At the Los Angeles Coliseum, Alison introduces the twenty contestants for the season, they who are all former athletes, including some former professional athletes and former Olympians. She also introduces the three trainers for the season, who include now Biggest Loser training veteran Dolvett, and two newbies to the Biggest Loser family, Jessie and Jen. For their first workout at the Biggest Loser Ranch, the twenty contestants are under the tutelage of all three trainers, who get a feel for who are among the group. In general, Dolvett can see the former athletes come out as what he considers the best first workout he has ever been a part of on the show. The contestants are then thrown into their first individual challenge, which combines aspects of beach volleyball and an obstacle course. The prizes are the choice of trainer for the season, where there are six open spots per trainer. With only eighteen spots, the last two to complete the challenge are automatically eliminated. After... Written by Huggo

The first elimination weigh-in finds Zina leaving Comeback Canyon, and Andrea, as the voted eliminated contestant from the ranch, joining Vanessa at Comeback Canyon with Bob. Andrea is intimidated to be against a former professional athlete in Vanessa, but believes she is up to the challenge, which will only be proved at the end of the week weigh-in. The trainers at the ranch believe they have to share their own stories with their respective teams to get them to feel safe sharing their own stories, which are a large part of why they have gained weight from their previous athlete selves. Jessie in particular feels he needs to do so as the freshman trainer on the ranch who has already lost a team member and who feels the need to prove himself by ensuring that the Blue Team does not lose the next weigh-in. Each of the ranch trainers does have those problem team members who have yet to have that mental breakthrough. The team reward challenge is an obstacle course, but also entails both ... Written by Huggo

At the last sets of weigh-ins, Vanessa is eliminated at Comeback Canyon sending her home, while Emmy joins Andrea at Comeback Canyon. Bob learns that many of the reasons for Emmy's family's weight issues are external to her own home. At the ranch, the trainers provide what they hope will be longer term motivation for the entire contingent of contestants. Akin to baseball, Alison announces that this week will have a double header style of team challenges. The first challenge is a combination nutrition knowledge/food temptation one, the latter issue with a bit a of a twist that affects one specific team member. The winning team of the first challenge wins a two pound advantage at the weigh-in. The second challenge in the double header is a team cycling challenge, with the winning team the first collectively to get to the Olympic triathlon standard of 40km. Staying on the double header theme, the winning team of that second challenge wins a four pound advantage at the weigh-in. The first... Written by Huggo

At the last sets of weigh-ins, Andrea is eliminated at Comeback Canyon sending her home, while Chandra joins Emmy at Comeback Canyon. By what Bob can see during the week and based on weight loss history at the ranch, he believes this may be the first week that the longer time resident of Comeback Canyon will stay for a third week. At the ranch, Alison tells the contestants that there will be a lottery this week, the last person's name who comes up being the winner of the lottery. The prize: a trip home for the week. The catch: theirs will be the only weight that will count for their team for the week's weigh-in. Their trainer will also accompany them, leaving the remaining team members to fend for themselves for the week. The person who ultimately wins the lottery states that the trip home will be treated like a business trip. That person's trainer, who does admit to feeling some pressure, hopes that a sense of place will provide some motivation, most specifically for the last ... Written by Huggo

At the last sets of weigh-ins, Emmy is eliminated at Comeback Canyon sending her home, while Mike joins Chandra at Comeback Canyon. His arrival makes it a battle between youth and age, and between the biggest loser thus far against one of the people who has lost the least amount. Back at the ranch, the contestants learn of their challenge which is a four man relay pulling one's own weight across a 600 foot long rope suspended 10 stories over a canyon. The reward is more a penalty against another team, as the winning team has the choice to sideline one person from any of the opposing two teams from this week's weigh-in. Woody fears he may be a liability to his white team, who have yet to lose a challenge or a weigh-in, as he is deathly afraid of heights. However, it is another contestant who ultimately feels like the weakest link. At the weigh-in, the two teams that did not win the reward challenge feel the pressure as Alison tells them that this week will mark the first time this ... Written by Huggo

At the last sets of weigh-ins, Chandra is eliminated at Comeback Canyon sending her home, while Matt, as the first casualty of the White Team, joins Mike at Comeback Canyon. Bob is looking forward to this battle as he sees both Mike and Matt as potentially going all the way to the finale. Bob receives a gift which he believes he will be able to use for others. The ranch contestants head off the ranch for a tailgate party at Los Angeles Coliseum, and their first temptation challenge. Each contestant is given three minutes alone in a tent full of every kind of unhealthy stadium type food available. The contestant who eats the most calories wins the challenge, and what on the surface is the most lucrative reward, namely immunity at the next weigh-in. However, that silver lining does have a cloud as their weight will still count toward their team's weight, with this week having a red line. Each of those who ate speak to their respective trainer about their thought process. Separate from ... Written by Huggo

