Oh, Migdalia. Our local homemaker from Sanford was not "The Biggest Loser." She was the biggest loser on "The Biggest Loser," in fact. Her 19.62 percentage overall loss was the smallest of the 22 contestants at the finale by far. The next lowest was James, one of the Brown Team twins who was among the first to go home, who lost 26.39 percent of his body weight.

Migdalia's mother, Miggy, however, was looking all glam with her sporty new haircut and 91-pound weight loss, which put her about in the middle of the pack with a 37.92 percentage loss.

What sweet Daris was sporting was a new girlfriend!

The underdogs win! Woo hoo!! There’s nothing like having the extreme underdogs pull out a victory against the selfish smug to put a smile on your TV-watching face!

Who could have predicted that when Michael (The Biggest Contestant Ever) won the right to divide the teams into Blue and Black and stacked his Blue Team in a way that made Jillian use the F-word (bleep) and call it the “most unfair, impossible scenario ever” that the scheme would backfire? And that the result would be the end of the road for Miggy, whom Michael called “my best friend” when he chose her for his team? Miggy, remember, is the mother of Migdalia, our Sanford homemaker.

Screeching with joy? Miggy was screeching with joy? And that was before she jumped up and down, clapping gleefully, and then ran across the stage to lift Jillian off the ground in a bear hug.

Nothing like having the second-highest percentage weight loss to fuel an attitude transformation. Is Miggy, the mother of Migdalia, our Sanford homemaker who was voted off two shows ago, trying to shed her villainous persona?

Wait. Who was THIS Miggy? This Miggy who cried repeatedly, who hugged Jillian, who confessed her despair over losing daughter Migdalia in the last vote?

Didn’t Miggy chastise Migdalia repeatedly last week for crying?

Of course, Miggy had quite a lot to cry about, given that she left the ranch in an ambulance at the beginning of this week's (all-new) show and came back several days later missing an appendix and a cyst and carrying  8 pounds of salt water from the operation. Miggy told Bob that her 1-pound weight loss last week -- a number that put her and Migdalia, a Sanford homemaker, below the yellow line and sent Migdalia
home -- was because her body was fighting a real problem.

Now we’ll never know just how much emotional baggage Migdalia was capable of shedding along with the weight from her initial 265 pounds. But with mother Miggy snapping at her not to cry over being on the receiving end of a 2-pound disadvantage, not to cry over the Green Team’s losing just 5 pounds when 11 were needed, not to cry when they fell below the yellow line, not to cry when the others were in the process of voting off one of them, we sure got a clue about the source of the problems for Migdalia, our homemaker from Sanford.

When it came time for the Green Team to plead its case about whether mother or daughter should go, Migdalia said, “I want to go home. There’s nothing else to say.” The Red Team, the Gray Team and the Brown Team voted to send Miggy home anyway, but in the end Migdalia got her wish.

Yi. Yi. Yi. The biggest thing on “The Biggest Loser” this week wasn’t the contestants but the chip on Migdalia’s shoulder, at least according to Jillian, who said it was the size of Texas. Migdalia, a Sanford homemaker, responded to Jillian’s relentless prodding to acknowledge her clearly damaged emotions by saying she wanted to quit the show and go home.

Perhaps this is why our home team Green Team of Migdalia and mother Miggy didn’t get a lot of camera love last week -- since Migdalia took up quite a bit of time this week as the star of Big Drama No. 1.

Our home-team Green Team could be called the Ghost Team this week.

The mother-daughter duo got barely any air time, but Migdalia, a 28-year-old from Sanford, and her mother, Miggy, had the last laugh, winning the weigh-in with a total 2.52 percentage loss.

The White Team, however, had plenty of face time -- in more ways than one.

“Biggest Loser” likes to try to keep the screaming, puking and sweating fresh by introducing new twists every season.

The opener to Season 9 was a double-header drama: The contestants had their first weigh-ins this time in their home cities, in front of their friends and family members, and then they had to jump immediately upon their arrival at the ranch onto stationary bicycles to try to win a 26.2-mile challenge.

The two slowest of the 11 teams would be headed home.

While we await an interview with Sanford's Migdalia, the latest NC contestant on "The Biggest Loser," we have an update on Raleigh's Ed Brantley and Heba Salama.

Ed and Heba were on The Biggest Loser 6, in 2008, during which Heba won the $100,000 at home prize, and the scorn of many viewers. 

Nowadays, the pair is making the most of their reality show experience.