Week two on “The Biggest Loser” is always one of the hardest. In addition to the reality of daily training, homesickness and greater challenges to make big losses on the scale, this season week two also served as a not-too-gentle reminder to the contestants that there is more at stake than their waist sizes or $250,000 in prize money.

What happens when you send a 55-year-old woman with diabetes and a host of other weight-related issues to the Biggest Loser ranch? She gets inspired to refocus her life. Following an in-depth health screening with the show’s medical advisor, Dr. Huizenga, Patti Anderson says she realized “I have two feet …

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By April MacIntyre Jan 7, 2010, 1:57 GMT NBC’s The Biggest Loser said goodbye to James Crutchfield (Human resources director), 30, leaving behind his twin …

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It can’t be easy making it all the way to the Biggest Loser ranch and then seven days later becoming the game’s first casualty, but James Crutchfield has embraced it. As the first eliminated contestant of the new Biggest Loser season nine, James weighed in as the second-heaviest player at …

Father and daughter team Andrea and Darrell Hough are still in the running on NBC’s weight-loss competition “The Biggest Loser: Couples. …

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