The contestants hang out in the kitchen eating Subway sandwiches (natch!) when they are treated to a visit from Bob and Jillian. They tell the trainers that they now have a 35-pound advantage at the weigh-in, and Bob and Jillian remind them that losing a collective 115 pounds is still going to be a big challenge. They don't want the contestants to have a false sense of confidence. The contestants head to the gym as Bob and gym strategize. Jillian explains that when your body drops a large amount of weight in a short amount of time, it goes into survival mode and your metabolism is put on hold. If they eke out bigger numbers this week, they will for sure pay in week three. Bob says he plans to go after Julio, which Jillian heartily endorses. She adds that Julio is not doing the work, and says that she wants Bob to kill him.
And kill him Bob does! Julio starts off the last chance workout by telling Bob that his legs are dead. Bob could give two shits. Liz leg presses Jillian as Bob delivers Julio the beating of his life. Jillian then plays tug-o-war with Rudy, which is hilarious. Bob explains that it's Bob and Jillian against everyone, and then joins Jillian's side of the tug-o-war. 1Rudy = 2(Bob+Jillian), and so he wins. It was pretty even for a while, though. There is yelling and screaming and sweating, and Jillian explains that beatings act like a truth serum, and everything that the contestants have been stuffing down comes flooding up like so much exercise-induced vomit. Shay, who has never been happy, wants to be happy, which entails letting go of her dead heroin-addict mom. She starts bawling, and Bob makes her say that she deserves to be happy. Shay realizes that a lot of her pounds are wounds and broken promises. I mean, she does deserve to be happy. Bob wants Shay to have these feelings, but to get strength from them rather than being thrown into chaos by them. I think she'll do it -- she seems pretty badass underneath it all.
With that, it's time for the weigh-in! After all of the multiple-pound passes they won, the contestants have to lose more than 115 pounds combined. That's just about 7 pounds each which, we are emphatically told, is no easy feat. The Pink Team is first to weigh in. Amanda goes from 244 to 240 for a loss of 4 pounds, while Rebecca goes from 261 to 255 for a loss of 6. That's 10 pounds total, which is of course under the average of what's necessary to keep everyone around for another week. It's bad news, and everyone takes it as such. The Purple Team is next, and Tracey is feeing serious pressure. She goes from 238 to 228 for a loss of 10, while Coach Mo goes from 336 to 327 for a loss of 9. Hope is alive! The remaining six teams have to lose 86 pounds total. Red Team is next. Antoine goes from 349 to 341 for a loss of 8, while Sean goes from 422 to 411 for a loss of 11. Not bad!













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