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[Photos: © 2009 NBC Universal, Inc.]
On this week’s Biggest Loser, the nine remaining contestants were flown to Washington D.C. where they were given the opportunity to help their fellow Americans live healthier lives.
Allison Sweeney gave them a Pop Challenge. They were to bring as many people as they could to a workout session by the Washington Monument. The person to bring the most people would win the challenge.
It was very close, but Liz won the challenge. She got to take all of her recruits to Subway for dinner.
Then Jillian, Bob and the nine contestants went to talk to members of Congress about changes needed to stop the obesity statistics from rising.
Next, Allison told them they would have a four-part challenge. The winner would get immunity. These were the four steps in the challenge:
- Run one mile around Constitution Gardens. The top 6 finishers would continue to the second phase.
- They had to gather 17,954 pennies. That’s one penny to represent each pound lost to date on the Biggest Loser [WOW!] The first four people to gather their pennies would move on to the next phase. Liz had won a chance to sit out one level of this challenge because she won the Pop Challenge.
- They had to balance the longest on a ledge while holding a pilates ball over their head. The two that hold on the longest compete in the final challenge.
- The first person to take 206 steps first would win immunity. 206 stands for the number of Biggest Loser contestants so far. The winner of the challenge was Rebecca.
The next day, they all went to the White House to pick vegetables from the White House garden and use them to cook a meal with the White House chef.
[Photo: © 2009 NBC Universal, Inc.]
The teams were over and they now were to weigh in for themselves. Here’s how the weigh-in went:
| Name | Last Wk. | This Wk. | Loss | % |
| Allen | 262 | 253 | -9 | 3.44% |
| Rebecca (immun.) | 223 | 219 | -4 | 1.79% |
| Tracey | 197 | 194 | -3 | 1.52% |
| Liz | 221 | 218 | -3 | 1.36% |
| Rudy | 341 | 332 | -9 | 2.64% |
| Amanda | 214 | 207 | -7 | 3.27% |
| Shay | 402 | 393 | -9 | 2.24% |
| Danny | 345 | 333 | -12 | 3.48% |
| Daniel | 272 | 261 | -11 | 4.04% |
 [Photo: © 2009 NBC Universal, Inc.] |
The two people who fell below the yellow line this week were Liz and Tracey. Even though I have come to dislike her less over the past week or so, I was still glad that they chose to send Tracey home. She was just too much of a game player and not there for the right reasons, until maybe this week.
Since she’s been home, she has lost even more weight and has now dropped 86 lbs. so far. She’s training for a full marathon and looks terrific.
Who would you have voted to send home? Do you think the team made the right choice to send home Tracey? Let us know!