CrazyInAlabama

90 minutes into the episode and no hint of surgery. I'm guessing we won't see the Da Vinci rooting around in his innards this time.

The few times I made it at home, I only put half of the food coloring they called for in the batter. It's still 95% the same color, but it doesn't have that food coloring taste. I only like real cream cheese frosting too. Too many commercial cakes use shortning, whipped, and that's disgusting.

MOnth 1 625 Month 3 and 4 cancelled Month 5 (I think) - 597 only down 28 not the 75 lb. goal (They flew this time) Does James have every official team hat for every pro team? Cheyenne really gets it.

It's so unfair of James to keep cancelling appointments, and disrupt the lives of the people who put their life on hold, and drive 60 hours round trip to Houston to help him.

I suspect James is grieving what he wanted their relationship to be, not the actual loss. But, he needed to get back to Dr. Now's office. That's an awful lot of chicken for 400 calories, especially since she put butter in the pan. Month 1-625 Month 3-cancelled appointment Month 4-cancelled appointment. Half way through the episode, and no other appointments.

Since he's in a fifth-floor walk-up, that's true friendship to bring him food.

I think Dr. Now says 1200, knowing that most will have 2000 to 2500 a day. By the way, the Supersized episode tomorrow night is Ryan. I'm skipping that one.

I like the scale the Bariatric doctor in Kentucky uses, it weighs up to a substantial amount, and it's flat on the floor, so no steps up. James B. NYC to Houston in 3 days. Month 1-625 Dr. Now's goal, lose 80 in 2 months, 104 BMI (I really thought he weighed at least 675)

Three days from NYC to Houston is record time. That's 25 hours driving time.

I suspect the stagger upstairs will take longer than the trip to Houston.

I'm hoping James will be the flip side of Ryan the Useless. I wonder if they driving him to Houston? That's at least 25 hours, so a week travel time, including 50 or so drive thru stops? Flying direct is over 3 hours, plus airport time. At least they're using a minivan. It takes a really good friend to drive him to Houston.

