Jan 12: Let the Games Begin!

My brother Frank and I decided to challenge each other to lose weight. Our goal is drop 10% of our current weight by losing 1-2 lbs each week. We are trying to do it right and not get into any crash diets or unusual weight loss plans, so hopefully this will work. I am starting the contest at 188.4lbs, so I have 18.8lbs to lose. Frank has to lose 21.5 lbs, so do the math to figure out where he's starting.

I thought it would be cool to actually track our contest on a blog. Might be interesting to see how things progress (or digress). Since I'm used to being extremely skinny (135lbs when I graduated high school), I am unaccustomed to "dieting." This will be something new for me.

Rules of the Challenge

• The first weigh-in is Monday, January 12, 2009
• The first week ends on Sunday morning, January 18, 2009
• All future weigh-ins will be tracked from each week's Sunday morning weigh-in
• Your ending weight must be less than 1.0 lbs from your last weigh-in
• Additional weight lost in one week does not carry over into future weeks
• If you have lost less than 1.0 lbs for the week, you must mail $20 to the challenger
• If you miss a weigh-in, you must mail $20 to the challenger
• If you reach your target and do not want to lose any more weight, you must maintain your weight within 3 lbs each week.
• The person to reach his weight loss target first pays the other challenger $100.

Wish me luck! I'm actually starting the contest with a problem. My weight the previous day was 191.6 lbs, so I lost 3.2 lbs overnight. I'm positive that weight loss was water weight, so that will be coming back before my day is over. That means that I technically need to lose 4.2 lbs this week. Great!