(Original Air Date 9/22/2009)
Week 2 is notorious for being a difficult week for the Biggest Loser contestants on the show. In general, usually week one brings big loss across the board and week 2 slows down quite a bit on the heels of those big numbers.
Alison Sweeney offers the contestants a challenge this week…if the combined team can lose 150 lbs total, no one will be eliminated. If they do not meet this requirement, 2 people would be leaving the ranch.
“The universal truth to weight loss…this is the foundation of any program no matter what it might be…is calories in, calories out.” ~ Jillian Michaels
Tracey returns to the ranch after being in the hospital and seems nervous but ready to get down to business with her teammate Coach Mo.
All the contestants seem to be upset with Julio because of his lack of effort.
Trainer Tip:
Jillian Michaels (trainer): Keep a food journal and write everything down. This will help you to be accountable for the food and beverage choices that you are making throughout the day/week. It’s been reported that keeping a food journal can double your weight loss.
Healthy Food Challenge With Curtis Stone:
World class chef Curtis Stone teaches the contestants some healthy cooking tips that will aid them in a challenge. If they can answer 5 of 8 questions that Alison presents to them correctly, they will win a 15 lb advantage at the weigh-in.
Healthy Food and Cooking Tips:
1. Know your healthy portion sizes (he recommends The Biggest Loser Nutritional Scale to measure)
2. Use a healthy cooking method: bake, poach, steam, broil or grill
3. Be aware of the salad dressing/topping when eating out – this can be more calories than a different option
4. Pasta calories can be cut in half by substituting vegetables – for ex, zuccinni
5. Soda: way too much sugar to be consuming – give up soda!
6. Eat healthy snacks – incorporate protein because it refuels your muscles, helps increase your fullness and helps to maintain your blood sugar level
7. Eat 3 meals and 2 snacks throughout the day
*The contestants did win the challenge and the 15 lb advantage which meant that they now had to lose a total of 135 lbs instead of the original 150 lbs.
Curtis Stone Cooking Tip:
For a healthy sweet, grill or broil chunks of pineapple on a skewer and eat with some natural yogurt.
Group Challenge:
The contestants compete in a challenge whereby the have to walk across the water from raft to raft on planks that get more narrow as they proceed through 4 stages across the water. Everyone must make it across the planks and if one person falls in the water, the contest would be over.
Each stage has a prize:
- Raft 1: 5 lb weight advantage
- Raft 2: 5 lb weight advantage
- Raft 3: phone calls from home
- Raft 4: 10 lb weight advantage
*The contestants completed the challenge winning all the prizes for a total of 20 additional lbs won. They now only needed to lose a total of 115 lbs to keep everyone at the ranch! They also each enjoyed teary phone calls with their loved ones.
Last Chance Workout:
Bob and Jillian both discuss and agree that Julio needs some pressure from them as he’s not been working as hard as he should be.
“The gym here is almost like a truth serum. I can beat on them and beat on them and beat on them to the point that all of their defenses are down…and then everything that they’ve been stuffing down comes flooding up.”
~ Jillian Michaels
Weigh-In Results: (pounds lost this week, total lbs lost to date, current weight)
Daniel: 7 lbs, 19 lbs total, 293 lbs
Shay: 16 lbs, 33 lbs total, 443 lbs
Amanda: 4 lbs, 10 lbs total, 240 lbs
Rebecca: 6 lbs, 24 lbs total, 255 lbs
Rudy: 14 lbs, 42 lbs total, 400 lbs
Dina: 8 lbs, 16 lbs total, 237 lbs
Antoine: 8 lbs, 26 lbs total, 341 lbs
Sean: 11 lbs, 33 lbs total, 411 lbs
Liz: 10 lbs, 20 lbs total, 247 lbs
Danny: 12 lbs, 36 lbs total, 394 lbs
Allen: 10 lbs, 29 lbs total, 296 lbs
Abby: 11 lbs, 26 lbs total, 221 lbs
Julio: 19 lbs, 32 lbs total, 375 lbs
Coach Mo: 9 lbs, 28 lbs total, 327 lbs
Tracey: 10 lbs, 10 lbs total, 228 lbs (returned from the hospital, original weight was 238 lbs)
Biggest Loser for the Week:
No Biggest Loser this week because of the team challenge.
Lowest Team for the Week:
No lowest team this week because the team met the weight challenge.
Eliminated Contestant:
No one was eliminated this week because the team met the weight challenge.
Next Week on the Show:
Next week the contestants will be faced with an individual decision. They can choose to give up the trainers for the week in order to have complete control at the week’s weigh in. By the teaser, it looks as though someone did choose this as Bob & Jillian do not look happy!
Stay tuned!
