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"The Biggest Loser was very emotional last week as Nathan was the one to leave, and the ramifications are still being felt when we return to the ranch! Pam and Danni are crying on each other&amp;#039;s shoulders, knowing that now they&amp;#039;re going to have to work really hard to keep the white team going. &amp;quot;The good news is we&amp;#039;ll get lots of time with Jillian,&amp;quot; Pam muses. &amp;quot;The bad news - more time with Jillian.&amp;quot; So let&amp;#039;s see if they manage - the show&amp;#039;s kicking off with a quiz!  Junk food and a quiz The teams enter a special &amp;#039;junk room&amp;#039; through a vault, only to discover televisions, video games and piles and piles of sweets and junk food. (It&amp;#039;s hard not to feel hungry, to be honest.) After everyone&amp;#039;s looked round nervously, Alison arrives to explain that this room is representative of what&amp;#039;s causing childhood obesity. So to test the teams&amp;#039; knowledge, there&amp;#039;s going to be a quiz... and the losing team will have to spend four and a half hours a day - the average amount a kid spends watching TV - in the junk room this week. That is not something you want to happen if you&amp;#039;re trying to get in shape! After five questions (full of shocking figures about childhood obesity), the red team are safe, but the white and blue team are tied. Jeff is determined for the blue team to win, since he didn&amp;#039;t lose any weight last week. And Pam is just desperate for the white team to get a break! But after a tie break, the winners are... the white team! Pam&amp;#039;s so relieved that she starts crying, and Danni can&amp;#039;t help but laugh. But the blue team are devastated that they&amp;#039;ll be losing four and a half hours every day... and that they&amp;#039;ll have to tell Bob what&amp;#039;s happened!  Working Out Blue Team: The blue team are forced to enter the junk room, where they&amp;#039;re seriously tempted by the piles of food. Thank goodness for smart Alex, who pours orange juice all over it, effectively ruining it. There&amp;#039;s not much else for them to do but sit around. Meanwhile, Jillian takes great pleasure in telling Bob about the blue team&amp;#039;s misfortune (&amp;quot;Jillian&amp;#039;s so dramatic,&amp;quot; Bob grins in a funny little impression). But Bob just sees this as a challenge... Mind you, he might not be so happy when he walks into the room to discover everyone having a snooze. Still, he tells his team that he has faith that they can handle the situation, and they do get stuck into their workout after their junk room stint is over - even though it&amp;#039;s much harder after sitting about all day. &amp;quot;This is going to be a loooong week,&amp;quot; Michael sighs. Red Team: Dolvett&amp;#039;s really pleased with his team&amp;#039;s work so far (&amp;quot;The red team is on fire, you know, like the colour red&amp;quot;) but he knows that they can&amp;#039;t slack off now. Can he motivate them to keep going when they&amp;#039;re already doing well? Well, one person who&amp;#039;s finding things tough is Cate, who admits that she&amp;#039;s starting to feel her body shut down. Dolvett knows that it&amp;#039;s about something in her head, so he takes her aside for a little chat. Will the motivational words help her out?  White Team: Jillian&amp;#039;s not too happy about being down to two team members after two weeks, but she is surprised by how hard Danni and Pam are working this week. And Danni admits that she&amp;#039;d rather get a beating from Jillian than be stuck in the junk room! Later, Francelina spies on the team, so Jillian invites her to join their workout. And she also includes her in the team&amp;#039;s emotional discussion later, when Francelina admits her guilt about her response to her father&amp;#039;s death and her difficulty with dealing with his alcoholism. Jillian offers her some comforting and motivational words, and suggests Francelina could have an &amp;quot;amazing&amp;quot; life. For her part, Francelina admits that she was &amp;quot;naive&amp;quot; to think she could deal with her physical issues without dealing with her emotions. Now she&amp;#039;s looking forward to being &amp;quot;stronger&amp;quot; in that way! Dr Joanna meets the kids Time to check in on the kids, and this week Dr Joanna&amp;#039;s paying them a visit at their homes to educate them and their families about nutrition. She&amp;#039;s surprised to discover just how long Biingo plays video games each day (nine hours on a weekend day, for example), and limits him to two hours of screen time a day. For vegetarian Sunny, she advises switching her carbs - from white rice to brown, white bread to wholewheat and so on. As for Lindsay, there&amp;#039;s some bad news - she has pre-diabetes. She can fix it - as long as she starts to eat properly and exercise.  