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The Biggest Loser Season 7
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Episode 2 Results
Immunity Challenge....Kayaking across the shore and climbing up to the mountain. First person to reach the top gets immunity and the top four finishers get to call home.
Tara won the immunity, she gave her phone call to Filipe
Blaine came in 2nd
Mandi came in 3rd
Helen came in 4th
Daniel was last and got an one pound penalty at the weigh in.
Week 2 Weigh-in Results:
Week 1 Wgt Week 2 Wgt Pounds lost Percentage
Tara 273 272 1 not shown due to immunity
Blaine 351 335 16
Dane 392 378 14 30 combined 4.04%
Mandi 251 245 6 2.39%
Helen 245 237 8 3.27%
Ron 398 386 12
Michael 366 359 7 19 combined 2.49%
Damien 364 355 9 2.47%
Kristin 341 331 10 2.93%
Filipe 347 336 9 2.59%
Joelle 296 294 2 0.68%
Jerry 344 343 1 0.29%
Daniel 424 421 3 +1lb penalty 0.47%
Jerry and Daniel falls below the yellow line and at the elimination, needs five votes to go home and the first five votes indicated all went to Jerry.
marigold:
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An interview with Jerry:
Biggest Loser Castoff: "My Grandson Now Calls Me Less Fluffy"
When Jerry Hayes, 63, stepped onto the Biggest Loser campus, he was the oldest contestant in its seven-season history. Losing only 1-pound in the second-week weigh-in, Jerry was in the bottom two with Dan, 19, the heaviest player this season. But eventually Jerry was voted out by his fellow players, who felt the younger competitor needed to stay. TVGuide.com caught up with the retired engineer who's lost 96 pounds ("My grandson now calls me less fluffy") and how other self proclaimed "couch potatas" can get up and start moving.
TVGuide.com: Joelle only lost 1 pound this week but was safe from elimination after Dan received a 1-pound penalty for coming in last in the challenge. What went through your head knowing that if Joelle was in the bottom two, she would've been voted out over you?
Jerry Hayes: I was disappointed. I actually dreamed about me and Dan in this situation two days before it happened. I was dreading it, but Dan had to stay. But me and Joelle, we're starting to talk.
TVGuide.com: Bob had a big blow-up with Joelle that involved a lot of expletives. Did something behind the scenes lead up to this?
Hayes: Sometimes she wouldn't do the work-out. When you're not in the gym there's home-work where we'd have to do our own program for 3 or 4 hours. They'd tell us what to do and we'd do it and she wouldn't always follow that. She was doing her own thing at times and it just led up to that. He got frustrated. I guess he never does, [so] it was unique situation. But what you saw, I couldn't believe it [and] I was there.
TVGuide.com: How did it feel to hear Ron be so adamant about keeping Dan?
Hayes: I didn't have any problem with that. It was okay because me and Ron talked about it. We talked a lot because we're the older guys. I didn't want to go though. I have to tell you I did not want to go but the decision had to be made and was obvious it had to be me. But I still didn't want to go.
TVGuide.com: Do you have any advice for other grandparents discouraged about losing weight at this stage in their lives?
Hayes: Well you need help. I have a trainer here but you have to start slow and get your mind on it. Just keep trying and trying, you'll get faster, you'll get stronger. You got to challenge yourself. You need support, whether it's your spouse, friend. At the health center we go to there's a community of older people that feed off each other. On my own, it'd take a little bit longer than it's happening but I could do it. You just got to believe. There are signs in the [Biggest Loser] gym. "Believe in Yourself," "Trust in the Process," and "Change Forever." [trainer Bob Harper] said it and I keep quoting it myself whenever I'm doubting it. And it's working.
TVGuide.com: Do you have any diet tips or ways to curve cravings?
Hayes: Exercise! I'm not kidding exercise curves your cravings. The one thing you got to make sure is you have a snack with you when you're exercising and for when your energy level drops. An apple with string cheese, or something that gets your energy back up. The day off is the biggest challenge for me with food because I'm not exercising so it doesn't keep my appetite down.
TVGuide.com: How many days off do you give yourself?
Hayes: One day. We give one day to Sunday.
Link to the artcle: http://www.tvguide.com/News/Biggest-Loser-Jerry-1001657.aspx
marigold:
An interesting article:
Jerry Hayes talks about his time on 'The Biggest Loser: Couples'
Gerald "Jerry" Hayes, a 63-year-old retired engineer from Wheaton, IL, didn't have any trouble making his way through his first workout on The Biggest Loser: Couples. However, the aftermath of his workout took a quick -- and memorable -- turn for the worse.
