First, the good news: the contestants all lost a lot of weight. By week 6 of the competition, they’d lost an average of thirty pounds. By week 13, those who hadn’t been sent home had lost another thirty to forty pounds. And by the big TV finale, a homecoming of sorts at week 30, where the contestants are flown back to the ranch for a final weigh-in after four more months of self-policed dieting and exercise, the contestants had lost an average of 127 pounds.
