I'll keep this short. Did you notice how the participants were chided for not exercising enough on their road trip? And how even though they relaxed and had fun and did not kill themselves exercising, they lost more weight than the week before when exercise was their full time job?
That says something important. Exercise, regular exercise, promotes weight loss. But if you're taking a break and eating well, once in awhile, you can still lose weight.
The numbers will almost never exactly correlate.
I thought it was great that the contestants took some time to learn how to relax. And I was disappointed that none of the processing the trainers did about the trip discussed the positives of the trip. What was learned, what new habits were continued. They did make a good point, that you can exercise wherever you are, and the fact that there isn't a gym is no excuse to not be active.
But it seemed to me that not adopting a proactive approach, showing the participants how to do that, was a lost educational opportunity.