Season 14
12 episodes
86 min. per episode
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Struggling with self-doubt, a determined contestant battles inner demons and fierce rivals to reclaim their life and confidence.
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In front of a live studio audience, Alison introduces the season's theme, childhood obesity through the Challenge America program, with three young people being the faces of the challenge to reduce childhood obesity by having them go through a weight loss regime at home. Each will have one of the three trainers to work with, those three which includes the return of Jillian Michaels. Alison then calls out the names of the fifteen people who will be this season's contestants and who have no idea they have been chosen until their name is called. Each contestant gives a little background of him/herself. Once at the ranch the next day, five adult contestants apiece are assigned to one of the three trainers, Bob, Dolvett and Jillian, but realistically any contestant can call upon any one of the trainers for any advice or assistance. The fifteen plus the three youth are thrown into the fire with their first workout. Jillian in particular has issue with three of her team members, and tries to find out why they have what she considers a defeatist attitude. The first team challenge of the season, which includes the three youth, is to find letters in a ball pit to spell out the phrase "The Biggest Loser", with the winning team getting a five pound advantage at the weigh-in. The three youth leave the ranch for home before the last chance workout, which takes its emotional toll. At the first elimination weigh-in, the contestants learn that there will be no yellow line, but only a red line, meaning that the person with the lowest percentage of weight loss on the losing team will automatically be the first eliminated contestant. However, something that happened at the last chance workout may increase that number by one.
With Nikki voluntarily leaving the ranch and the competition, and TC falling below the red line at the first weigh-in meaning that he was automatically eliminated, the white team, led by Jillian, is already down two members after week one. Their problems continue as Jillian seems unable to get through to her team members. All thirteen remaining contestants learn that at this week's weigh-in, there once again will only be a red line, meaning that the person with the lowest percentage of weight loss on the losing team is automatically eliminated. For their first workout of the week, they will be doing it in an outdoor workout space specially designed by their trainer. Dr. Huizenga provides a medical assessment of all contestants, and the news he provides is generally not good. The three childhood obesity ambassadors return to the ranch to have their own physical assessment done with their trainer. They join their adult counterparts for the week's team challenge, which is modeled on football as their guest is San Diego Charger Antonio Gates. Although it is high on their minds during the entire week, the thirteen contestants are focused on the dreaded week two minimal weight loss curse most specifically during the last chance workout and at the weigh-in.
The white team is reeling as Nathan is eliminated at the latest weigh-in, he the third member who the team has lost in only two weeks, with theirs being the only team that is no longer at the full complement of five. Alison gives the teams a trivia test on childhood obesity, the losing team which is given what they consider the worst punishment: having to spend four and a half hours every day this week locked in a typical childhood obesity room filled with junk food, televisions and video games. As that time takes away from their workout time, the trainer of the eventual losing team is determined to make the best out of this bad situation. Two contestants on two different teams have a bad week mentally, while another decides at least temporarily to switch trainers to get a different perspective both on workouts and the emotional cause behind her weight gain. The three childhood obesity participants, at home this week, are visited by "Dr. Joanna" who gives them and their families health and nutrition advice. The week's team challenge is at a make-shift carnival, which are notorious for junk food. The contestants literally are weighed down by this junk food in this challenge. At the elimination weigh-in, the contestants learn that there is no red line this week, but will be the first time that the losing team will vote out one of their own, the only person on that team immune being the one with the highest percentage of weight loss. Alison shows them this season's new voting room, which none want to have to visit again.
The contestants learn that Cate, who was eliminated after the latest weigh-in, is not the only person leaving the ranch this week. Bob, Dolvett and Jillian will all leave for the week to visit Biingo, Lindsay and Sunny respectively, they who don't know their trainer is coming. The trainers will return to the ranch in time for the last chance workout. The three trainers want to inspire their child ambassador by choosing an activity that they will deem fun, to check to see if they are following the nutrition rules told to them by Dr. Joanna, and to uncover the emotional source of their weight gain, specifically to see what role their families play in that and how they can fix those problems. Back at the ranch, the contestants were provided training instruction for the week by their trainer before they left. The dynamics on each of the three teams is vastly different from the other two in how they cope without their trainer. Their reward challenge is a 5km run - about 4km longer than any one has run in any given point in time - each team who will split prize money, that specific amount based on their average team time for the run. At the last chance workout, one trainer has problems motivating a team member, while another trainer clashes with a contestant from another team during a multi-team workout. They will learn if these problems manifest themselves at the weigh-in, where one person from the losing team will be eliminated, the only person from that team immune being the one with the highest percentage of weight loss.
Pam's elimination at the latest weigh-in raises issues for all three teams for this upcoming week. If the white team loses the next weigh-in, not only will their one and only remaining team member, Danni, leave the ranch, but her trainer, Jillian, will as well. The red team, who has won three of four weigh-ins thus far, feels like a target is on their backs. And the blue team, the only one with a still full complement of five members, believes the percentages are not in their favor this week. Never having faced an elimination yet, that fear of losing the weigh-in brings out game playing amongst the individual members, one who feels like giving up based on poor results to date. A challenge for the week is to prove that one can eat healthily on a budget. Each person is given $10 a day and one 15 minute shopping trip for all their food for the upcoming week. The team reward challenge literally is coins in a fountain, not three but rather ten, each weighing five pound apiece, the fountain located in the middle of a pond. The winning team not only gets ten one-year gym memberships, but also a choice of a two-pound advantage at the weigh-in or a telephone call home. And the trainers check in remotely with their child obesity ambassadors to make sure that they are still on the right track.
Contestants transform mentally and physically as they compete to lose weight and win a cash prize.