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No one has the competition in the bag on this season's The Biggest Loser.
But when it comes to maintaining her body, for host Alison Sweeney it's all about the duffel.
"Fitness is not an option. It's part of my job," the Days of Our Lives actress, who guest blogs for PEOPLE.com, 35, tells Redbook magazine for the May cover story. "If I didn't bring my duffel bag with me, I wouldn't work out."
She adds: "If I go home, I know I'll get distracted."
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She's back in the saddle again.
Eliminated Biggest Loser contestant Megan Stone, who left the show on last week's episode, lost 80 lbs. on her weight-loss journey but has since gained the chance to ride her beloved horses.
"One of my huge motivators to losing all this weight is I really missed my horses," Stone, 21, said on the show. "I missed competing and I really wanted to get back to that."
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Eliminated Biggest Loser contestant Megan Stone has a new accessory to consider the next time she steps on a scale – her engagement ring.
Stone, 21, was eliminated on this week's episode, but when she returned home to Dittmer, Mo., her boyfriend Michael proposed.
"It was completely by surprise. I woke up with a dozen roses on my pillow and little love notes everywhere," Stone told reporters on Wednesday about the daylong proposal. "At the end of the day we got done working out and were getting ready to take our showers and go to bed and he said, 'Okay, Megan, I have one more surprise for you.' "
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After last week's weigh-in, 30,749 lbs. had been lost in total since The Biggest Loser began. It's quite an accomplishment, and Newman's Own helped to celebrate with the donation of that much food to Mark's local Feeding America food bank in Magnolia, Texas, because he won.
After Mark won, I let the contestants know that if they all loaded their trucks, food would be provided to all the hometowns. Despite all the issues on campus, it was a great moment to watch all the contestants work together to help so many others.
Later in the episode, Dolvett peeled back another of Jeremy's layers, this time getting him to talk about his father, his parents' divorce and his possible addiction to food. While Jeremy's childhood clearly left scars, it also made me appreciate who he is more as a person.
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After a week of surfing and swimming in Hawaii, Kim Stone and her daughter Megan were both up for elimination on The Biggest Loser. And then Kim sacrificed herself to save her daughter's place on the Ranch.
"As a parent you always want what's best for your child," Stone told reporters Wednesday about her decision to go home. "It was a sacrifice I was more than willing to make."
Stone, 48, says she was within 11 lbs. of her goal weight at the time and believed her daughter had much more to benefit from remaining on the show. "I had such a good grasp on things that I knew I was going to be okay," she said. "I didn't feel I would be going home to failure."
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Aloha from Hawaii!
This season of The Biggest Loser has been incredibly intense, so taking a break from the Ranch in Hawaii could not have come at a better time. Once we landed in Hawaii, you could see renewed energy from the contestants, but they also started retreating back into their old habits of not being focused on their goal of getting in healthy.
When they met surfer Bethany Hamilton, I think each of them had an "aha" moment. Before them was a gorgeous woman, who didn't let losing an arm take her down. She found a way to continue doing what she loved and exemplifies our theme of "no excuses." After hearing Bethany talk, it was fun to watch the contestants and Dolvett learn to surf, and for the contestants to conquer another fear and realize all they had accomplished.
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Alison Sweeney is best known for hosting The Biggest Loser but now, the Days of Our Lives actress is showing off some impressive weight loss of her own.
The mother of two, who guest blogs for PEOPLE, flaunts her fit, 20 pounds-slimmer figure on the cover of Shape magazine's April issue, rocking a teeny blue two-piece.
Sweeney, 35, admits inside the issue that popcorn is the one food she'll never give up. As for other hot Hollywood figures, Sweeney admits that she can't keep her eyes off of Ryan Reynolds's body. – Dahvi Shira
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Contestants on The Biggest Loser were in for a treat this season when they were not only whisked away to Hawaii but also surprised with surf lessons from Bethany Hamilton, the pro athlete who inspired the film Soul Surfer.
"I surprised them on the beach," Hamilton, 22, tells PEOPLE of the episode that will air March 20 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. "They were super excited and maybe a little nervous, but I think they were just so stoked to be there."
"Getting up on the board was a bit of a challenge for them," adds Hamilton, who lost her arm in 2003 when she was attacked by a 14-foot shark. But once the contestants got the balancing element down, "Everyone managed to get up and ride some waves."
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For the second week in a row on The Biggest Loser, the contestants have sent home a strong competitor instead of a weak one.
"Everyone saw me as a threat," eliminated contestant Emily Joy explained in a chat with reporters Thursday, after she fell a pound short of safety at the weigh-in this week.
"I couldn't believe it," Joy said of standing on the scale. "I knew right then and there I was going home. There was no amount of fight that I could give."
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Welcome to singles!
The Biggest Loser's final nine have to believe in themselves – something they've struggled with for many years. With each twist in the game, the confidence of each contestant is tested. And they have proved to themselves over and over again that they stronger than they previously thought they were.
During this week's challenge, it was FREEZING at the ice rink! The final nine realized they were going to need to work together to reach their buzzers and get the best prize. I realized how tough the challenge really was by how long they stood there not moving! They were all working so hard to resist the others, getting any forward momentum was brutal. When Jeremy gave away his prize of shopping with a celebrity for Conda's goldfish, it proved once again that his bond with his sister is a threat and that he'd do anything for her. Love them or hate them, Jeremy and Conda are a tough team to beat.
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