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On the
latest episode of The Biggest Loser,
Sarah Nitta was sent packing. Just a couple of weeks earlier her mother, Denise
“Deni” Hill, had sacrificed herself in order to save the younger players. In
return the Black Team vowed to take care of Sarah. In a recent conference call
interview Nitta talked about the Black Team’s decision, her mother’s feelings
of betrayal and what she learned on the ranch.
The week
before last, Sarah was given the choice to either remain on the Red Team or
return to the Black Team. When she made the decision to go back to Black,
Arthur Wornum was eliminated.
Nitta
addressed the question of whether or not she felt her group gave her the boot
in retaliation to honor Arthur. “My team absolutely supported me in coming back
to the Black Team. And they were not upset with me in any way for that
decision, and obviously the result of Arthur going home, because those were
certainly not my intentions. Arthur and I have a great relationship.”
Regardless
Nitta said she did not regret her choice to return to the Black Team in the
previous episode. She noted that she basically had no alternative, “Actually if
you catch it just for a little second in that episode where I did choose to go
back, the Red Team had told me if I went back to them that they would have to
send me home that night. And not because they didn’t care about me but because
I would have put them in that situation where they had to choose.”
The Black Team didn’t make their choice any less staggering. Sarah recounted, “I definitely was very, very shocked, very surprised at their decision to send me home. I thought that we would all vote to go a different way and it was certainly surprising. And it does show that the original team, the original clique… stuck together.”
When Nitta
conveyed the news that she’d been voted off the ranch to her mother, Deni was
not pleased. Sarah recalled, “When I called my mom as soon as I was eliminated
she actually was devastated. I mean she was a wreck. And she still has a hard
time with it because when she did what she did for the Black Team, for
everyone, when she sacrificed herself, they promised her that they would take
care of me. They promised her that they would keep me there. And she felt very,
very betrayed by the Black Team.”
Nitta continued,
“The next elimination that the Black Team had, they sent me home. And so she
felt like it was a big slap in the face that what she did was… in vain and they
just kind of mocked that and sent me home, is how she felt. So she had a really
hard time with that and still does. She’s still struggling, trying to let that
go.”
But Nitta
understands why she was eliminated. She reflected on the other players’
strategy, “Looking at the situation and now watching the show, I think that the
episode before where I was very wishy-washy and I still care about the Red Team
and the Black Team, I’m not a solid guaranteed vote for everyone on the Black
Team because I do still care about the people on the Red Team.”
The fact
that she wasn’t committed to one group over the other may have been her
downfall. “I think when they saw that that my loyalties were not to either side
that they had to keep someone like Jen who would never write their name down
and was a guaranteed vote for them. So I think their decision to send me home
was from a game play aspect.”
Despite her
elimination, Nitta revealed that personally her final week on the Black Team
was crucial to her personal growth, “It was a turning point for me working with
Bob and going through some of those workouts and some of those breakthroughs
that I had. I feel like that was necessary. Had I gone home the week before I
think I would have been in a completely different place than I was the week
that I actually went home.”
She
disclosed about what transpired that week with Bob Harper. “The entire time I
was on the show I was… fighting to get over the fear that I had — the fear
that was controlling me and fighting to find this inner strength.”
She credited
her trainer for pushing her out of her comfort zone and through her emotional
walls. She discovered, “I really can do anything and I really do have so much
strength that I can tap into that I’m able to do whatever I put my mind to.”
As for the
Black Team, there is much debate about what an all female team is capable of on
a show like The Biggest Loser. Nitta
addressed the issue, saying, “I think that the women on the Black Team are
strong women. But they definitely have a disadvantage when it comes to
challenges that may involve strengths because they’re up against really, really
big guys that are strong men and in that sense they could be at a
disadvantage.”
Still she stated that she believes that the women possess other strengths that give them an edge over the men. “They are smart and when it comes to a smart challenge they could have an advantage.”
As for the
ability of the men to lose weight more easily than the women, Nitta continued,
“The men do have more to lose. It’s easier for them to lose. Percentage wise
the women are getting smaller but they still have weight to lose… They are down
to a lot of small girls, and I think it’s going to start creating a challenge
for them.”
In the
meantime, Sarah has stayed focus on achieving her own personal goals back at
home in Las Vegas. She admitted, “Coming home has definitely been a challenge.
And the reason is because there are so many distractions at home. On the ranch
there are no cell phones. There’s nothing to distract you. Where at home you go
back to your regular life and everything that’s involved in that. And so I
think time management has been a definite struggle for me. I get distracted
very easily and I want to be out playing with everyone.”
But she
remains focused on getting healthy so that she and her husband can start a
family, a goal that eluded a heavier Nitta. “Now as I’m doing it at home I can
honestly look at everyone else that is doing it at home or trying to do it at
home and say I know what that’s like and I know that it’s possible. Although it
is harder and a greater challenge it’s certainly possible.”
The Biggest
Loser airs on Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. EST/7 p.m. Central on NBC.
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