Even though Mike won (and, of course, he was the odds on favorite to win because he was the biggest contestant in show history), Daris has to have undergone the biggest overall transformation. Here’s a guy who looked horrible with his ultra curly hair and big fat man boobs, but wound up shedding 168 pounds, running a 26.2 mile marathon in 4 hours, and actually has significant muscle definition in his arms and shoulders. Daris should be extremely proud of himself – he literally transformed his body and his life. Great job!

The same goes for Ashley, who went from a massive girl weighing 374 pounds to a hottie weighing 191 pounds! Amazing! Ashley lost 183 pounds and no one even gave her a chance of winning when the season began. Ashley looked great at the finale, she really did. And you can tell by her attitude and demeanor that she has the drive and spirit to lose another 50 or even 60 pounds. Once again, The Biggest Loser has taken a girl that most guys would walk by without a second look and made her into a stunning woman that will definitely make guys turn their heads. What a transformation.

Tonight’s finale should be an inspirational wake up call to everyone who thinks that they can’t do it; that they can’t lose weight. Just look at O’Neal (lost 153 pounds) and Sunshine (lost 114 pounds) – those two may not have won the big bucks, but they looked absolutely awesome! Side note – I’m a big fan of O’Neal and Sunshine, but O’Neal’s sons (Sunshine’s brothers) have got to be the biggest fans of their Dad and sister than anyone on the planet! I love when those two guys go crazy whenever they’re around their father and sister. It’s fun to watch!

But, back to people looking good during the finale – the same goes for Darrell (lost 189 pounds). That man lost a ton of weight as did Sherry from the pink team. Awesome, awesome transformations. Cheryl looked great, too, but I think that Sam might have been a little bit too cocky for his own good. Same for Koli. But in the end, the two of them looked great after their weight loss transformations – good for them!

And congratulations (again) to Koli for being the at-home winner of The Biggest Loser competition! Not only does he look great and did he rid himself of all of that excess weight, but he takes home $100,000, too. Not so bad!

If I had any issues with tonight’s season finale of The Biggest Loser, it was that NBC (and all television networks, really), draw these finale shows out way too long. Thankfully, I started watching the show at 8:30pm and rewound my DVR back the extra half an hour so I could fast forward through the commercials and the extra parts of the show that I’ve already seen (look, if you’ve watched the whole season then you’ve already been through each of the contestants’ ups and downs so you don’t need to be reminded of them before each weigh-in). Unfortunately, though, I caught up to the real time version of the show relatively quickly – by 9:20pm. So…for the last 40 minutes of the show I had to suffer through the ridiculous commercial breaks. Blech.

Actually, I guess it’s not that bad since I was able to write the bulk of this post during the dead time in the last 40 minutes of the show. Another complaint – the show ends too quickly in the last few minutes. Why not show 2 – 3 minutes of the post-weigh-in celebration and maybe even had a brief interview with the winner? Why cut straight to a promo for a new show or an upcoming show? Bad move.

Oh, and I hated seeing Melissa and Lance again. Talk about two wretched people. I’m not a fan of that Melissa woman – I just don’t like her no matter what she does or says. She’s a sneak who thinks that she’s getting something over on everyone each time she speaks. Dirty snake. She’s the reason why lawyers have bad reputations.

But, once again, a major congratulations goes out to Mike for being this season’s The Biggest Loser champion, $250,000 winner, and an amazing inspirational story! Great job!

Apparently trying to explain what went wrong, Jon said, “I was too passive. I just let her rule the roost and do whatever she wanted to do, and went along with everything, and now I finally stood up on my own two feet, and I’m proud of myself.”

And then this one from Kate:

Rather, they attributed the failure of their marriage to difficulties in communication. “Jon has a lot of anger towards me, and I would love to discuss it with him, and he won’t talk to me,” said Kate, adding, “I don’t know he knows what he wants.”

And then this final piece from Jon:

“I wasn’t always the greatest communicator,” Jon said. “I do have feelings as well….I’m hurt by all of this, but I’m excited and hurt by this at the same time. I have a new chapter in my life. I’m only 32 years old [Kate is 34]. I really don’t know what’s going to happen.”

I could write forever about these quotes, but because I take little-to-no interest in the show, I won’t bother to go to great lengths. Let me tell you what I read out of each of these quotes.

The first quote tells me that this guy Jon felt trapped in his relationship. In the grand scheme of things, the truth is that this guy became the father to a whole bunch of kids at an incredibly young age. In the year 2009, it’s an extreme rarity to find a 32 year old guy with 8 kids. Sure, I want to have a lot of kids, but not at this stage in the game!

The second quote tells me that Kate is a bit out there. Jon doesn’t have anger towards Kate, I think this guy has anger (and a deep anger) to his position in life. Which brings me to the third quote, which, I think, gets us down to the heart of the matter. Jon says, “I have a new chapter in my life. I’m only 32 years old. I really don’t know what’s going to happen.” Let me stress when he says, “I’m only 32 years old.”

That’s right, damn it! The guy is only 32 years old! Look, I’m not saying that 32 year old guys shouldn’t be fathers – in fact I believe that one’s late 20’s into their early 30’s is probably the right time to start a family in today’s society. However, studies continue to show that as time goes on, men want to get married later in life and women want to get married earlier. When I was doing the fraternity advising, I would consistently see guys who were so wrapped up in their girlfriends that they missed out on the “real world” that was going on around them. The sad thing is that after three or four years of being whipped, most of those guys wound up breaking up with their girlfriends and realized, too late, that they were being trapped by the girl because she wanted to be married.

This is what I think happened to Jon. He must have been so wrapped up with Kate that she either convinced him to get married or he thought that if he didn’t get married, she would leave. The guy got married at the age of 22 – that’s VERY YOUNG in today’s world!

In any event, I think you get my stance on this situation. These two had a gigantic family at a very young age and Jon – like most guys in his situation would have done – had to get out of the marriage. It’s probably the healthiest thing to do. The guy never got a chance to date different women in his adult life, he never had the chance to spend quality time with his guy friends, he never even had the chance to be a young adult that wasn’t committed to Kate. That’s what drove the guys insane! If Kate feels there is anger there, it’s because Jon is probably starting to realize all of this for the first time (as he suggests in his first quote). Maybe if they only had 2 or 3 kids, things would be different since he could be more flexible with his time, but 8 kids?! Come on…

I’m sure Jon has been no angel in this situation, but I don’t know what a typical woman’s stance would be. I hope the kids are well taken care of and who knows – maybe after spending a few years being a single guy, Jon will go back to Kate having finally matured enough to the point where he’s ready for a gigantic family.

All I know is that I still won’t watch this show!