After getting a lesson in physical maintenance from former NFL stars Jerry Rice and Steve Young in week ten of The Biggest Loser Families, the remaining contestants got to hang out with Tyra banks and go shopping at Macy's in New York City. But when the competition got back down to business, Dallas, Texas event manager Renee Wilson had an even bigger challenge ahead of her, as the race for the top $250,000 dollar prize and the title of The Biggest Loser got even tighter. As week eleven came to a close and the votes were counted, Renee had to finally say goodbye to her daughter Michelle after their collective experience on the show brought them closer together for the first time in years.

The morning after week eleven, we hopped on the phone scales with Renee to find out how she feels about life post-Biggest Loser and what's in store for her future now that she and Michelle have started a new chapter in their lives.

THE DEADBOLT: Are you still feeling proud of the woman you are today?

RENEE WILSON: I’m so feeling proud of the woman I am today, definitely. I feel like I made this huge change in my life. And being prideful, I used to think of as a bad thing. I would think about it in a negative light and I would think you shouldn’t be prideful, that’s just not good. But now I look at it as being proud of the accomplishments I’ve made and I think it’s made me a different woman. I feel confident. I feel like I have something to share with people. I feel like I can help you, you know? I want to pay it forward. I want to be able to help people along the way. I mean my co-workers here, they’ve been inspired. They’ve lost like 30 pounds since I’ve come home and it’s just been an awesome feeling for me. I’m just so excited to be a part of it.

THE DEADBOLT: So is that what got you into motivational speaking, or is that something you always wanted to do?

RENEE: I promise, I never wanted to do that [laughs]. I always wanted to be the background person, the person in the back making it happen. But I feel like I just have a lot to share and I feel like there’s a lot of women who, number one, maybe have a broken relationship with their children and I have the position of "don’t give up," you know, keep on pressing through and things will change. And my other thought is for women over forty, because I am a woman over forty. Just because you’re over forty doesn’t mean your life is over, you’re never going to get thin, or you’re never going to be the person you wanted to be, and you can change your life today. But you just got to make a change, you’ve got to do it. You can’t just say you wish you’re going to do it, you want to do it. You've got to put action to those words.

THE DEADBOLT: I like the show because it proves that you don’t have to go in and get elective surgery.

RENEE: Exactly. Well, right before the show I was planning to do that. I was planning on getting gastric bypass surgery because I just didn’t know what to do anymore. And that same night Michelle called me and asked if I’d like to try out with her to be on the show. So I was like, ‘Wow! God, is that you?’ [laughs]

THE DEADBOLT: What’s your relationship with Michelle like now?

RENEE: Oh, it is like 360 degrees from what it was on day one on the show, I think. It’s amazing. I look back to a year ago, we had just begun speaking about a year ago, and I remember I was just so excited to be able to talk to her every now and then. And now we call each other every day, we text each other every day, she comes over to me house - Our lives are just so much richer for having each other in it.

THE DEADBOLT: Are you going to keep the hair short or...?

RENEE: I am, for now anyway. We’ll see.

THE DEADBOLT: What did you pick up at Macy’s?

RENEE: I got clothes, because obviously I had none that fit me. [laughs] When I came home, everything in my closet, I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, nothing in here fits me.’ You know, fun things to wear - dresses, shoes, everything. I think even my feet got smaller.

THE DEADBOLT: What are your thoughts on Jillian’s style of training?

RENEE: It is very harsh, no doubt. But coming into the show, I would look at the show as a viewer and think if I was on the show I would want Bob, because Bob would be my friend, he dresses cute, he looks fun, he’s kind hearted. But in my heart I thought I need someone like Jillian - in my face and who’s not going to let me slack off. I don’t need someone to be my friend, I need someone to push me to the next level, and that’s the kind of trainer that Jillian is. And because of that, she pushed me to places I thought I could never [go]... And what was great about Jillian, I think, is that she would tell us that we already had it in us, we just needed somebody to help us find it. You know what I mean? It wasn’t her, it was in us the whole time, she just helped us find it.

THE DEADBOLT: You mentioned that your husband works out all of the time. So I’m curious about what you were doing while he was at the gym, or if he got mad that you wouldn’t go?

RENEE: [laughs] I would say probably the last six months before the show my husband had bought me a gym membership and when he’d leave I’d be like, ‘Okay, I’ll see you in a few hours. I’ll make dinner or something.’ He wasn’t getting mad, but I noticed that he would say more and more things in that last six months like, ‘Come on, babe, you said you were going to go.’ And I’d be like, ‘Yeah, I am, but I’m really busy this week. I’m going to go next week.’ And now our marriage is so much better. I mean, we go work out together, he trains me on the weekend, we go run, we take our dogs running. It’s just totally different. It’s made our marriage go to another level.

THE DEADBOLT: Out of those left, who do you think has the best shot?

RENEE: [laughs] Michelle, of course. She looks amazing and I think America is going to be blown away when they see her.