"I started feeling dizzy about five minutes before I fainted... it was pretty quick," Hayes told Reality TV World in a media conference call the day after his The Biggest Loser elimination aired on Tuesday night's broadcast. "Things started moving around. I was looking up at the windows of the gym and they started shifting on me."
However, although he was briefly hospitalized -- which he said only kept him away from The Biggest Loser ranch for five or six hours -- after he passed out at the competition's initial workout, Hayes said the possibility of leaving the show was never discussed as an option.
"[I fainted] because I was low on potassium and water, and the suggestion [was to] make sure you had enough water and take my potassium pills and if I got faint again [to] lay down on the floor because my blood pressure dropped and that's what did it. So if I lay down on the floor than my heart and my head would be at the same level," Hayes told Reality TV World.
Hayes also said that both he or Estella Hayes, his 63-year-old wife, had initially been unhappy about the first-week twist that had sent nine contestants home to work out on their own.
"We were upset, I'll tell you that much," Hayes told Reality TV World. "But once we understood we were gonna earn our partner back -- we thought that they were going home permanently -- then we kinda understood. Once they started explaining to us that it was to [inspire] everybody else at home, the audience that works out at home, then we calmed down."
He added that while he and his wife had each wanted to go home so that the other could remain on the ranch, they had come to a decision rather quickly.
"I wanted her to stay and I wanted to go home, and she wanted me to stay. But it was not really a debate, it only took about... 10 minutes," he told Reality TV World.
When it came to his own elimination one week later, Jerry did not blame his one-pound weight loss on any side effects from his hospital visit. Instead, he told reporters that his body's adjustment to his Week 1 weight loss combined with blisters on his foot may have led to his sub-par weight loss in Week 2.
"I had a foot problem, because the first week I lost 25 lbs. and that's when I was being limited by exercise, but I was walking a lot." he told reporters. "I was walking outside and I was trying to make it up there, but by walking I ended up with these blisters on my foot, and it made me do the bike more."
"But I think I just lost so much weight the first week, that I couldn't recover from it [during the second week]," he added.
Jerry said that he had even had a dream that he and Daniel Wright, a 19-year-old student from Willow Spring, NC, would fall below the yellow line at Week 2's weigh-in. He also said that while he certainly hadn't wanted to be eliminated from the competition so early, he was fine with the other contestants' decision to sent him home and let Daniel stay at the ranch.
"I love Daniel, I wanted him there. I actually talked to 'the other contestants and said they had to [vote for me]," Jerry told reporters. "I had my wife at home, I have my kids who are all very supportive. Daniel is very young, he has his whole life ahead of him. They came to the right conclusion."
"Daniel is a very special person," he said, before adding that the pair have kept in touch. "[Daniel's] gonna be a Baptist minister, and he's just a kind and nice man."
In addition to Daniel, Jerry said he's also kept in contact with Shanon Thomas, a 29-year-old massage therapist from Centerline, MI, and Joelle Gwynn, a 41-year-old non-profit founder from Southfield, MI.
Now that he's home, Jerry said that his weight-loss regimen consists of three-and-a-half hour workouts at a local gym which he visits six days a week and maintaining his metabolism with a daily minimum intake of calories.
He now weighs 96 lbs. less than when he arrived at The Biggest Loser ranch and has encountered numerous health benefits along the way.
"I was a diabetic, I'm not a diabetic anymore. It's just gone," he told reporters. "My blood pressure is well under control and my cholesterol, I think I'm lower than an 18-year-old. It's unbelievable."
He also added that his improved health had effected how he and Estella now spend time with their grandchildren.
"I'll tell ya, I'm much more focused, I'm more outgoing," he told reporters. "I wanna be around with my grandkids, but it's not just [watching] one TV show to another, it's doing stuff together and really focusing on changing our lives."
And what did he think of trainer Bob Harper's already famous tongue-lashing of Joelle?
Jerry said that Joelle may have irked the trainer by not following her "homework" programs at the gym.
"So it just led up to [what you saw]. But what you saw, I couldn't believe it and I was there too. He just got frustrated," Jerry told reporters. "I guess he never does that. It was a unique situation."
Link to the article: http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/jerry-hayes-talks-about-his-time-on-the-biggest-loser-couples-8289.php
marigold:
The Biggest Loser Trainer Jillian Michaels Update:
"Today" show Monday, January 26 (9-10 a.m.) Jillian Michaels is interviewed
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