Okay, here is another guest blogger on this week's Biggest Loser recap! Here is Jonathan Sheehan again.

SPOILER ALERT:If you read to the end, you may know who went home last night.

"The episode starts with the teams being broken up and now everybody is on their own.

They have a challenge where the contestants have to get people to come to a group workout and whoever gets the most to come wins, the contestants give the people stickers to prove that they invited them.  Liz ends up winning and Jillian yells at the people while they workout (apparently this is an encouraging practice). 

At the weigh in this week they’ve changed the format.  The two people who have lost the smallest percentage of weight will be up for elimination, and everybody will be voting as opposed to each team voting for their teammate.  Rudy loses less than ten pounds for the first time (he lost 9 this week….still really impressive) and Amanda loses 7 which is a new high for her.  For a long time it looks like it will be Shay and Tracey up for elimination, but Liz ends up losing less than Shay so her and Tracey are up for elimination.

Everyone has some pretty negative comments to say about both Liz and Tracey during the voting.  Shay says that Liz doesn’t act like she wants to be here (I imagine that would create an uncomfortable situation if she doesn’t get eliminated).  Ultimately Tracey ends up being eliminated (I wonder who they’ll make out to be the bad guy now). 

When they show her afterwards she looks really good and runs the mile she passed out on the first day of the season, this time with her family there……nice.          

It looks like next week 2 people are getting eliminated……"

What did YOU think of last night's episode?

Hope is not lost if you are a middle-aged woman and are hoping to lose weight.

Sure, you may be thinking it would be easier if you were younger and had more energy/time to work on losing weight.

But new evidence suggests it is still possible for you to drop your extra baggage at the door.

Research was presented at the annual Obesity Society meeting that suggests that if a middle-aged woman is committed, she can lose the weight.

Three main tips were provided in the research:

1.) Write down you eat

2.) Prepare your foods at home instead of eating out

and

3.) Make weight loss a priority.

These are three things you can do if you're hoping to lose weight at any age.

Based on these three things, the results were as follows, according to the article linked below.

"The researchers recruited 439 overweight or obese postmenopausal women, average age 57, average weight 185, all of them sedentary. They were assigned to one of four groups: diet only, exercise only, diet and exercise, or no lifestyle changes.

After a year, the diet-and-exercise group had lost about 21 pounds; the diet-only group 18 pounds; and the exercise-only group almost 5 pounds. The control group did not lose a significant amount."

What do YOU think? Is losing weight easier when you're younger?

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/health/1861040,CST-NWS-health03.article