Biggest Loser Season 8: episode two food quiz

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Gosh, I cannot believe it took me this long to watch this show. I’m hooked and love the participants. Half of the time, I just want to hug everyone. I need to buy more boxes of Kleenex because this show really touches your heart.

That said there was one great challenge tonight where the 15 participants were able to learn some basics about healthy eating.

Australian Chef Curtis Stone was the teacher for this challenge and he reviewed 7 basic healthy eating secrets that can help the Biggest Loser participants lose weight and keep the weight off when they go back home.

I’ll first start by listing the lessons and then I’ll give you the test questions Allison asked the participants.

>>> Here are the Biggest Loser’s 7 Healthy Eating Tips revealed by Chef Curtis Stone:

1) Keep your portion sizes to no more than 3-4 oz … which is the ideal size.

2) There many ways of cooking without using oil. Why not try to bake, poach, grill, broil or steam your food instead of frying it.

3) There are good fats and fats – extra virgin oil is a far superior oil to vegetable oil.

4) Salads aren’t automatically healthy because when you eat salads at a restaurant you might be ingesting a LOT of calories from the HIGH FAT Chef Curtis Stone salad dressing.

5) Replace one portion of your pasta with vegetables like zucchini to cut back on calories and still remain full.

6) Cut back on soda.

7) Snack twice per day

>>> Biggest Loser Healthy Eating Quiz

This was an interesting challenge because basically if the group was able to answer 5 questions correctly, they will get an addition 15 lbs as part of the weekly challenge (the second week’s challenge was that if the group managed to lose a total of 150 lbs no one would go one … so these 15 lbs would mean they would only have to lose 135 lbs to all remain in the game).

1) Which plate contains the correct portion size for a family of 4 (Coach Mo and Tracey picked the right plate of meat).

> Did the Biggest Loser participants get this right? Yes!

2) Which cooking method can you use to cook without oil?

> Answer: baking, poaching or steaming

> Did the Biggest Loser participants get this right? Yes!

3) Eating out – How many calories are in a chicken Caesar salad found at a typical restaurant

> Options: a) 540 calories, b) 840 calories, c) 1010 calories

> Answer: c) 1010 calories

> Did the Biggest Loser participants get this right? Yes!

4) How many calories can you cut back by replacing one serving of pasta with one serving of zucchini?

> Options: a) 110 calories, b) 248 calories, c) 343

> Answer: b) 248 calories

> Did the Biggest Loser participants get this right? Yes!

5) America loves a soda refill challenge! So how many calories are in a 16 oz soda + 3 refills?

> Options: a) 685 calories, b) 747 calories, c) 789 calories

> Answer: b) 747 calories

> Did the Biggest Loser participants get this right? No, they selected c instead of b!

6) Choose which dessert on this table that contains less than 150 calories?

> Options: a) raspberries with ½ oz of dark chocolate dipping, b) parfait and blueberries, c) vanilla ice cream

> Answer: a) raspberries with ½ oz of dark chocolate dipping

> Did the Biggest Loser participants get this right? No, they selected b!

7) Chef Curtis Stone gave 3 reasons why it’s important to snack? Can you give me two?

> Answer: 1) when you eat protein rich snacks, you fill fuller and 2) you have more fuel for your muscles

> Did the Biggest Loser participants get this right? Yes!

*** The Biggest Loser participants did get 5 correct questions and won this challenge! You’ll be able to listen to the rest of my findings in my video!

>>> Don’t forget you can catch the previous reviews on the Biggest Loser Season 8 here:

Video Review Biggest Loser Season 8 episode one

Biggest Loser Season 8 – first episode

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