The next stage? Throwing out all the family&amp;#039;s junk food (I hope it went to a charity or something, though at least the soda goes right down the drain). Biingo&amp;#039;s dad admits that he feels responsible for buying the groceries, while Dr Joanna advises Sunny that she can have chocolate every now and then, just not keep it in the house. Now it&amp;#039;s time to replace it with healthier food - wholegrains, lean protein, reduced-fat dairy and fruit and vegetables. A Carnival Challenge Back to the adults, and it&amp;#039;s time for a trip to the carnival! Obviously, this isn&amp;#039;t any normal fairground - it&amp;#039;s a challenge. The teams will have to wade through a supremely icky vat of &amp;#039;bubblegum&amp;#039;, collect a ten pound gumball and return to their teams. The first team to 20 gumballs will win - but there&amp;#039;s a twist, because Joe and Pam are unable to compete for medical reasons. So Danni joins the blue team, while Pam roots for the white team. Everyone wants to win, because each member of the victorious team will receive $5,000 worth of healthy groceries (over a year, of course).  The challenge is really tough though, and we see the contestants getting seriously bogged down in the bubblegum goo. Alex is worried about her pants falling down, Jackson jokes that he looks like a &amp;quot;swamp creature&amp;quot;, and Michael quips that the challenge was definitely designed for smaller contestants. Jackson even looks like he might throw up again, though he manages to stop himself (rightly pointing out his team would not be happy if they had to wade through that...). But eventually Michael begins to really struggle to move through the gum (though he vows not to quit), and the red team in turn snatches victory! They&amp;#039;re all very excited, and Pam even jumps into the gum herself to see what it really was like. &amp;quot;Oh, this is no joke!&amp;quot; she announces. Everyone&amp;#039;s been put off gum, that&amp;#039;s for sure. Last Chance Workouts Red Team: Dolvett is urging his team to work really hard, but he&amp;#039;s so pleased with their attitude - they&amp;#039;re all giving it everything they have, as he knows they need to. Jackson, for example, is determined to show his team what he can do after losing 2lb last week - he was disappointed with the result. Elsewhere, Cate is working really hard and is over the moon when Dolvett says he&amp;#039;s proud of her. Aww!  White Team: Jillian and Pam are not too pleased to be returning to the outdoor gym - the place where Pam broke down last week! But Jillian is thrilled with Pam and Danni&amp;#039;s work this week... that is, until Pam begins to cry on the treadmill. Jillian&amp;#039;s clearly frustrated, as Pam admits that she doesn&amp;#039;t feel like she can break down her walls. The pair basically just end up in a shouting match as Pam suggests that Jillian&amp;#039;s working her until she breaks. Will the pair manage to get over their differences so Pam can get back to work? And can Pam learn to believe in herself? Blue Team: The blue team are seriously fed up of the junk room by now, so when Bob suggests that they should do the last chance workout in there, they&amp;#039;re not pleased (&amp;quot;I hate him,&amp;quot; Michael laughs). As injured David goes off to work out on his own, Bob initiates a horrifyingly tough workout for the other contestants based on a deck of cards - each card indicates a type of exercise and the number of reps they have to complete. He takes some serious pleasure in it, too, giggling whenever he turns over the next card. Ouch! But though they&amp;#039;re exhausted, the team acknowledge the symbolism - it shows them that the room doesn&amp;#039;t have to hold them back. Let&amp;#039;s see if it affects the weigh-in... The Weigh-In Time to find out who&amp;#039;s going home! This time, there&amp;#039;s no red line - instead, the losing team will have to vote to send one of their players out of the ranch. Unless it&amp;#039;s the white team, in which case the person with the lowest weight loss will be automatically eliminated. Time to find out!  Blue Team Jeff: Jeff says he did try to push hard this week, given that he didn&amp;#039;t lose any weight last time. He&amp;#039;s nervous, but he doesn&amp;#039;t need to be - he&amp;#039;s dropped 11lb from 359lb to 348lb. He&amp;#039;s pleased, explaining that he really tried to work hard. And Bob&amp;#039;s pleased, too, saying he came into every workout prepared to go hard. Jeff&amp;#039;s thrilled that Bob&amp;#039;s noticed his efforts! Alex: Alex has dropped 4lb, going from 225lb to 221lb. She&amp;#039;s pleased with that, considering the time she had to be locked up in the junk room! David: David&amp;#039;s gone from 278lb to 272lb, a loss of 6lb. Bob points out that considering David&amp;#039;s got an injury right now and got stuck in the junk room, he&amp;#039;s done really well. Michael: Michael&amp;#039;s hoping to drop under 400lb this week - and he does! He drops a huge 13lb from 409lb to 396lb. &amp;quot;That is incredible!&amp;quot; Michael grins, saying that he had been under 400lb before but didn&amp;#039;t have his emotional side in order so went up again. But he vows never to go back to 400lb! &amp;quot;If you keep this up we&amp;#039;ll have to stop calling you Big Mike,&amp;quot; Alison jokes. Gina: Gina has shed 8lb this week, going from 223lb to 215lb. There are loads of claps for her as she smiles that it&amp;#039;s a good number! That means that the blue team have a total weight loss of 42lb (2.81%). Next up are the red team (much to Pam&amp;#039;s dismay, who doesn&amp;#039;t want to be weighed last). Anyway, the red team will have to lose more than 36lb to be safe - can they do it? Dolvett&amp;#039;s hoping their hard work will pay off - let&amp;#039;s find out...  