I will admit that last night was the hardest episode of The Biggest Loser: Second Chances I have ever watched.  This entire season has had some really tough moments, I have choked up a lot.  But, when the covered Abby Rike’s tragedy again, with more footage than previously seen, I lost it.  My heart broke for this courageous woman.  So I was of course really disappointed when she was eliminated (by choice) at the end of the show last night.

Abby Rike lost everything in 2006.  He loving husband, five year old daughter and 2 week old son were all killed in a tragic car accident. Abby was left with nothing.  Her life would never be the same and she didn’t know how she could live life without them. This led her to The Biggest Loser,

“Losing weight is kind of like shedding the sadness and hurt and emerging stronger.  My life will matter again.”

Before the accident, Abby was content and loving her life,

“I wouldn’t have traded lives with any human on the planet because my life was the best,” she remembers. “After the wreck, all my roles were gone. I wasn’t a wife anymore. I wasn’t a mother anymore. I was broken and falling apart inside. There were pieces of shrapnel where my heart used to be — it was shattered.”

“You can’t bury your two children and the love of your life and think, Oh, I’m just going to be okay,” she says. Still, she began to realize, “you can’t help what happens to you, but you can choose how you respond to it.  My journey was more about finding out where I fit into the world.  For me it was truly about healing from the inside out.”

Ok, I am crying again.  This is such a touching story.  I admire Abby Rike.  She is one of the strongest women I have ever seen and I am so proud of her.  I hope and pray that she is able to find love again, that she might even be able to have more children.  She certainly looks amazing!  Her before and after pictures are shocking.  Abby is an inspiration to anyone who gets the chance to hear her story and see the life changes she has worked so hard to make.

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