At the last sets of weigh-ins, Mike is eliminated at Comeback Canyon sending him home, while Gina joins Matt at Comeback Canyon. Bob designs the workout to deal with both Matt and Gina's issues, Matt's being working in a team to achieve goals and Gina's to deal with committing to fear inducing tasks. At the ranch, Jessie takes Lori back in history to get her to a better place emotionally. The contestants and their trainers head to the pool for the team challenge, which entails three contestants per team holding onto to 15% of their body weight to prevent their trainer from falling into the pool. The first team to drop their trainer will not have access to their trainer at all for the week. The second team to drop their trainer will only have their trainer for the last chance workout. In the aftermath of the challenge, one person from the losing team goes back to their athlete days to take control of their training for the week. The team with only their trainer for the last chance ... Written by Huggo

At the last sets of weigh-ins, Matt is eliminated at Comeback Canyon sending him home, while Jackie joins Gina at Comeback Canyon. Beyond the issue of losing weight, Bob wants to instill in Gina and Jackie, who are both mothers, that a large part of their process is putting their own needs if not ahead then equal to that of the rest of their family. At the ranch, the contestants learn that their reward challenge is more putting their competing teams in the penalty box, the team winning the challenge who can assign the preset penalties, one team who will have to do cleaning chores at the ranch before they can do their workouts, while the other team will be sent away to Las Vegas without access to their trainer for the week. The challenge has one person per team running on a treadmill, the speed on which is increased every five minutes. The last person standing wins the challenge for their team. Jen and Dolvett are most concerned about Damien and Blake's well being this week. The weigh ... Written by Huggo

At the last sets of weigh-ins, Gina is eliminated at Comeback Canyon sending her home, while Blake joins Jackie at Comeback Canyon. Bob believes that they are neck and neck in terms of staying or leaving this week based on both losing the same amount of weight last week, but Jackie admits she is fighting against a younger metabolism. At the ranch, three guests come for the week: NFL'ers Michael Irvin, Donald Driver, and Willie McGinest, who will be mentoring the red, white and blue team respectively. Scott feels somewhat embarrassed to be on the contestant side of the coin with his fellow NFL'ers, but he ultimately may get the most this week from their presence. The reward challenge is a football themed one, with the trainers involved. The winning team receives video chats with loved ones. Despite Scott's embarrassment, he and Damien realize that they have an advantage with this challenge based on their professional football history. And at the last chance workout, everyone can feel ... Written by Huggo

At the last sets of weigh-ins, Blake is eliminated at Comeback Canyon sending her home, while Damien joins Jackie at Comeback Canyon. Bob likes the metaphor of a two time Super Bowl champion going against the first person to have survived two weeks at Comeback Canyon. Only the weigh-in will determine who will emerge as a three time winner. The contestants at the ranch have hit the half way mark of the competition. With nine left, Alison announces that there will be a line up change with three competitors per team, those new teams which will be chosen solely by chance. While some embrace the change as a positive thing possibly to learn from another trainer, one person in particular dreads the possibility of losing the trainer that has led to a high weight loss thus far. The trainers will have to address these concerns by any of their new team members. The new teams go into a reward challenge: they will prepare a meal for Rocco DiSpirito who will judge which team prepared the best meal ... Written by Huggo

At the last sets of weigh-ins, Jackie is eliminated at Comeback Canyon sending her home, while Rondalee joins Damien at Comeback Canyon. Regardless of the competitive aspect of the weigh-in at Comeback Canyon, Bob feels he has to help Rondalee achieve a milestone this week in her weight loss journey. At the ranch, the contestants learn that if they lose at least a combined 50 pounds at this week's weigh-in, no one will be sent home this week. Associated, they also learn that they can reduce that 50 pounds down to a potential 40 pounds if they as a collective win the week's challenge which will require them all to work as a team. That challenge, with a one hour time limit, is to knock placards representing 50 to 40 pounds - the 40 pound placard which is the highest at fourteen feet above ground - by moving piles of sand upon which team members can stand to reach the placards. On an individual basis, the trainers focus on Rob and Damien in dealing with emotional issues, Damien's which ... Written by Huggo

Host Alison Sweeney surprises the contestants with the news that this week they'll be competing as singles, rather than as teams. In their first challenge as singles, the players must cross an obstacle course, including a mud pit, and complete a memory puzzle at the end for the greatest prize of all at the ranch - immunity. Then trainers surprise the final seven contestants with heartwarming videos of support from players, coaches and family members back home, fueling their fire to keep working hard at the ranch. Later, after a fiercely competitive week at Comeback Canyon, trainer Bob Harper sends one player home for good, while the ranch weigh-in results in a tearful elimination as the contestants vote to send another player packing.

