Week 1

Gainesville, Florida Biggest Losers!

I am so excited to announce that a pretty big group of us is setting healthy goals for 2013!  And I'm so excited to blog about it!

All of us work for Fagen, Inc.  All of us work very long hours.  We have stressful jobs.  We work hard and a lot of us work away from friends and family.  Being away from the people that care about us the most is one of the hardest things we have to do.  We have banned together to lose weight together and I think some of us will the most successful we've ever been because we have a support group.

The office was just buzzing today with everyone talking about eating better and smarter, people sharing recipes, talking about working out and getting more sleep.  It was really exciting.  It was also exciting because people were talking about other things besides work.

We can all blame our weight gain on work, stress, being homesick, being to tired, having a health issues, eating Kit Kats or drinking too much beer. Each one of us has our issues but we are all ready to be successful.  All of us each have a reason for wanting to lose the weight.  I'm interested as I hope you are to why each person wants to lose the weight and I'm very interested in seeing how everyone progresses over the weeks!

We are starting an 8 week journey.  It started today.  All of us are doing something different and have our own ideas on how to lose weight.  Some of us will lose it really fast, some of us will lose it very slow.  But in the long run if we all get more healthy, that is all that matters!

Each week I will post the total weight of the whole group.  I will post a picture of each participant and how much they lost/gained that week.  This week with every one's pics I will list their short term goal for the 8 weeks and how they plan to lose their weight.

A long with this challenge everyone chipped in $20.00.  The "biggest loser" at the end of 8 weeks gets all the money.  He/She will also be the featured story on this blog at the end of 8 weeks!

(note:  not all people wanted pics of themselves and not all 14 paid money.  A couple are just in to support their friends/spouses)

Week 1 Stats - - - - 01-07-2013
TOTAL WEIGHT OF THE GROUP:  2675.5lbs
TOTAL PEOPLE WEIGHING IN:  14

I have to wait until tomorrow to get the pics posted because I have everyone's goals and methods of losing weight on a notepad at work!