4 p.m. reruns- First (2013)- Grieving Son Sues Father -Plaintiff/son Darrell “DJ” Carlson Jr suing defendant/father Darrell Carlson Sr. over missing furniture from the family home after the mother’s death. Defendant’s witness is his new girlfriend. This happened in Minnesota. Son survives on SS Disability PTSD for losing several family members in short order. A cousin, Christina Hedquist, is trying to get him back to school, and back on track. Son is trying to get furniture from the family home. Father has the property, and it’s stored. Everything from late mother, nephew, etc. is all stored. Plaintiff will get all of the furniture, lamps, etc. that belonged to the mother will go back to the son. Son was living with mother, and she was divorced from defendant for a couple of years. Defendant witness is defendant’s new girlfriend. Son gets furniture back from storage, in Red Wing, MN. So, my understanding is after the ex-wife died, defendant pillaged everything. Anything, like TVs that are good, defendant swears he doesn’t know where it is. JJ says the marshals will check the storage, and defendant’s home for the property son owns. Items are actually stored in defendant’s girlfriend’s sister’s garage. However, in sworn statement defendant and girlfriend said property was stored in a commercial storage unit. Plaintiff receives $1500, and will go to the other woman’s house and marshal will help him go through stuff, and get his property back. A Thief in the Night -Plaintiff Pamela Smith suing defendant/former friend Brittany Baldwin over her car getting impounded, after defendant was pulled over for speeding in the car. Plaintiff took defendant into her home after she was homeless. Plaintiff wants $5,000 for impound fees, and transportation costs after the car was impounded, because defendant was driving when car was impounded. Plaintiff claims defendant took the car without permission. Defendant had no license, was speeding, and claims she never told plaintiff she didn’t have a license. Car was impounded because of no insurance coverage, and defendant’s lack of license. Car was not safe to drive because of bad brakes. Plaintiff didn’t go to get her car out of impound, because she had no insurance, so she couldn’t get car out of impound (see Parking Wars for f-stops, lack of insurance, and probably lapsed registration, for why plaintiff wouldn’t ever be getting her car back). Plaintiff case dismissed. So much for plaintiff’s $5,000 bonanza from JJ, actually Officer Byrd’s wallet. In hall-terview defendant says she was drinking, so doesn’t really remember a lot from that day. I’m wondering if lack of insurance, and license wasn’t the major issue with the officers, but the fact that defendant was drunk. Second (2013)- Mom and Son’s Fiance Fight! -Plaintiff/mother Patricia Morgan suing defendant/son’s fiance Sharlie Carr claiming she destroyed plaintiff’s belongings when she was moving out, and failed to pay rent. Defendant and son stayed as tenants in mother’s house. Defendant says there was no agreement to pay rent, and claims plaintiff’s dogs probably did the property damage. Actually, defendant seems fairly level headed. Defendant son/fiance doesn’t seem to have a brain. Plaintiff says defendants packed her stuff up when she was out of town, because plaintiff was going to move in a few months. Plaintiff claims she never said defendant could pack her stuff in garbage bags, when defendant and son were moving out. Defendants claim plaintiff’s dogs ripped the garbage bags of plaintiff’s property up. Plaintiff claims dismissed. User Boyfriend -Plaintiff/mother Jo Ann Adame (SSMOO-Sainted Single Mother of One) is suing defendant/ex-boyfriend Bruce Coolidge for a Disneyland park pass, and utility bills. Plaintiff claims when they broke up, plaintiff claimed he would pay her back for everything when he got back on his feet. The duo lived together for 10 years, and have a two-year-old together. Defendant says everything plaintiff wants was from when they lived together, and were operating as a family. Also, defendant was a stay-at-home caregiver to their child. How much does Disney charge for a two-year-old? Plaintiff claims dismissed. Door Destruction -Plaintiff/sister Kendra Peters suing defendant/brother Leon Peters for breaking down her back door. Plaintiff was working out of town, so brother was talking to her about moving into her house with plaintiff and her children. Defendant/brother says he needed to get into the house, so he kicked the back door in. Defendant, his wife, and kid needed to get into the house, didn’t have a key, so the door suffered for his lack of planning. $424 to plaintiff for the door. Not the bonanza of $1500 the plaintiff wanted. 5 p.m. reruns- First (2016)- Borrowed and Crashed-Plaintiff Gadi Pointer suing ex-friend/defendant Regan Peterson for car damages, that defendant borrowed with his permission. Defendant says plaintiff rents his car to people, and paid plaintiff $75 to rent his car for the night. Defendant also claims the plaintiff uses his car as an unofficial taxi, giving rides cheaper than cabs. Plaintiff had car insurance through a friend's policy, not his own policy. Car was still being financed, and that requires full coverage, not just liability that plaintiff piggybacked from his friend. Then, plaintiff claims car was paid off, titled in his name, and liability insurance. Insurance paperwork has liability only, not collision, and he's listed as an additional driver on the friend's policy. I don't think the car was drivable after the picture submitted by the plaintiff, but plaintiff claims it was drivable when she left the car at plaintiff’s house. So it’s not the same "minor fender bender" the defendant had. There is a lot left out. Plaintiff doesn't have proper insurance, is operating a business without proper license, and it is definitely a fraud on the insurance company. $4000 to plaintiff. Senior Stairway Fail-Plaintiff/landlord Steve Milano suing former tenant/defendant Crystal Williams for damages to her rental unit, and unpaid rent. Defendant lived in apartment since 2012 (for three years), with month-to-month. Counter claim is for security deposit ($736). Plaintiff claims defendant stopped paying rent, and filed for unlawful detainer (eviction), and she didn't pay for the two last months. Defendant claims she fell down the stairs twice at the apartment, and sued for $50,000 for the first fall, and won that, and another suit will be filed for the second fall. (Sorry but if you fell, and had $50K in injuries, and fell again, you won't be standing up in court). Defendant claims that her lawyers had an agreement that she didn't have to pay the last two months’ rent as long as she moved out. Plaintiff/landlord submits the photos, and bills for damages. (Another reason on my extensive list of why I'll never be a landlord). What did that woman do to that carpet? Defendant wanted a first-floor unit, but lived on the second floor. Now I can see why she "fell", and sued. Defendant was offered a first-floor unit, but they cost more money, and defendant refused to pay more money. There was a list of 16 items defendant wanted fixed in the apartment, and many were fixed, but defendant wanted the first-floor unit which was $700 more a month. Plaintiff started the unlawful detainer/eviction action because defendant didn’t pay two month’s rent. I agree with plaintiff in hall-terview, defendant is a professional tenant. Plaintiff gets $1500. He also keeps the $736 security deposit. (Sadly, this case inspires JJ to tell the “Ate the Steak” story again). Second (2016)- Pitiful Pitch-Plaintiff /homeowner Nancy Carroll suing contractor/defendant Ian Hoffman over a home addition. Defendant is a licensed plumber, but not a licensed contractor in Virginia, where this happened. Defendant was hired to add an enclosed porch onto her home. There is a signed contract covering the work, and the scope of work, and $6,000 total was paid to the defendant. I don't think the deck was built according to code, and it doesn't look like the structure is up to date, but that may be the before picture. $5,000 to plaintiff. Workman's Comp Chaos-Plaintiff Shawn Cornett suing former friend/defendant Timothy Duncan for money owed for helping defendant's mother close a workman's comp case. Plaintiff claims that defendant's mother needed help to resolve her worker's comp case, and she would pay him $2,000. Plaintiff hasn't worked since 2004, and is recently on disability, and was unemployed for over 10 years. Somehow plaintiff interfered in the case, and the attorney actually communicated with him. Was plaintiff qualified to interfere in the worker’s comp (it was called Workman’s Comp before, now it’s Worker’s Comp) case? I doubt it. I wonder if plaintiff’s working part time conflicts with his disability or unemployment payments? I agree with JJ, why was plaintiff sticking his nose in this Worker’s Comp case? Plaintiff had zero right to talk to her attorney, go to the doctor with her, and he had no standing in this case. Plaintiff has no case. In hall-terview, defendant says his mother had dementia, and wasn’t competent to do anything with this case. Shady Car Deal-Plaintiff/car buyer Carolyn Omatayo aw car by side of the road, near a car lot, and bought it from defendant James Daniels . Car wasn’t in a car lot, but near a car lot. Plaintiff is suing defendant who sold her the car, because she claims the title was not in his name, and car was stolen. DMV called police, and car was impounded. Plaintiff paid $8,000 for a car that KBB says is worth $7300. Case is dismissed without prejudice, to go back and try it locally.