At the last sets of weigh-ins, Damien is eliminated at Comeback Canyon sending him home, while JJ joins Scott at Comeback Canyon for another week of two football players. Beyond the workouts, Bob provides the two with a symbolic gesture of their rebirth into athletes. With the remaining six contestants, they spend their first week of two away from the ranch on the island of Kauai. The trainers decide to use items found in nature for their workout on the beach. The reward challenge entails kayaking 1,000 feet in open water to a buoy, picking up a bag of puzzle pieces attached to the buoy, kayaking the 1,000 feet back to the beach, and putting the puzzle together. The first to complete the puzzle wins the challenge, the reward which will be displayed on the completed puzzle. The kayaking brings out the fear of water in Woody. As such, Jen, who has her own fear of open water, decides to deal with her fear along with Woody and the other afraid of water - Sonya - for a session of ... Written by Huggo

At the last sets of weigh-ins, JJ is eliminated at Comeback Canyon sending him home, while Jordan joins Scott at Comeback Canyon. The remaining five contestants spend their second of two weeks on the island of Kauai, primarily in the jungle as opposed to the first week which was largely on the beach. Beyond the workouts, many of the activities are symbolic of rebirth and renewal and/or letting go of fear. Dolvett wants Rob to let go of that fear, which Dolvett feels has held Rob back from accomplishing so much more in his life, with his symbolic activity being to repel down a waterfall. As opposed to Rob who has to hold on in his activity, Jessie asks Lori to let go of a rope, which will drop her down a giant swing, symbolizing her heading to new heights. And at Comeback Canyon, Bob asks both Jordan and Scott to balance on a beam twenty-five feet above ground, symbolizing the balance they will have to find in their life, before jumping off to new adventures. Many find it difficult to ... Written by Huggo

At the last sets of weigh-ins, Jordan is eliminated at Comeback Canyon sending him home, while Woody joins Scott at Comeback Canyon. This week proves to be the most divisive yet at the Canyon, as Scott wants retribution for Woody having voted him off the ranch. The stakes are high as the biggest loser at the Canyon this week will be Bob's contestant heading back to the ranch. The remaining four contestants at the ranch have made it to Makeover Week, where they will get fashion styled by Tim Gunn, and their hair done by Ken Paves. Their rewards include an entire new wardrobe, being in a photo shoot which will be featured in Us Weekly, sharing their new selves with family and friends, and being serenaded by Gavin DeGraw. The makeovers prove to be as emotionally transforming as the weight loss journey. Without the four ranch contestants knowing, Woody and Scott are not excluded from the makeovers and the other rewards. But the makeovers take away from workout time, the four ranch ... Written by Huggo

As there was no one eliminated from the ranch after the last weigh-in, there are four ranch contestants remaining: Lori, Rob, Sonya and Toma. Those four will learn about the existence of Comeback Canyon, the return of Bob who has been training the Canyon contestants all season, and Bob bringing one contestant back with him who the four thought was eliminated, namely Woody. This twist in the game throws specifically Rob for a loop, he who cannot control his negative emotions about the issue. Dolvett has to help him focus on what is important. Bob's return as a trainer adds a noticeable energy to the workouts, all the contestants who aim to impress, one who does so more than the others to Bob. The other trainers provide words of encouragement to the contestants, most specifically to their original team members. This week's reward challenge is a 2000m rowing race followed by a free throw competition using medicine balls instead of basketballs. The winner of the challenge is the recipient... Written by Huggo

With Lori eliminated at the last weigh-in, there are four contestants left at the ranch vying for the final three spots in the finale. Jenna Wolfe, seven months pregnant, comes in as this week's guest trainer, she who wants to show the contestants how to work out at home with no equipment. Meanwhile, Bob trains the three trainers to show the contestants that their journey is a never-ending one, where trainers too have to put in effort in their workouts time and time again. The four contestants go back to where it all started seventeen weeks ago, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the site of the week's reward challenge, which is a race along a set route through the coliseum with sixteen checkpoints, each point where the contestants will literally shed weight equivalent to the amount they lost at each of the sixteen weigh-ins thus far. The first person to cross the finish line wins a one pound advantage at this week's weigh-in, and a $5,000 cash prize. Each of the contestants is ... Written by Huggo

Alison introduces the theme for the season - athletes trying to regain their former glory - before she introduces the four trainers, Jen, Jessie, Dolvett, and Bob, the latter who provides his thoughts about the concept of and atmosphere at Comeback Canyon. While Jen and Jessie talk of being the new trainers this season, Dolvett talks about what made this season special compared to previous seasons. The at-home contestants are introduced and Alison describes a little of their journey on the show and after leaving the ranch before they each weigh-in for the final time to determine the winner of the $100,000 at-home prize. The trainers interview audience members who have gone through their own at-home weight loss journey, Jared Fogle, Subway spokesperson, who has a special message for them. Alison then introduces the three finalists - Rob, Sonya and Toma. The four trainers present a special video gift for the finalists. The three finalists then weigh-in for the final time to see who is ... Written by Huggo