Red Team Francelina: Francelina has dropped 5lb, going from 242lb to 237lb. She&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;okay&amp;quot; with that number, given that she had a tough start to the week. Joe: Joe has shed 9lb, dropping from 326lb to 317lb. He&amp;#039;s happy, though he admits that he wanted to lose more than 9lb. Dolvett insists that he shouldn&amp;#039;t be ashamed of that number - he should be proud of what he&amp;#039;s achieved. Jackson: Jackson is feeling pretty confident - he feels like he&amp;#039;s been able to work more this week and is hoping that he&amp;#039;s lost more than he did last time, while Dolvett says he needs a big number. Unfortunately, Jackson&amp;#039;s disappointed to learn he went from 302lb... to 300lb. Seeing a -2 on the screen makes Jackson cry, as he insists he doesn&amp;#039;t know what he&amp;#039;s doing wrong. Dolvett reassures him that he&amp;#039;s doing everything right - he&amp;#039;s still losing weight, after all. He just needs to keep fighting! Jackson&amp;#039;s upset that his team is in trouble, now, and explains that he really doesn&amp;#039;t want to go home yet. Cate: Cate really wants to pull a &amp;quot;miracle&amp;quot; this week, since she&amp;#039;s contributed the least to the team&amp;#039;s weight loss so far and is determined to make it up to them. But she, too, is upset when she learns that she&amp;#039;s dropped 2lb from 220lb to 218lb. Dolvett insists that he&amp;#039;s still proud of her for her work and her efforts to examine her emotional side. But Cate admits that she feels &amp;quot;low&amp;quot; - she wanted to help her team. Lisa: Lisa keeps up the trend - she&amp;#039;s also lost 2lb, going from 225lb to 223lb. Dolvett admits that he&amp;#039;s upset, explaining that the numbers aren&amp;#039;t reflective of all the work his team has done. They all deserve to be there and he couldn&amp;#039;t ask for anything more from them. So that means the blue team is safe, but with a total of 20lb (1.52%) weight loss from the red team, their fate lies with the white team. Pam and Danni need to have lost more than six pounds between them, but will they manage?  White Team Danni: Danni&amp;#039;s first to take the scales, and she points out that while 6lb doesn&amp;#039;t sound like much, anything could happen! But look at this - she&amp;#039;s lost 6lb, going from 234lb to 228lb! She&amp;#039;s thrilled, and Jillian is too, pointing out that Danni has been really trying hard. She says Danni has put in a &amp;quot;solid&amp;quot; performance, while Danni thanks her for pushing. Pam: Pam says that while she knows she only needs to lose one pound to save the white team, that isn&amp;#039;t a guarantee of success - after all Jeff lost nothing last week. Jillian, too, agrees that anything can happen. But luckily for Pam, she&amp;#039;s actually done super well - she&amp;#039;s the biggest loser of the week after shedding 9lb, going from 219lb to 210lb! Jillian&amp;#039;s so thrilled that she starts whooping and dancing as everyone laughs. But Jillian reminds her that from now on she can&amp;#039;t use defeatist language - she has to stop fighting with her!  Anyway, the white team lost a total of 15lb (only 5lb off the red team, who had three more people) - a percentage of 3.31. So they&amp;#039;re safe, and someone from the red team is heading home. But who? The Vote Everyone&amp;#039;s worried about the vote - Jackson says he&amp;#039;s pulled consistently low numbers so could be going, while Cate thinks she&amp;#039;ll be out because she&amp;#039;s contributed the least to the team&amp;#039;s weight loss. Even Dolvett&amp;#039;s upset, explaining that his team is &amp;quot;amazing&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;inspiring&amp;quot; - he doesn&amp;#039;t want to say goodbye to them yet. Joe is safe, since he had the biggest weight loss of the team, though. So one by one the contestants troop into the voting booth to pick their choice from a touchscreen (or, in the case of Cate, cover their eyes and stab wildly at the screen. She explains that she just couldn&amp;#039;t bear to choose). Then the team regroup to explain their reasons - and Cate learns that she voted for Jackson, who understands her reasoning. For his part, Jackson explains that since he, Cate and Lisa all lost 2lb this week, he decided to choose one of them - and went for Lisa, since he thinks she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;strong&amp;quot; and can keep it up at home. Francelina had the same reasoning, but went for Cate, as did Joe. It&amp;#039;s down to Lisa, who reveals that she voted for Cate to leave because she knows her dreams of running a marathon will come true. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s going to call me when she runs that marathon and I&amp;#039;ll be at the finish line with Dolvett,&amp;quot; she says. Cate appreciates that everyone knows she can lose weight at home, but that doesn&amp;#039;t mean she wanted to leave - she emotionally admits that it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;heartbreaking&amp;quot; leaving her team and says she&amp;#039;d just started to figure things out with Dolvett. She knows that she can succeed though - and sure enough, when we meet her for an update she&amp;#039;s dropped from a starting weight of 237lb to 196lb! And what&amp;#039;s more, she&amp;#039;s training for a marathon with her friend. Looks like things are going well for Cate! The Biggest Loser airs on NBC. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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