I'm wondering at the upkeep on 21 acres, that looked like woods surrounding the huge yard for the house and driveway? I wonder if they realized the things that living on that huge acreage is going to require? However, I really liked the couple, and those adorable kids, and hope they love the house they picked.

This has had so many seasons, so the ones who really want to win should have practiced doing a several tier show piece, using dowels, fondant, and some techniques that they could use for a theme cake for the final episode. The bakers should come to the show after being able to do a pie, some other desserts, a tiered cake, and have them turn out consistently. Hasn't every season ended with a final tiered show piece cake? Practice that a few times at home.

Was it "Too Large"? That makes sense, since their original doctor was Dr. Procter, who is the doctor on that too. I felt so sorry for Dr. Smith on the last episode, Tammy did nothing he told her to, and she thought staying the same weight was good enough. I hate that they built up to Chris' weigh-in, and are using that as a cliff hanger. I don't see Chris committed to weight loss, and keeping it off even if he qualifies for surgery this week. He kept saying that he worked so hard on the diet, but through the episode also said how sick he is of dieting to get surgery. He doesn't seem to understand that he's looking at a very strict eating regimen if he ever does get the surgery. He's just as delusional as Tammy in his own way.

4 p.m. reruns- First (2013)- Rent Free and Smoking Pot? -Plaintiff/ex-tenant/daughter Kristina Gach suing defendant/mother Kathleen Gach for return of rent. Plaintiff claims she cleaned defendant’s house for $80 a day, and rent was $400 but the rent would be returned after plaintiff and boyfriend moved out. Plaintiff, boyfriend, and their baby. Defendant is counter claiming for missing property, rent, and other stuff. After plaintiff, boyfriend (Ted Altizer), stayed at defendant’s house for five or six months to qualify for low-income housing. They moved into the downstairs 1 bed, 1 bath apartment in defendant’s house. Plaintiff claims clients pay her from $80 to $145 a day for house cleaning. Defendant says plaintiffs were deadbeats, never paid rent, smoked pot in her house, and she finally kicked them out. JJ tells the plaintiff daughter that her mother will always be in her life, after deadbeat boyfriend in long gone. If mother is smart, she’ll change the locks, and never let plaintiff or her deadbeat boyfriend in her house again. Plaintiff gets $800. Defendant case dismissed. Ex-Fiance Fiasco -Plaintiff Bryan McClarnan suing defendant/ex-fiance Janine Crosswhite for missed car payments and damages on a car plaintiff took loan out on for defendant. Defendant never made any payments, apparently no maintenance either, and finally gave car back to plaintiff. She’s now driving a 1996 Honda Prelude, purchased for $800. When car became undrivable, defendant dumped car on plaintiff. Defendant deferred eight payments (unpaid), and transmission repair was over $300. The original car was on a six year payment plan. $ 2998 to plaintiff. Second (2013)- Pit Bull Attack! -Plaintiff Sandy Glick (mother) and David Glick (son, 13) suing defendant/Pit Bull owner Gloria and Mario Holguin for an attack by defendant’s dog. Plaintiffs want medical bills, and pain and suffering. The litigants are neighbors, with a fenced vacant lot in between. Plaintiff son, and friends play ball on the vacant lot. David Glick says he was hitting balls from his yard to the vacant lot. Defendant wife claims dog is an American Bulldog/mutt mix (aka, it’s a Pit Bull mix). David Glick claims he was picking the balls up in the vacant lot, when defendant’s dog came under their fence, and attacked him three times. David Glick’s father rescued him from the dog. Plaintiff witness is a neighbor who was washing dishes, looking out the back window, and saw the plaintiff son picking up balls in the vacant lot. Then, witness saw defendant’s dog attacking the son in the vacant lot. Medical records are presented. Plaintiff mother’s insurance company said that if plaintiff is paid for any bills, that the company will have to be reimbursed for bills. Photos of plaintiff son’s bite marks are bad. Son had to be kept home from school for a week, and no strenuous activities for another week. Defendant man’s story is a lie. Defendant claims it’s not his dog. Defendant claims the dog belongs to his son, who lives in his home. Defendant man says the kid was trespassing on vacant lot, and besides his dog didn’t bite anyone. Defendant claims dog protects the vacant lot, but he’s not the owner. Defendant man says plaintiff son instigated the attack. Defendant claims dog is protecting the other property, and says no one can go on the vacant lot owned by someone else, play ball or walk there. I think the dog should be put down, along with defendant, his awful wife, and their stupid son. Defendant wife talks about the vicious and dangerous dog hearing. Hearing