"The Biggest Loser" sent the contestants off the ranch this week and put them to work in a full-time job at a food bank to give them a slice of what real life will be like when their days at the ranch come to an end. Funnily enough, Cheryl George, a member of the black team, had one of her best weeks, losing five pounds as opposed to her usual three. But it wasn't enough to keep her safe. The black team lost the weigh-in challenge, and said adios to the 50-year-old mom.

"I felt like it was going to be my week to go home if the black team did not win the challenge," Cheryl says. "I felt that anybody who was younger was not going to be chosen to be voted off. It would be one of the moms, and Sherry [who ended up with immunity as she had the highest percentage of weight loss on the black team] was directly related to Ashley."

Cheryl had auditioned for the "Couples" series of "The Biggest Loser" with her son Daris. The two, formerly the orange team, were separated when the teams were divided into blue and black teams, so Daris wasn't able to step in to try to save his mom.

"I think Daris will do fantastic," she says when asked about leaving him behind. "He has really matured. He does his thing and I do mine. We are not on the same exercise level. We are both working out to our own potential. He said he would be fine without me and I would be fine at home."

One of the things that Cheryl, who is down from her starting weight of 227 pounds to 164 pounds, is looking forward to is reaching her goal weight of 135 pounds and then heading out on a shopping spree! And she has a few stores in mind.

"I have never been to a Macy's. I don't even know what kind of store it is to tell you the truth. I just know that you always hear about it," says Cheryl. "I love Dillard's. Even one of the stores that is here locally in town -- Stephanie's Boutique -- the first time I went in there is when I was overweight and I moved to Ardmore [OK]. They told me they didn't have anything in that store that fit me. That blew my mind. I am new in town and that is what they told me!"

Cheryl, who has changed sizes three times since the start of her "Biggest Loser" weight-loss program and has donated her old clothes to a church program, says in the meantime, she is shopping discount stores, and even then, she is not buying a lot.

Now that she is home and back to work, she says she continues to lose, just by doing what she was taught: "I make sure that I am burning more calories than I am eating. That is the most important part. I am doing nothing different than I did on the ranch. You eat cleanly. You eat correctly and get in the exercise."

"The Biggest Loser" airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on NBC.