During week two of The Biggest Loser, the families were hard at work trying to lose the pounds, perform well, and eat right in order to keep themselves running on this season's competitive treadmill. Since he was excluded from the challenges, father Tom Desrocher was left to watch his son L.T. hit the weight room harder at night and pick up some of the slack for their team. When it was all said and done after week two of The Biggest Loser Families, Massachusetts father and son team Tom Desrocher and L.T. were the second team to be eliminated from the show after failing to make the poundage grade.

The next morning after being eliminated, we spoke to Tom and L.T. about how they approached the show, the lifestyle changes they had to make, and how they plan to change their eating habits so they lead a healthier lifestyle in the future.

THE DEADBOLT: What was the biggest myth or misconception you had about diet and exercise before signing up?

L.T.: For me it was different. I was an athlete in high school, so I played high school football and I played a little men’s football. So I always knew how to train and condition. I always knew how to lift. But as for the diet part of it, that was the overwhelming thing for me. When I went out to Biggest Loser I didn’t know how to eat. I didn’t know how to count calories and things like that. I never really knew that was important. So for me that was actually misleading because when you read about all of these diets, you read all of these things and they tell you one thing and it works for a month and all of a sudden you forget about the diet and put weight back on. I mean learning it in real life, it has to be a lifestyle change. It was a thing I didn’t understand until it was brought to my attention when we got selected to be on the show.

THE DEADBOLT: After getting eliminated, how hard was it maintaining the healthy lifestyle at home?

L.T.: After getting eliminated, it was tough when we came back home because you’re not back on the ranch anymore. So you don’t have any temptations on the ranch. But once you get back home you kind of have all of the temptations come right back to the surface, especially being there for only two weeks. You come back and you go back into a lifestyle that was unhealthy. I mean, you don’t have the alcohol. Like for me, all of my friends drink, they go out to eat every night. You know what I mean? So to go back to that lifestyle, it was kind of tough to go out with them and say, 'No, I’m not going to eat this,' and make a better choice or 'No, I’m not drinking anymore,' when I used to drink all of the time. And you didn’t have that out on the ranch. Out on the ranch it was nothing but healthy food, you’re surrounded by nothing. You couldn’t use different things. All you had to do was eat right, pay attention to what you’re doing, and work out. It was like just a lifestyle thing. So coming back and incorporating that back into a lifestyle was a tough transition. But after the first couple of weeks it kind of just rolled right off of my shoulder and fell into place.

THE DEADBOLT: How tough was that slip and slide challenge for you?

L.T.: It was half-tough and it was half-easy. I mean you slid down about two hundred yards, so that wasn’t the tough part. I mean I had to do it myself. I had to do double what everyone else was doing, as did Colleen. And the prize of getting the call home wasn’t too important to me. And like I said, it was only a week in so I really wasn’t homesick. I didn’t miss anyone at home really. So I did it a few times but I pulled a muscle in my hip and it was like I’m not going to try doing it and harm myself and risk going home sorer than I have to. So I just said, 'I gotta stop here before I do something I regret.' I mean it was tough climbing back up, but what are you gonna do?

THE DEADBOLT: I know when most people quit smoking they start to eat more. How did you avoid that?

L.T.: It’s tough. For me, like I said, I knew how I could train before, like I was in high school and I lifted and I ran. I knew I could run two or three miles and not bother me. And then actually seeing what the smoking did to me - I was a smoker for three or four years. While I was out at the ranch and Jillian was kicking my ass the first couple of days, it was like, ‘Wow, this thing really screwed up my body.’ And I thought about it and then I kind of never had no cravings to do it. It didn’t make me want to eat, it was just something in my head, just to reach that whole process about smoking. I mean for me it just never occurred to start eating, plus I was in the gym and having the crazy change in my diet. I mean... I’m going to say that the thought of smoking wasn’t even in the top ten of my list anymore. It was all about what to eat, how to count the calories, things like that. So I had more things in my priorities list than the smokes. So I think that helped a lot, too.

Other Conference Call Highlights:

L.T. on the orange team double crossing them:

"Actually, me and my dad knew that if we ever fell below the line we really couldn’t count on anybody. I mean we would’ve liked to have the favor returned to us but we had to keep it in ours and we kept reassuring, even when we got voted off, that 'Yeah, it sucked that they voted us off but it was a game and it’s nothing personal.' Business and pleasure are two different things, so they did what they had to do to stick around. And as much as it sucks, they voted us off and didn’t keep their word it’s part of the game. Just like in football, you can’t trust anybody on the other side. So they did what they had to do and they made their decision."

Tom Desrochers on how it feels to be gone so quick and what played into that:

"Pretty bluntly, it sucks to be gone so early. But there’s really nothing we could do. I feel that L.T. and myself worked extremely hard and the numbers just didn’t fall in our favor. You can only do so much and I know for myself I did as much as I could. L.T. was at the gym most nights until one o’clock in the morning, so he worked extremely hard. And I don’t know really what happened, but it just didn’t work."

Tom on how the experience has had a positive impact on the entire family:

"It has changed incredibly for my family because now I’ve learned what is good and not. So good when it comes to simple things like eating pasta, I get whole wheat and stuff like that, and more fruits and vegetables to snack on versus potato chips and ice cream and stuff. So being the provider for the house, and I’m the one who goes out and does the shopping with my wife, I can buy the stuff I’m supposed to be buying now and the kids and my wife are eating healthy. My wife, she’s lost twenty seven pounds also, so it’s really affecting the family. It’s actually a great thing."

Tom Desrochers on why he was excluded from competing in the challenges:

"To be honest with you, I really don’t know what it was. It was something about the blood cells. It was the red blood cells. I guess you’re supposed to have so many of them or something and I had too little or too many. I forget which one it was, but they said because my blood cell count wasn’t correct. It would be a risk foe me to do the challenge. So Dr. Huizenga , the doctor that oversees the whole show, he wouldn’t medically clear me to do the challenge, he said, until my blood got correct."