After falling below the red line in The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 6, Gina was eliminated.
Jessie chooses today to tap into his team’s inner athletes. He starts off with Lori, three time gold medalist, and tries to hit her pitches.
The teams have a task this week of holding 15% of their body weight above their heads. If they let go, their trainers will fall into the pool. The first team to fail will lose their trainer for the week, and the next team will only have their trainer for the last chance workout. Sonya and Woody (rather than Rondalee) sit out for the white team. Blake sits out for the red team.
After half an hour, nobody has let go. Scott drops at 34 minutes. Jordan follows. It’s pretty much a lost cause for the red team, the heaviest of the bunch, and Rob is next. White and blue teams are still intact after 50 minutes. JJ is the first person to drop from the white team. Then Toma. And of course Rondalee falls next. This is kind of a silly challenge since one person falling is leading to the downfall of everybody else. Blue team is the only team that will have their trainer for the week.
Gina: 204 pounds (-3, 1.45%)
Matt: 315 pounds (-2, 0.63%)
They both put up pretty bad numbers, but Matt’s big week last week caught up with him, allowing Gina to get by with a 3 pound weight loss.
Rob: 396 pounds (-9, 2.22%)
Jordan: 259 pounds (-7, 2.63%)
Scott: 288 pounds (-7, 2.37%)
Blake: 199 pounds (-5, 2.45%)
Red Total: 1142 pounds (-28, 2.39%)
Lori: 258 pounds (-5, 1.90%)
Jackie: 252 pounds (-2, 0.79%)
Damien: 326 pounds (-5, 1.51%)
Blue Total: 836 pounds (-12, 1.42%)
JJ: 328 pounds (-7, 2.09%)
Toma: 271 pounds (-4, 1.45%)
Woody: 342 pounds (-4, 1.16%)
Rondalee: 234 pounds (-2, 0.85%)
Sonya: 221 pounds (-6, 2.64%)
White Total: 1396 pounds (-23, 1.62%)
Interestingly, the less time teams had with their trainer this week, the better they did. As the smallest loser both on the losing blue team and overall, Jackie has fallen below the red line and been eliminated.
From his starting weight of 386 pounds, Matt is down 114 pounds to 272 today. His girlfriend has been begging him for a few years to go up to a waterfall with her, but he could not (or did not want to) make the trek. When they reach the top, he proposes.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 16 Episode 8, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on NBC.