Teammates Britney and Toy both fell below the yellow line in The Biggest Loser Season 17 Episode 1, leading to Britney’s elimination.
First up, they are greeted by a food court. They will race to answer trivia questions about food. Whoever gets it right quickest gets a point, and they can force two people from the other team to eat the food or lose a point. This seems like kind of a mean challenge and as it turns out, just a matter of process of elimination and mere seconds in foot races.
From the Italian counter, Erin selects pizza as the dish with the highest amount of fat. From the Mexican counter, the unhealthiest school menu item is nachos, which Luis gets correct. Not wanting Toy to put up another low number, Dolvett eats for her. Back to Italian, the dish with the same sodium the average American consumes in a day is chicken alfredo, which Jacky gets correct after enough guesses. At the American counter, the dish with twice as many calories as the rest is mac and cheese, which Whitney gets after guessing almost everything else. Jen eats in Hope’s place the food that is surprisingly high in calories in fat. For dessert, the dish with more than 20 grams of fat is apple pie a la mode, which Rob gets correct to win for Dolvett’s team. They will be able to choose one player to sit out at the weigh in.
Next they take a visit to Dr. H. Colby finds out he’s drinking over 400 pounds of sugar per year. Jacky’s daughter is taking after her parents already at age 12. Toy has 218 pounds of hydrated fat. As for Rob, he can expect to die in less than 5 years.
And then it’s already time for a last chance workout. More drama between Felicia and Dolvett. I take it this means this is not so much a 2 hour episode as 2-1 hour episodes. This will sure get the season over in a hurry.
Dolvett’s team has chosen to sit Colby out of the weigh in. He lost a lot less than Luis and Roberto last week, perhaps making him due for a bigger week, but he was still pretty close to the top of the pack.
Colby: 309 pounds (-12, 3.74%)
Sarah: 244 pounds (-6, 2.40%)
Toy: 302 pounds (-6, 1.95%)
Vicki: 220 pounds (-6, 2.65%)
Erin: 222 pounds (-6, 2.63%)
Luis: 278 pounds (-7, 2.46%)
Felicia: 216 pounds (-4, 1.82%)
Roberto: 315 pounds (-9, 2.78%)
Stephen: 289 pounds (-9, 3.02%)
Hope: 220 pounds (-2, 0.90%)
Whitney: 243 pounds (no change)
Lauren: 215 pounds (-8, 3.59%)
Jacky: 287 pounds (-3, 1.03%)
Jen’s team wins the weigh in 2.09% to 1.85%. The choice of not counting Colby’s weight was the right one, but it was not enough. Whitney and Jacky have fallen below the yellow line.
Votes
Whitney
Jacky
Whitney
Whitney
Felicia votes for her friend to stay, but with 3 votes, Whitney is not The Biggest Loser after having lost no weight this week.
Then Felicia goes off about Dolvett, as their relationship gets increasingly trainwrecky. He realizes that something’s not working.
Bob drives up in a chicken truck. Each team will have to pull three food trucks over 600 feet. Two players will pull the small truck, four the medium truck, and everybody the big one. Reward is a crash course with chef Lorena Garcia, while the losing team’s punishment is to eat from the trucks for the week. Colby and Sarah sit out for medical reasons.
Roberto & Luis are up against Richard & Stephen. We know how this is going to end, and that pretty well sets the pace, with Jen’s team finally winning a challenge.
The food truck can be just fine if it’s done correctly. But that’s not going to happen or at least not right away. The first lunch sees orders of bacon and two of every taco.
The next new twist for this season is the last chance challenge. Reward is a 2 pound advantage. Each of four people must row 500 meters. Jen’s team never looks back after Lauren takes the lead over Jacky.
Colby: 300 pounds (-9, 2.91%)
Rob: 289 pounds (-10, 3.34%)
Roberto: 308 pounds (-7, 2.22%)
Stephen: 283 pounds (-6, 2.08%)
Sarah: 237 pounds (-7, 2.87%)
Toy: 295 pounds (-7, 2.32%)
Vicki: 214 pounds (-6, 2.73%)
Erin: 216 pounds (-6, 2.70%)
Lauren: 211 pounds (-4, 1.86%)
Felicia: 209 pounds (-7, 3.24%)
Hope: 218 pounds (-2, 0.91%)
Jacky: 278 pounds (-9, 3.14%)
Luis: 273 pounds (-5, 1.80%)
Richard: 285 pounds (-9, 3.06%)
Dolvett’s team wins 2.73% to 2.48%, which was bound to happen eventually after having lost the first two weeks. That puts Hope and Luis in danger.
Votes
Luis
Hope
Hope
Hope
Hope’s husband votes for her to stay, but the rest of the team keeps the biggest motivator with the most weight to lose. With 3 votes, Hope is not The Biggest Loser.
From her starting weight of 253 pounds, Whitney is down to 222 pounds today; from her starting weight of 232 pounds, Hope is down to 200 pounds.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Season 17 Episode 3, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.