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There are several things to consider when you wonder how to start a biggest loser at work.
1. Choose a starting date on which everyone gets weighed that day at the office or at home. It’s important to have a start date so that you have a basemark to use in the calculations. It’s also good for buzz because people will be talking about it that day and the days leading up to it. You could consider recording the numbers on a chart that the weight loss competitor gets to hold onto. Oh, wait, NO DON’T DO THAT!!! Remember that on weight loss wars, the stats for each person competing are recorded easily, quickly, and privately online.
2. Next choose whether you’ll be requiring weekly weigh-ins or just a single grand-slam weigh-in on the final day. Now, you might be tempted to choose one single weigh-in on the final day because you don’t want all the hassle of reminding people and getting their weights, but once again, remember that on weightlosswars.com you don’t have to worry about that. Additionally, weight loss wars competitions have a feature allowing the administrator of the biggest loser at work to email everyone in the competition with just a single click.
3. Choose a final date for the end of the biggest loser competition. Make sure that the competition goes for an amount of time that gives the weight loss contestants to make real progress in chipping away at their weight, but don’t let it drag on so long that coworkers become disinterested in the challenge. Most common lengths are 2-4 months, with 12 week biggest loser at work competitions being the most common.
4. Then of course, you’ve got to figure out what the office Biggest Loser will win as far as prizes go! A couple options to consider are that everyone from the office can put $10 or $20 into a pot and the winner wins the grand prize total of the entire pot. You could also do it as a wager like everyone chips in to buy the winner a massage, a gym pass, etc. Once again, weight loss wars’ features come to the rescue by allowing you to specify and track prize pot money while retaining complete control over the prize money (because weight loss wars does not accept nor handle the actual cash involved in the competition.) For distributed workforces that are located at more than one office, you might consider using paypal to handle prize money.
5. Remember that it doesn't matter how many pounds each weight loss warrior loses — it's more about the percentage of body weight lost compared to the starting weight. You’ll find that even though it’s a competition, people will trash talk all day long, but when it comes right down to it, people will encourage each other, support, and motivate each other to eat healthier. You may also notice a significant decrease in the 3 p.m. runs to the doughnut shop! Some of the skinniest people in the office may find themselves all the sudden all alone on these convenience storeand doughnut store runs! You’ll notice the strangest things like people spontaneously assembling into groups to work out during lunch or groups of walkers taking to the sidewalks around the office on lunch breaks.
Remember that weight loss is aided immensely by a little healthy competition! This can be just what you need to help you ditch old habits and get sparked onto the path that brings you back much closer to the weight you had in high school!
Peter Maughan, a graduate of Brigham Young University, is a weight loss expert with over 7 years experience in workplace health and wellness and university settings. Recently he became certified in adult weight management. His internet presence addresses important weight loss issues such as motivation, weight management, and taking those crucial first steps that lead to success in weight loss. He is the owner of Weight Loss Wars, which is the largest weight loss competition company in the nation with over 120,000 weight loss competitors.
