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"Biggest Loser: Battle of the Ages said goodbye to its oldest contestant in episode two as 66-year-old Johnny Forger was sent home when the Blue Team, trained by Anna Kournikova, lost a second consecutive weigh-in. The Boston native was inspired to enter the show after relatives pointed out that there weren&amp;#039;t many men of his size walking around at 70 and he wanted to get healthy in order to play with his grandchildren and enjoy life. Here&amp;#039;s what Johnny told reporters about the experience: Did you know what you were in for when you arrived at the ranch? &amp;quot;I had watched the show half a dozen times and my family had watched the show religiously before.... I thank them, quite frankly, because I think they have changed my life and saved my life because we get to a point as you&amp;#039;re ageing where people start passing away and getting overweight and having problems and you accept them and don&amp;#039;t get off the couch and stop eating or whatever else. &amp;quot;I have learned that food is fuel to get me to do what I need to do, not to become complacent. I feel like I&amp;#039;m in my 40s and it&amp;#039;s something America can do if they pay attention to it and get a hold of it. Get your calorie counter, get The Biggest Loser book and read it. Put together the calories, stay away from the white flour and away you go. I&amp;#039;ve only been at this four months and I&amp;#039;ve dropped a big load of weight and I&amp;#039;m doing it regularly every week. I&amp;#039;m not hungry, I&amp;#039;m happy and I sleep better.&amp;quot; What has been motivating you at home? &amp;quot;When I got booted it was a shock to me because I was working hard and I anticipated maybe a 4 or 5lbs drop but I had overdone the Advil, which causes a lot of fluid retention. I made a mistake. On the plane going home I thought there is no way I&amp;#039;d come back on the show and have lost 5lbs, I&amp;#039;m going to go at it tooth and nail and make a lifestyle change. They made a big difference in what they taught me, things I never knew, and it simplified the eating process and understanding what the exercise is all about really kicked in. I feel so much better so thank you Biggest Loser.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Biggest Loser: Battle of the Ages: Meet the new contestants - videos &amp;gt; Read Digital Spy&amp;#039;s full Biggest Loser headlines What has your work out regime at home been like? &amp;quot;Dr Huizenga told me it&amp;#039;s 75% calories and the type of foods you ingest, and it&amp;#039;s 25% the exercise. He says there are guys who will spend an hour or hour and a half a day to maintain their good shape. He&amp;#039;s quite a guy and he turned the whole thing around and I understood it. &amp;quot;There are days I don&amp;#039;t want to go [to the gym] but talking to Jerry, one of the fellows who won the at-home prize, he said there are times when he didn&amp;#039;t want to go but you just have to do it. Sometimes I wind up at the gym at eight, nine, ten o&amp;#039;clock at night, some mornings six or seven o&amp;#039; clock, or two o&amp;#039;clock in the afternoon, but I know I have to do it. It&amp;#039;s made me feel like a different person and I&amp;#039;m enjoying it. I recommend it highly to America - do it. You might like it. You will like it.&amp;quot;  How was it working with Anna Kournikova as your trainer? &amp;quot;Anna is a world-class athlete and there were rumours that &amp;#039;Oh, she won&amp;#039;t be tough and a real trainer&amp;#039;, well she is more than a trainer because the trainers usually train and aren&amp;#039;t the ones being trained constantly. Anna explained her life from the age of 5 coming to the US and becoming a tennis player at 9 and the intensity that she went through. She said, &amp;#039;You need to do this&amp;#039; and I knew she knew and had experienced it. She was good, hard and tough and there were days when I thought to myself,&amp;#039; Where is the break, there is no break!&amp;#039; like you saw in the week before with Bonnie asking for water and so forth. &amp;quot;She taught me in my own head that when I walked into the gym, in three hours it doesn&amp;#039;t matter what she can do to us, she can do just as she pleases and push us to the limit because I know that 10 or 15 minutes after it&amp;#039;s over I&amp;#039;m going to feel like a new man and I wanted it.  &amp;quot;She took us outside one Sunday morning and I thought we&amp;#039;d go for a walk in the pastures but we took a right hand turn and climbed a mountain, got up, came back down, and it was a tough climb. We came back almost to the gym and I thought to myself, &amp;#039;She could kill me, I don&amp;#039;t care, it&amp;#039;s 100 degrees out here, air conditioning here we come!&amp;#039; Then Anna turns around with her big hat on and says, &amp;#039;OK, off you go to the hill again!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; How has your training for the marathon been going? &amp;quot;I have been training since I got home. I am 66 years old now and when they first talked about the marathon I thought to myself, &amp;#039;Not a chance in hell they&amp;#039;ll see me out there!&amp;#039; But I am ready to head out and give it my all! &amp;quot;I have done some pretty amazing things in the last month. I did the Jimmy Fund Walk from Wellesley following the marathon route, which was 13 to 14 miles, and when they talk about that Heartbreak Hill, boy, I gotta tell you, we were only walking it and it was a backbreaker, a heartbreaker, a headbreaker! I don&amp;#039;t know how they run up it, but they did. Most of that trip from Wellesley was uphill. I&amp;#039;m looking forward to [the Biggest Loser marathon] and the challenge with my other teammates and contestants and we&amp;#039;ll see what happens.&amp;quot;  &amp;gt; Biggest Loser Debbie Lounds interview: &amp;#039;Anna Kournikova is a great trainer&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Anna Kournikova on joining Biggest Loser: It was total role-reversal What is the most important thing you learned about yourself at the ranch? &amp;quot;I guess that I could do things that I thought had gone by. I was settling into accepting that maybe because of my age I couldn&amp;#039;t get out of the couch as easily, and I&amp;#039;d blame the couch because it was soft, but I have now learned that sticking with and going through the workouts, that age doesn&amp;#039;t matter and the aches don&amp;#039;t matter. You have to address them, don&amp;#039;t let them rule you, you rule them.&amp;quot; Do you think the Blue Team have what it takes to survive? &amp;quot;Yes, I do. I&amp;#039;m not sure that they will all make it but there are a couple of them who are pretty tough athletes. Coach is a great guy and great athlete and a leader on our team and inspiration for showing us what we can do for the shape we&amp;#039;re in. Becky is a natural born athlete. I watched her swim the first time I met her and she was a powerhouse.  &amp;quot;The age has the wisdom and experience and after a week or two in that gym you get your fortitude and your muscles come back, so I&amp;#039;m banking on one of those two, or both.&amp;quot; The Biggest Loser airs Tuesdays at 8/7c on NBC "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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