Off the Plateau and onto the Home Stretch - Celebrity Fit Club 4, Episode 7
As we enter the Castle of Reckoning for our penultimate weigh-in, Team Hot Buttered Soul (Tina Yothers, Ted Lange, Vinnie Pastore and Angie Stone) is fourteen lbs. behind the Fat Crushers (BoneCrusher, Carnie Wilson, Erika Eleniak and Nick Turturro).
The Fat Crusher’s biggest weapon, BoneCrusher, is first to the scale. His last weigh-in was 381 lbs. and his target loss was five lbs. He doesn’t quite make it, but has a respectable showing, losing four. He’s done well throughout the show, and says he wants to continue after, getting himself to his own personal target of 300 lbs. Dr. Papadopoulos challenges him on this, saying he will be healthier even lower than that. Because he made it below 400, he gets the chance to play his one-on-one basketball game with Harvey. BoneCrusher can’t quite keep up the speed, but he knocks Harvey around a bit to make up for it. Harvey wins handily but for such a big man, BoneCrusher really put in an excellent effort. His goal for the next weigh-in is five lbs.
This week’s challenge is a team triathlon relay race. One team member will swim, two will split the bike ride, and one will run. Tina and Carnie face each other swimming and Tina completes her laps first. Vinnie gets to the bike race first, but Erika is able to quickly overtake him and put BoneCrusher in the lead for his turn on the bike. Angie is also taking a turn on the bike, but this time infinitely more successful than her first attempt several weeks ago. Nick has a lead going into the foot race, and Ted is unable to make up the time. Fat Crushers are the overall winners again!
Next, we see Nick trying on Speedo-style bathing suits. I will spare you.
He weighs in next, losing two lbs. to bring him to 158 lbs. His face is really showing the loss. His final weigh-in target is three lbs.
Now Vinnie weighs in, and after weeks of no loss or weight gain, he loses an excellent seven lbs. to bring him to 248 lbs. Tina is so thrilled she runs up to the scale to hug him. He says he’s feeling great and full of energy. That’s awesome! I was starting to lose faith in his commitment, but hopefully the physical benefits he’s feeling will keep him on track. Harvey gives him a Marine cap and target of four lbs.
Angie has had a real attitude adjustment in recent weeks, but her personal schedule is still a big challenge. We see her backstage at a show, and the spread of tempting and fattening catered foods she has to pass up to stick to her diet. She performs and gives a shout-out to Dr. Smith who’s in the audience at the club. (Dr. Smith is adorably goofy when he dances, by the by.) And back at the Castle, finally: success on the scale again. She loses five lbs. to bring her down to 209 lbs., and Dr. Smith’s grin at her success is just as adorably goofy as his moves. Everyone is happy to see her succeed, and Tina runs up to give a hug to another teammate. Dr. Smith talks to Angie about her sleep problems and how those affect her health. The show is going to give her a better bed to help her with that. The panel is all admiring of her transformation and along with the kudos, Harvey gives her a target of six lbs. for the final weigh-in.
Hot Buttered Soul’s team captain Tina Yothers weighs in now. Her target was four lbs., but unfortunately after weeks of stellar success, she doesn’t lose anything. She’s disappointed, but she is still in first place from a percentage body weight perspective. Erika is right behind her, with only two percentage points separating them. Tina’s confident she can come out ahead in the end. She mentions again that her mom has lost almost fifty lbs. doing the same program. Tina is thrilled with the results of the show. Her target for next week is four lbs. She’s lost an excellent 32 lbs. overall so far!
Her rival’s turn on the scale is next. Erika weighs in at 129 lbs., losing one lb. She hasn’t overtaken Tina, but she’s still in the game. She feels like she’s hit the wall a little bit, but feels positively about the entire experience and thanks the panel for all they’ve done. Her final weigh-in target is four lbs.
Carnie has not been having the same kind of success as the other two new moms on the show. Although she has claimed she’s stuck to the program for the most part, Harvey and Dr. Smith aren’t quite buying it. They stage a mock abduction and take her in a van to an undisclosed location for a lie-detector test. It appears from her answers that she has been fibbing a little bit with relation to her food intake and quite a bit more about her exercise habits. She maintains this isn’t so, but manages to keep a sense of humor about the whole thing. As ANT points out, the only lie detector that matters is the scale and sends her to weigh-in. Her target was four lbs., and she makes it! She is now at 168 lbs. She’s modified her eating and increased her exercise and the results are there. Her target for the next weigh-in is four lbs.
Last up is Ted, who didn’t need to lose anything as he’s already exceeded his goal. He’s successful at maintaining for the week, holding steady at 164 lbs. He wants to just focus on toning, but Dr. Smith pesters him into losing a few extra lbs. for the good of the team. Dr. Smith suggests six lbs., and I don’t blame Ted one bit for balking at that. He says he knows he can’t lose that much, but he will take a target of three lbs. to help the team.
Out on the giant scales, after several weeks on the losing end, Hot Buttered Soul finally overtakes the Fat Crushers for the episode’s weigh-in. They lose twelve lbs. overall to Fat Crushers’ loss of eleven lbs. Fat Crushers are still in the overall lead, with thirteen lbs. more lost than Hot Buttered Soul.
Next week is the final weigh-in, and we might be on the way to a relatively uniformly successful season for all!
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