and worked with individuals. After awhile, Bob did go into the crowd as well.

Oh.. prior to that Alli informed them they were now competing individually.. so they are back to their original colors. Daniel made a big deal in confession that NOW he could just work on his own, which seemed disingenuous considering how often he's been saved this season. Rudy was pleased to be working alone.

They meet with members of Congress to talk about problems of obesity. (Sheesh! Political product placement, even). They are enjoying giving their input. Daniel blames lack of education, lack of health and PE in schools. Bob speaks up on that as well, "Daniel is the rule, not the exception". Jillian speaks about what is allowed in processed foods. Rebecca cries about being the chubby girl. Shay tells us this is great that they will sit with people they represent.

Challenge

Now they go to Constitution Gardens.. and Alli tells them they will go to four locations. There are four stages to today's challenge and to win you have to survive all four stages. Last person standing wins IMMMUNITY.

Stage 1: Constitution Gardens: Run one mile Alli says one mile means a lot, especially to Tracey.. they show Tracey not finished the first challenge on the beach.

Liz won the ability to skip one stage of today's challenge; she can skip this first mile, but has to keep in mind that she may wish she had saved her advantage for a later stage. Big advantage if she uses it correctly.

Liz chooses to compete in the one mile run. Alli says the bottom three in stage one are out. Liz worries, of course. She will just shoot herself if she wastes the pass.

Off they GO!! Rebecca and Allen out to early lead, Amanda in third, Rudy in fourth, Daniel in fifth, Rudy and Liz but Liz passes Rudy. She must stay ahead of him to stay in. Tracey and Shay at end but Tracey steams past Shay. Daniel says others are much faster than when he beat them all week 1. (ed. GO LIZ!) They show each of them in week one vs now. Tracey says she might be slow, but she WILL finish.

Rebecca first, Daniel, Allen, Then Amanda, Rudy and here comes Liz! They will compete in stage two.

Danny comes in seventh, then a big gap, followed by Tracey and then another big gap, then Shay. Others encourage them. All complete the mile.

Stage Two: Watergate steps in shadow of Lincoln Memorial 17,954 Pennies for each challenger.. they are up and down the steps. That is the number of pounds lost to date on BL.

They have to race halfway down, gather up as many pennies as they can and the back up to their bank. First four players to reach a line on their bank (a clear tube) go on to stage three.

Liz again can opt out of this stage. And in view of those steps, she says she will sit out this stage of the competition. Alli warns her that she will have to compete in stage 3 and to be able to win. Liz hopes this will wear them out.

Amanda, Rebecca, Rudy, Daniel, Allen will compete. Only three of them (plus Liz) will move to round three.

GO! Rudy off to a big start.. he points out he has BIG hands. He is taking two steps at a time. Daniel sort of whines about Rudy's hands as "banana hands". Allen wants this immunity.
Rudy clear lead, Daniel and Allen neck and neck. Amanda couldn't figure out how to pick up lots of pennies.

Rudy finishes first and way ahead.

Daniel is next though it looked like he should make one more trip to really fill it, but that would have posed no problem for him. Allen almost makes it, scoops pennies from the ground by the banks. Rebecca does the same. Down to the wire.. Alli all excited. (Rudy should have made that last trip for a handful..) Rebecca is third and she celebrates about beating Allen.

Rebecca, Liz, Daniel and Rudy will move on.

Stage Three: US Capitol building: Balance. There are cubes with ridges(or platforms with a narrow ledge) and exercise balls. They have to stay on the ridge longest while holding a Pilates Ball over their head. They stand with feet in line on the length of the ledge.

Rudy says his feet are so big. Daniel having trouble. Liz is lurching.

Daniel out first.

Rebecca, Liz or Rudy.. Two of them will move on. Rudy struggling. Rebecca looks solid. Rudy and Liz having trouble but Liz is out next.

Rudy and Rebecca will now compete for immunity. Rebecca snarks that it is ON.

Stage Four: White House: Two Hundred and Six steps There have been 206 contestants on BL.

