Oh, it’s ON…

Sara found a nifty article in the NYT last week that got my colleague Jeff and I thinking. A good number of people in the office are carrying a bit too much winter weight that we could really stand to lose, so why not set up our own office weight loss pool?

After a few tasteless and combative emails were thrown around we came up with a set of rules and a list of participants.

We’ve got 12 people in, at $50 each for a grand prize of $600, winner take all. The person who has lost the greatest percentage by the end of 8 weeks wins. It doesn’t matter how you get there.

We had our official first weigh in yesterday at noon. Our 12 members tip the scales at a combines 2267.8 lbs. The highest approx BMI in the group was 30.8, so while no one is grotesquely obese, there’s lots of weight to be lost. I’ll be sure to update on our progress.

As for my porky self, I figure i’ve got about 20-25lbs to lose. Shocking, i know, but too much warcraft and computers and cadbury mini-eggs have made me chubbsy. Sara and I are trying to be pretty hardcore for the next 8 weeks so that we can then relax into a holding pattern. No sweets, pop, fat or flavour and lots of working out. Now that its light in the morning its less arduous and painful to get up for a pre-work sweat-fest, so we’ll see how this goes.

Oh, and we’ve also done the before photos, so we’ll see what i can get out of the after ones in 2 long, effort filled months.

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