I'm a Loser

Thanks to Donna, I'm now a loser at my work. She shared with me her work's version of Biggest Loser and I shared it with one gal in my office who just took off with it and is running one hell of a show. She rounded up 40 people that were divided up into 8 teams of 5 and tomorrow is the official start of the competition. Some teams are totally into it -- they had embroidered t-shirts with their team name, Fatbusters United (FU). Another team wrote this very creative article about the competition that appeared to have come off the Associated Press. Yet another gal responded to that article with an equally creative blurb relating all the teams and their response to the article. Some teams are seriously strategizing about how they are going to win; and yet others are in it simply because it took off the way it did and wanted to be part of the camaraderie associated with it. There's at least 5 people in the competition that are about as skinny as rails, but they wanted to partake in the fun. Some ask why I'm in it - I don't have any weight to lose. Guess what buckos, I have 10 pounds to drop according to the healthy weight charts. And maybe I'll just do it this time for a change having 40 others to compete with. And what's the prize? $70 bucks baby. We each threw in $10 and the winning team splits it all. the winners will be based on points with each team earning up to 15 points weekly on weight loss, exercise hours (that's MINE), and weekly objective which is usually weight loss or percentage of weight loss (one week is exercise -- that's MINE). I'm not really sure our team can win, but it certainly has me fired up to finally dig in and really try to drop some pounds. I'm in the "hot seat" the first week for getting the most exercise hours for our team to win the first 5 points. Do you think 24 hours of training and riding (IRONCROSS!) will be enough? Boy that hour swim and hour of stretching at the YMCA on Monday after the Ironcross will be nice... :)