It is getting down to the wire on the hit NBC reality show The Biggest Loser. With the finale looming and six contestants left, Kristin Steede found herself below the line again, this time with Helen.
As expected, Filipe and Ron had Kristin’s back but Tara and Mike voted for Helen. Because Kristin had the lowest weight loss for the week, which was actually a shocking weight gain of one pound, she was sent packing back to her husband Nick and her business in Greenville, Wisconsin. Upon parting she said, “I may not be The Biggest Loser but I won my life back.”
We were shown a recent film clip of Kristin, 29, speaking to a group of 200 women about her weight loss experiences. At the end of a question and answer session, she stepped out from behind a podium with a pair of her old jeans held up in front of her body. When she dropped the pants we saw that the business woman was wearing a gorgeous tailored suit. At the time that the segment was taped, she had lost 132 pounds, down 16 from when she left the Biggest Loser campus.
Episode 716 Recap: the group participated in an interesting challenge in which they were playing for $10,000 or a one pound weight advantage at weigh in. The six contestants were hoisted up in wire cages to a height of 45 feet in the air. Their task was to grasp one end of a rope in order to keep their cage from dropping. Helen gave Tara a run for her money but in the end, Tara took the prize. She opted to take the cash in order to move into a new apartment at the end of the competition.
The group also took a Good Housekeeping nutrition quiz that came down to a tie between Kristin and Mike for a three day all expenses paid trip for two to New York City. The tie breaker had the two guessing the number of calories in a fast food fish sandwich with tartar sauce which contained 640 calories. Mike came within 5 calories to win the challenge.
At weigh-in, Mike lost 8 pounds, Tara lost 5, Ron lost 4, which put him at 298 for the first time in 40 years. Filipe lost 3 pounds, Helen lost 1 and Kristin gained 1.
Next week will be the last weigh-in at the ranch before one final person is eliminated and the top four are announced. The finale will be a live two-hour show on Tuesday, May 12.
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