It started off 5 weeks ago as a bet between me and my workout partner. Both of us being fed up with working out and not seeing the results we wanted, we decided that we needed to try something different. After hearing a story from my boss about her and her husband weighing in at the gym one week, and joking that it was a contest about who could lose the most weight. I got the idea that this was something that my workout partner and I should try.
We called the contest “The biggest loser” because of the TV show with the same name and it was essentially the exact same concept. The original idea was that every Friday we would weigh in and whoever lost the most weight that week would be the winner. Then that evening the loser would have to buy the winner a drink or something else equivalent to no more that $5. Then after a four week period of the contest we would have a final weigh in and the overall biggest loser (whoever lost the most weight) would be the champion of our contest and would receive a free dinner that evening picked up by which ever one of us didn’t win.
The contest started off great. It was a fantastic motivator. I started watching what I ate by counting the calories and overall trying to say away from anything I knew wouldn’t be good for me. Like any diet I wasn’t able to stay on it 100% of the time and there were occasion where I did slip off here and there, but overall I pushed through it and I’ve kept it up.
Although now that it’s been 5 weeks since we started the contest we actually ended it after two. My workout partner started to see the results that he wanted by increasing the amount of cardio he was doing but never actually losing any weight. Now he is somewhat of a running machine.
Although I haven’t totally been able to keep up a steady schedule of cardio every week I have increased the amount of time and distance that I am able to run. Also starting this week I’ve decided that every day to throw some pushups and sit-ups into the routine and I am now slowly working on some personal goals with that. I plan on staying with the diet until I am able to reach my goal weight. Then I’m going to try and adjust it accordingly so that I will be able to maintain what I’ve worked for. I see now that the reason that I put on so much weight wasn’t because of lack of inactivity but because of poor choices I’ve made when eating.
In case your wondering here is a chart of my weight lose:
| Week 1 (start weight) | 232.4 |
| Week 2 | 227.4 |
| Week 3 | 223.3 |
| Week 4 | 221.6 |
| Week 5 | 219.6 |
| Overall | 12.8 |
Drew
Shelley
February 19, 2005
who won ? and what did you have to eat ?