They start stepping.

Rudy says it seems harder than he thought.

Rebecca is ahead at 69, by 7. Rudy says struggling but doing his best.

90 to 79
00 vs 90

Tracey says Rebecca is like a rabbit.

She is 30 ahead. She cannot lose unless she breaks a leg.

Rebecca wins immunity.

Tomorrow they get to go inside the White House. (Presidential lesson in healthy eating)

Bob pulls Amanda aside to talk about what she can control this week. Focus on diet. Crap.. it is a gum commercial.

They walk across the White House lawn. All are quite excited. They did let some of them wear long pants. They meet Chef Kass, in Michele Obama's personal garden. The President loves anything green. They girls are great eaters. Bob loves this administration because they have their own garden. They pick out ingredients for a salad. Seems like gigantic amounts for the size of the garden. Now they are in the White House Kitchen, meat the exec chef and prepare all the huge veggies. Pretty cool! We are told they like fish. Giant salad bowl! They all eat the salad. Bob talks about how cheap the salad was (ROFL!) Jillian is encouraged that the First Family sets the standards for all of us. NBC.com for the salad recipe.

More political product placement.. and for the state of Illinois.

Last Chance Workout at the Four Seasons Hotel. Jillian says now she gets to torture (work out) everyone, not just one team. Rudy says the pressure is ON for him. He worries about plateau.

Bob works Tracey, Danny.. says only has a couple of hours. Daniel.. Daniel says has had problems last couple of weeks but he is refocused now.

Liz, etc.. working on "burn".

Tracey on treadmill with Jillian. She says no secret she hasn't liked Tracey from day one. We see them working hard. Tracey is a game player, says Jillian. She needs to see that this is about so much more than game play. She works on motivating Tracey. Wants to get through to her, change your life, get your butt in the gym, lose blood sweat and tears, be different inside and out. Don't rely on winning temptation. Head and heart. Tracey cries. Tells us Jill is tough but has the biggest heart. With you every step of the way. Jillian says Tracey has had a breakthrough.

Bob tells Shay she will get in the 300s in Washington, DC.

Bob says to Amanda, "we're back, you and me". Tells us they are connected. Asks why Amanda ran out of the gym with Jillian last week (I wish bob would stop this mind game with Jillian crap). We see Amanda melting down and leaving the gym. She tells Bob she was just thinking "I want to talk to BOB" I didn't go to my friggin prom, etc.. Bob pep talks her. Says Amanda needs a little bit of that EXTRA attention and I'm prepared to give it to her. Amanda tells us she trusts Bob and he trusts her. She works so much harder next to Bob (hmm well use it while you have it, don't think he goes home with you for life)

They work on treadmill. Amanda feels like Bob is helping her reach a breakthrough.

Weigh in

Weigh in at Lincoln Memorial. ( I love that memorial and hate to associate this weigh in with that place) It is night, of course, and they show, as always, a big moon.

Danny points out it is you, the scale and the yellow line. No teams.

Alli says they are inspiring a nation. We see many insects being inspired by the TV lights.

Rebecca is immune this week. She will weigh in first. She loses 4 pounds, down to 219. 1.79%

Two people will fall below the yellow line and be in danger of elimination.

Next up is Shay. She hopes she can go below 400, but you never know. Shay loses 9 pounds and is down to 393!! 2.24% She's happy with that number. 83 pounds in 8 weeks.

Next is Tracey, including ominous music. Jillian hopes all that work pays off . She loses 3 pounds, down to 194. She's not pleased. Hopes to be above the line. 1.52%

Now we have Daniel on the scale. He's nervous and excited. Ready for a freaking good weigh in. Good week mentally. Ready for a big number. He loses 11 pounds, down to 261. 4.04%

Seven pounds away from losing 200 pounds total. He's really happy! He is also safe from elimination.