notes redacted the addresses. Dog was judged potentially dangerous, has to constantly watched outside, and other restrictions. Defendant claims someone sabotaged their fence. Dog has a bite history too. Dog’s owner, the defendant son actually tells the truth. Dog is not covered under homeowner’s insurance. Defendant son had to buy special insurance to cover the dog after the vicious/dangerous dog hearing. Defendant wife claims the kids throw the balls at their yard, and antagonize the dog. Defendants are despicable, and I hope animal control kept a close eye on how they controlled the animal. Plaintiff gets $2,500 , and insurance will receive their share. College Car Confusion -Plaintiff Angela Walker (daughter) and Roderick Walker (father) suing defendant /mechanic Douglas Stevenson over the car purchased for daughter, $1,000 deposit on total price of $1800. Plaintiff father says the second they bought the car, the defendant took car to work on it. When mechanic went to do the timing chain or timing belt, he ran into issues, and had to replace the motor. Then, plaintiffs backed out of the deal after more than a month. Defendant has the car, and it’s running. JJ tells defendant to sell car. plaintiffs get their $1,000 deposit returned 5 p.m. reruns- First (2016)- Italian Mastiff Mating Mess-Plaintiff Juanita Phillips was stud owner of Cane Corso/Italian Mastiff (an aggressive guard breed, not for amateurs) who wants money from defendant Michael Stevens after he didn't pay a stud fee. Defendant says all of the puppies died within three days of birth. Defendant claims there was no stud fee, just two puppies to plaintiff. Plaintiff claims this was the only breeding, but plaintiff has a breeding pair, and out of her 12 puppies, 9 died by four months, of parvo. The other three sold for $1,000 each, and plaintiff claims they were healthy. Defendant also bought two puppies from plaintiff, for $400 each, and puppies got sick, and plaintiff picked them up. Puppies had parvo, according to defendant, but defendant says one was put down, and the other was given back to defendant. (I hate both of these litigants, they sell to anyone who pays them the money. And that garbage about first litter, was just that, garbage. No screening of homes). Defendant had a previous stud he got rid of. Plaintiff's son claims there was a $900 stud fee agreement. Text messages say $800. Plaintiff gets $800. It sounds like the plaintiff's home is infected with parvo, and has never been cleaned properly. Plaintiff’s son is her witness and explains the real story, but it’s still confusing. Plaintiff had the male and female Cane Corso, they had 12 puppies, and defendant bought two of them for $400 each. The agreement was $400 each for two puppies. I don’t know why it’s a stud fee, because it’s really a puppy selling fee. $800 to plaintiff. Family Friendly Drinking-Plaintiff Mary Anderson suing defendant/daughter's former friend Samantha Salazar for car repairs, rental fees, and lost wages. Daughter of plaintiff and defendant were drinking shots at plaintiff's house, and then plaintiff went to bed. Then there is a phone call from plaintiff's daughter saying plaintiff's car was in a bad accident, says defendant was driving, and the accident happened. Defendant was driving, with a suspended license, and was driving because she was more sober than plaintiff's daughter. Car only had liability insurance, and car is drivable. Defendant claims plaintiff daughter grabbed her hand, and caused the accident. Defendant was arrested, for driving on a suspended license, (for failure to appear defendant's lying about why she was suspended), and DUI. Defendant actually was suspended for moving violations. As usual, defendant does home health care. $2100 to plaintiff, and plaintiff daughter will pay the other $1,000+. I wouldn’t have paid the plaintiffs a penny. Second (2016)- Teen Basketball Player vs. Tough Coach-Plaintiff grandmother suing basketball travel league owner for refund of league dues. Former basketball coach says he's hard on players, but he expects them to put out effort, and show up for all practices. (I remember this, and eventually the granddaughter did play for a college team). Granddaughter received a discounted rate for 7th and 8th grade, and then in ninth grade grandmother was charged nothing. League owner says he knew the grandmother couldn't afford full price, and granddaughter had a lot of potential. This last year grandmother was charged $1400 ($500 off the full price, and the only player on the team with a discount). Coach is a yeller, and so granddaughter quit, and after she was pulled from a game. Granddaughter didn't want to go to last minute practice, and then she quit soon after. The reason granddaughter wants to be on the travel league is to show her skills to college scouts. Granddaughter had played for the same coach before, without issues. Plaintiff gets $1,000. (I wouldn’t have given the plaintiff a penny. The grandmother had reduced fees for the entire playing career of granddaughter.)

