Thursday, January 8, 2009

Weight Loss

I got sucked into the Biggest Loser this week. I've never really watched it before--although I've seen bits and pieces, and I like their web-page--but I thought I'd give it a try, and see what I might gain from it... anyway, I enjoyed watching it. I appreciate that at least one "reality show" is actually helping people better their lives.
Well, that was a round about way for me to start what I meant to say! I've thought a lot off and on about the fairness of our weight loss bonus points. I tried to balance it a little with the points for those who are already at ideal weight, and for those who are pregnant, but it still seems a little unfair maybe. So, I am thinking maybe we should try doing something similar to Biggest Loser. The winner is the one who loses the highest percentage of their body weight, rather than the one who loses the most. This way, it doesn't put those who need to lose more at an advantage over those who need to lose a little less. So, I think we ought to do one of two things in one of two ways. :)
We can either award weight loss by percentage of weight lost, (If you weigh 250 lbs, and you lose 10 lbs this month, your weight loss is 4%) or we can award weight loss by percentage of weight desired to be lost, lost. (If you need to lose 30 lbs total, and you lose 3 that month, your weight loss is 10%) And we can do either of those by having you do the math at home and reporting, or by everyone telling me their starting and ending weights each month. (The advantage of the first is that no one has to know your numbers, not even me, and the advantage of the second is that you don't have to do any math.)
Everyone please let me know what you think! :)

1 comment:

Kendall and Melissa said...

My opinion is that we should do it by percentage of weight desired to be lost. I think that seems the fairest. I don't mind doing the math myself so that you don't have to know my weight ;) but whatever you decide is fine. I doubt you'll make fun of me if you do need my numbers.