Up next we have Allen. He's hoping for a 6 or 7, but he's nervous. Needs to lose more than five to guarantee safety. He's safe; loses 9 pounds, down to 253. 2.71%

Now Danny comes to the scale. He's very nervous.. Needs to lose more than 7 pounds to be safe tonight. He loses 12, so he's safe. Down to 333 pounds. 3.19%

Tracey says her name keeps on dropping. She is scared; doesn't want to go home.

Rudy next to weigh in. He wants 10 or better but we weren't in our gym. Needs to lose more than 7 pounds to be safe. Loses 9. Down to 332. He's safe. 2.64%

So the four big guys are safe and Rebecca is immune. Shay and Tracey still in danger..

Liz and Amanda to weigh in still. Shay is worried.

Liz is up and says she knows she has not hit her burn a single day in DC. Must lose more than 4 pounds to be safe. Loses 3. Down to 218. 1.36%, she will be below the yellow line. Shay is safe. Worries that this could be her week to go.

Amanda is last up. She is nervous. Being that America chose me, I feel that it is very important to do the best I can in the nation's capital. I had BOB by my side.. To beat Tracey and be safe, must lose more than 3 pounds this week. She loses 7 pounds. Bob smirks a bit. Amanda is bubbling! She is safe. Tracey is not. 3.27%, down to 207, of course she runs to hug BOB. Bob is thrilled that Amanda lost the biggest amount, in DC, BACK WITH ME.

This leaves Tracey and Liz in bottom two. Will either fall on her sword? Wouldn't expect that. Liz looks sad; Tracey looks nauseous. Tracey is mad at herself. I need to be here; not finished.

Deliberation:

Time for Liz and Tracey to plead their cases. Liz was hoping it wouldn't come down to this. Hard to ask for help, tries to fight own battles. Says I want to stay! It is ultimately your decision. Danny looks sad.

Shay says she didn't fight for it! (HUH??) Shay votes off those who don't want to be here, don't need to be here, not biggest thread.

Stacey cries and makes an impassioned plea, which surely is good with Shay. Daniel asks if she is really hear for health and wellness, not just to win like she was earlier. She pleads. All look at her. Please keep me here, please, she pleads. Amanda says her plea was like an apology, but she screwed me over. But Amanda sees Liz as a bigger threat (ed seems like Liz is toast.. she is seen as bigger threat by some and bootable and not worthy by others and thus bootable.} Stacey tells us she wants to stay.

Voting:

Amanda votes off (came in with close bond, never betray me, she did it) TRACEY

Shay wants to see people fight to be here and have that passion, votes LIZ

Danny of course votes TRACEY

Daniel, tough decision grown to like and respect both of them. More here and enough at home, voted for TRACEY

Rebecca, both team mates for me. Don't know what this person is going to do, so.. other person needs to be here to break down her layers TRACEY

Tracey will go home Alli says it sounds like some of the early choices you made, came back to bite you. Tracey says she thought she had to play the game, but... it bit her. She's ok.

She tells us she had to play the game and it came back to bite her. Loving yourself is really heard. Loves the new me. Happier.

We see her arrive back home, really excited to see her husband and four children. There is a helicopter to pick her up. She remembers the first day when she was medevaced.. This time she's in a nice dress and smiling. Beautiful view. Old Tracey is dead and gone. She's really thankful to BL. The copter brings her to a huge welcome home party in a big park. We see husband and kids.. quite a huge welcome! She strikes a pose on the copter and runs to her husband. He has missed her and is thrilled to have her back. Her daughter Hannah says it was so hard having her mom gone. Little daughter is scooped up and they have a group hug. The copter leaves.

She talks about collapsing in the sand and being in the hospital. Back in California, running the mile again.. She looks terrific! She finishes what she starts. Ah the same mile, of course.. her family at the finish line 11:22 Hannah thanks us again. There is a sign behind them for Biggest Loser protein. She has lost 85 pounds and is training to run in a full marathon

Mindeegap
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http://www.nbc.com/the-biggest-loser/video/clips/week-8-tracey/1172298/

Tracey looks amazing and has lost 85 lbs. Here she answers some questions.