I'm suspicious about Tammy always getting a new boyfriend. They only stay long enough to shoot a few episodes, and then they're gone. I'm also not believing that someone across the country is harassing her, at least anywhere but online. I'm suspecting a lot of storylines, on this show are just that, stories for the show, and totally fake.

I was watching an OWN rerun, of Dateline: Secrets Uncovered, about a nearly fatal beating of a 19 year old in Albuquerque. She was beaten almost to death, and her mother walked into the house, found her, and ran for help with the attacker chasing her with a butcher knife. Some passing good samaritan stopped, helped the mother, and chased the attacker away. It was 10 years later the police actually identified the attacker, and had DNA proof. So, he took a plea deal, and had a sentence of 18 years. No one brought up on the show the possibility that this wasn't his only attack, and if there could be other cases unsolved too. I find it unbelieveable that someone did one brutal attack, was chasing the mother with a knife, and then wasn't discovered and arrested until 10 years later, and it was the only time he did anything criminal.

I think they should have given them more time. Five hours seems like a lot of time to bake and decorate, but it really isn't enough. I can't believe Jody didn't use dowels to support the cake. Adam was the right choice, but I still think that more time would have been better. I really think they should let all four compete too.

I know people who work out, and want to workout when they're traveling, but don't want to use the fitness center. It may not have what they want to use, or it's not the equipment they like, or the hours don't work for them. So, in the bigger motel rooms, something like the Max Pro would work for them. The banana stuffer seems useless to me. I can see someone using it a few times, but never again. The tenticle mount could be useful I think.

Amy did say when she was talking about skin removal, that she wanted her huge stomach area reduced. I think she's thinking she'll find a surgeon that wants the publicity, and will agree to do the skin removal, and plastic surgery for free. Amy seems to think the surgeon would remove her entire huge stomach area, and that's not possible. I'm hoping no surgeon will agree to doing the massive amount of work Amy says she wants done. I guess it never dawned on her that the scars will be all over too, and healing will be painful, and take a long time. Also, she seems to think that skin removal, and plastic surgery will turn her into a beauty queen. That's never going to happen. I don't like that they showed Chris weighing in, and not the results.

For once I agree with Tammy, when the therapist asked if she eats in the evening, or morning, and Tammy said she obviously eats all day long.

I wish the show would outline every requirement of the final showpiece for each episode at the beginning, instead of doing some twist in the middle of baking.

So, Amy wants a boob lift, and probably enhancement, and skin removal, but says she can't wait to have more kids? There's no logic in that line of thought. There is no way anything surgical will happen at her weight, so I'm guessing they've run out of story lines.

I'm getting a very bad feeling about Ximena, and her kids, coming to the U.S. I think she's just using Mike for every penny she can get. I'm hoping I'm wrong.