Biggest Loser Asia: Episode Nine

Biggest Loser Asia Episode 9 Recap

The episode started with all contestants talking in the living room. They discussed Nadia's departure and the respect she's earned from all of them. Kristy was disappointed to see Nadia was not there. She became quite upset when she learned about the blue team's water loading strategy. Kristy vowed to help the remanding team members continue to lose weight.

Dave was thrilled to learn of Tony's weight loss. They told him about their strategy of manipulating their water weight.

Christine asked for a rest day due to a sore foot, and Kristy granted her request.

Dave and and Kristy both trained their teams. Kristy only had Carlo and Kevin with her, so she was able to give them special attention. Dave reminded the team not to get satisfied with their previous accomplishments. Dave played a little prank on Hafiz, telling him Christine was eliminated. It really got to him and distracted him from his training.

Christine got her knee scanned and discovered a "cartilage rip." They gave her a shot to help lubricated the joint.

Kristy confronted Dave about the blue team's water loading. Dave defended the strategy and insisted no rules had been broken.

Kristy presented herself to her team draped in a Philippine flag. She also showed them a donation check from Fitness First worth 60,000 dollars for the typhoon victims. She encouraged the red team to think about their countrymen as they trained.

The Challenge: This episode's challenge involved several task: 1. Swimming around a buoy and back. 2. Running and retrieving a shovel. 3. Taking the shovel and uncovering a buried chest on the beach. 4. Finding the correct key from a rack to open the chest. 5. Taking a beach ball from the chest and inflating it. 6. Shooting the inflated ball through a basketball hoop.

The red team started out ahead, but Christine had a lot of trouble finding the chest. The blue team won the challenge. Their reward was a dinner by the beach, but some of them seemed to be eating high calorie food. The blue team could also decide which three team members would sit out of the weigh-in.

The next segment showed Aaron and Hafiz going to mosque. It was quite emotional for Aaron.

Dave talked to his team about the water loading strategy. He warned them about gorging themselves with water because of safety concerns. The blue teams last chance workout was a football game.

The red team had an intense gym session for their last chance workout. Team members expressed their concerns about the upcoming weigh-in--they feared the blue team's strategies would give them an advantage.

Aaron, Hafiz, and Tony's weight was not counted. Aaron and Hafiz each lost 2 kilos, Tony lost none. Most contestants lost between 2-4 kilos. David was the last contestant to step on the scale. He lost no weight (despite doing very well in previous weigh-in's), which caused the red team to win by 1 kilo.

Hafiz asked to see Christine and talk to her one-on-one.  He gave her a flower and card just in case he was the one chosen for elimination.  The two shed tears and promised to continue their weight loss journey regardless of what happened.  They left the room hand-in-hand.

The blue team met in the elimination voting room, faced with a hard decision.  Hafiz surprised his teammate by writing "I love Christine" on his voting card.  This in effect nullified his vote.  He was eliminated--his team members all expressed concern over his loss of focus.