TV Review: The Biggest Loser - Episode 15

Part of: The Biggest Loser

Week 15 of The Biggest Loser began with the remaining contestants, Ali, Kelli, Roger, and Mark returning from their previous week in Australia.

Host Allison Sweeney and Chef Rocco met them. Each contestant's family had been contacted and Rocco had made each of their favorite, high-fat dishes.

Roger's mother had given Rocco a recipe for her famous pepper steak. Her recipe has 1700 calories. Rocco showed Roger how to make the same meal so that it only contains 400 calories.

Mark's wife told Rocco that Mark had a habit of putting a gallon of mint chocolate chip ice cream on his stomach and eating the entire gallon in one sitting. Rocco made the same ice cream with half the calories.

Ali's mother told Rocco how to make prime rib and a loaded baked potato. Rocco made a similar dinner that dropped the calorie count from 1500 to 511.

Kelli's mother told Rocco about Kelli's chicken Alfredo and breadstick fetish. Rocco reduced the calorie content of this meal from 1500 to 500.

The challenge this week had the contestants don weighted "fat suits" that were the exact amount of weight lost by each to date. Mark and Roger were carrying over 100 pounds each, Ali and Kelli were each carrying over 80 pounds. When they had the suits on, they had to race down the beach to their respective flag, shed the fat suit, and then run up a hill with the large flag to the finish line.

There were some pretty good comments made during the task.  Ali commented, "I spent 15 weeks taking this weight off and you're gonna make me put it back on???"  For his part, Roger noted that he was "used to seeing Mark's ass" because Mark always seems to take the lead in the challenges.  Kelli said of the flag, "Couldn't we have gotten anything more aerodynamic?" as we saw the wind whip her off balance.

Mark, as usual, won the challenge and received $10,000 plus having all his meals prepared for him by The Biggest Loser staff until the final weigh-in.

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