As you may recall from yesterday, the teams were rearranged into the blue team and the black team, with Mike and Ron being broken up. The new teams took part in a 24-hour bike riding challenge, which gave the black team a three-pound advantage at the weigh in.

A healthy quiz

The teams then took part in a quiz on health and aging moderated by Prevention editor Liz Vaccariello. The first team to get three answers right won trips for two for each member to a resort in St. Augustine, Florida.

Players from both teams knew that drinking diet soda instead of regular wouldn’t help their life expectancy, but the blue team guessed cutting fat was better for life extension than cutting calories, which the black team correctly guessed.

The next question asked if pushups or squats were more valuable from a health standpoint. The blue team said pushups and the black team squats; the black team was right. Vaccariello explained that lower-body exercise helps improve flexibility, strength and endurance and can help prevent falls later in life.

Eating your vegetables

After the quiz several members of the blue team decided to have lunch before going to work out. Bob found them and when he saw they were eating chicken and rice, he took them into the kitchen to encourage them to eat more vegetables.

He showed them steamer packs of vegetables that go from the freezer to the microwave. They’re ready in about five minutes, have all the nutrients of fresh veggies, and are only about 45 calories per serving.

A different kind of last chance workout

The first last chance workout with the new teams is a strange experience for many who have new trainers.

Filipe said he missed Bob but Jillian and his new team were able to push him hard through an interval sprint he didn’t think he’d be able to complete. While Mandi didn’t want to switch, she says working out with Bob is good and that her heart was pumping throughout the workout.

Danny said that Bob was able to get him to do work he didn’t think he was able to do, while Helen reported that Jillian “beat my ass” in the workout.

The weigh-in

Alison explained to the teams that their weight would be considered as a team this week, with the team that lost the highest percentage of weight being safe. On the losing team, the person who lost the biggest percentage would be immune from elimination as well.

The weigh-in began with Bob’s team, the blue team.

• Dane lost 13 pounds (a 4 percent decrease). That loss put him at a 100-pound weight loss for the first eight weeks, the fastest weight loss ever on the show.
• Aubrey lost five pounds (2.3 percent) and said her loss “seems puny” compared to Dane’s.
• Mandi lost seven pounds (3.3 percent).
• Ron lost five pounds (1.4 percent). His son, Mike, now on the black team, says he’s “heartbroken” at the trouble his dad has had.
• Kristin lost 10 pounds (3.5 percent).
• Cathy lost 14 pounds (5.3 percent) after losing just a pound the week before.

The team’s total weight loss was 54 pounds, or 3.26 percent of their total weight. That means the black team would have to lose at least 50 pounds to win the weigh-in, not counting their three-pound advantage.

• Helen lost seven pounds (3.4 percent) and says she’s below 200 pounds for the first time in eight years.
• Laura lost eight pounds (3.3 percent).
• Tara lost 11 pounds (4.5 percent) and has now lost 83 pounds in eight weeks.
• Mike lost 10 pounds (3.3 percent), putting him below 300 with 91 pounds lost so far.
• Filipe lost eight pounds (2.7 percent).

With one contestant left to weigh in, the black team had lost 47 pounds including the bonus weight, so Sione had to have lost at least three pounds for the black team to win the challenge. He actually lost 10 pounds (3.4 percent), for a total team loss of 57 pounds or 3.65 percent of their weight.

Deciding who to send home

The blue team is clearly divided on who they want to send home, with Ron suggesting the team should look at who has the most support at home and who could continue to lose weight at home when they choose the teammate to eliminate.

He suggests they eliminate Dane, because he has Blaine at home to support him and can clearly lose a lot of weight. Dane says the team needs to focus more on who can bring in big weight loss totals, which will help the whole team, versus who hasn’t been having great totals.

He also says that Ron wants to get rid of him because he’s a threat to Mike. For his part, Mike says he would snap if his dad were no longer on the ranch.

Aubrey votes to eliminate Kristin, while Dane and Mandi both vote to send Ron home. Ron and Kathy vote to send Dane home, and the decision comes down to Kristin, who decides to eliminate Dane.

When Dane left for the ranch, his wife began training for a marathon, so he joined her when he got home and they ran the race together, finishing in three hours, 53 minutes, well, sort of. Internet reports have surfaced that they didn’t actually finish and were instead driven part of the distance in a van and thus don’t appear in the race results.

Dane’s wife says they had stopped to film at a water station and the film crew drove them three miles ahead to make up the time they lost, and that they’re still really proud of having run 23 miles, anyway.

(By Sarah E. White for CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)

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