TBL - Lauren is impressed by players she doesn't like

At the beginning of this show, to no one's surprise, the game went into "singles". I knew this was right around the corner because:
1. The blue team was so inferior to the black team, it was just sad.
2. Due to #1, the blue team was almost extinct.
3. Filipe & Sione were already refusing to work with Jillian, so the teams were all screwed up.

The players got to pick their own trainer. Most weren't too surprising:
Bob - Filipe, Sione, Kristen, Ron & Aubrey
Jillian - Tara, Laura, Mike & Helen
Probably the biggest surprise was that Mike didn't go back with his father. I think Mike prefers being around the ladies, personally. There was quite a bit of boo-hoo-ing during the choices. I don't know what they're whining about. At least they get the choice of who to work with. And despite the contestants' co-dependent outlook, I'm guessing the trainers didn't go home and cry over the people that didn't pick them.


There was a 2-part challenge for immunity. In the first part, everyone got to take the amount of weight that they had lost so far and put it on someone else. As guessed, Tara was a HUGE target and ended up with 257lbs of weight. For some weird reason, Helen ended up with the 2nd most weight. She doesn't seem like a big threat at all, so I guess people just don't like her? This should have been taken as a HUGE compliment on Tara's part. She is a huge threat, she has lost the biggest percentage of weight so far, she is always winning challenges... But, for some reason she takes it as a reason to cry and want to quit. Um, ok. I'm winning this game, but I think I'm going to give up? This mental instability is why you got fat in the first place. Shockingly, Laura is able to talk some sense into her.


For the second part of the challenge, they took the weight that each person had been given and added it to a car. Each contestant had to pull the car + the extra weight (+ a driver which no one mentioned) for a 1/2 mile. Sione started out fast with Mike in 2nd place. Tara got a burst of competitive juices and ended up coming back to beat them all, even pulling more weight than anyone. (Are you sure Sione's driver wasn't riding the break?) I am not a big Tara fan, but I was impressed with that move. She won immunity and basically put it back in everyone's faces that gave her weight. Then she got to do a victory lap and some donuts with Nascar driver Clint Funk... I mean Clint Bowyer. It looked REALLY fun!

At the weigh-in, both Kristen & Tara had the chance to be the first women to ever lose 100lbs on campus. Both fell short of this goal last week. Tara needed to lose 4 lbs, but only lost 3... So, Kristen stepped up and lost 8, beating the 100 lb mark. In a huge surprise, Ron lost another 10 lbs. Two 10 lb weeks in a row? Who is that guy? I am almost starting to consider him a contestant... Ron couldn't enjoy his 10 lb weight loss though because it almost pushed Mike under the yellow line. It ended up being Aubrey & Filipe under the yellow line. I wonder who Filipe can blame now? He has had 3 weeks of bad weigh-ins now. (Or was it 2?) Either way, he was blaming it on Jillian, but now that he is back with his man-crush Bob, I'm not sure who he can point fingers at.

I kind of thought it was a no-brainer to vote Filipe out. He is much more of a danger than Aubrey. She is smaller and just not that great. But, as usual this season, the contestants voted with their hearts instead of their heads and sent Aubrey home.

Back at home, Aubrey hoped to get down to 125 lbs by the finale. Again with the pretty unrealistic goals. Aubrey is about my height, and let's just say 125 is a weight I haven't seen since the freshman 15. And to start things off on the right foot back home, Aubrey goes ahead and packs on 9lbs. Wrong direction dumbass! I'm going on record right now to say that if Aubrey weighs 125 at the finale, I will give up cookies for a month.