Absolute Silence

I'm surprised at the lack of chatter on the blog this week. Everyone doing okay? Or perhaps everyone is upset that someone new every week ruins the weigh-in by not posting. Maybe we do need a one strike policy.

Anyway, I updated the results page to show the results so far!

Have a wonderful weekend!

CL

OK, People, let's work on being a little more prompt with our weigh-ins, shall we?

Results are in... FINALLY

UPDATE: Sorry for the confusion of the poll. The current method will show every week, so we will have a complete history of every week of the program. This means that every week the graph will get bigger and bigger, it'll be hard to compare everyone at a glance since you will have to scroll through it all. As an alternative, I can limit the graph to just show the first weigh-in (100%) and the previous two weigh-ins. On week 8, you'll see your latest weigh-in (week 8) and the previous one to compare how you did last week (week 7), and the first one (week one) to see how you've done overall. This can be done as a group or individually.

Or I can set it to have a full history of every weigh - in combined as a group (as it is now) or individually - everyone would have their own graph and it would be more of an individual event - though you could scroll through and compare each individual. Is this a little more clear?

Also, I'm doing most of this by hand, so it's fully customizable - if you'd like to see everything (or anything) posted in a different way, please make the suggestion and I'll look for a reason to say no.

Thanks!

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Thanks to the slight, uh hum, delay, the results chart was delayed 24 hours out of necessity. Don't worry though, it's been updated and it's posted. Click on the link on the top right of this page to go take a look!

Also, let me know if there's any other info you want to see. I recognize that as we continue to lose so much weight, this chart is going to grow wginormous. I have posted a new poll to the right investigating your interest in the data. Take a minute to let me know what you think!

Dance Y'alls

CL

Weighing In

Everybody: Be sure you weigh yourself at the same time of day and wearing the same thing as the first weigh-in. If you weighed yourself at night the first time and want to switch to mornings, you need to figure out how much more you weigh at night and adjust your starting weight. Or else you always need to weigh at night, especially for the final weigh-in. We need to be STRICT because there is MONEY at steak! OOPS, stake. Even so it is. Amen.

Amen to the Steak is what I say!

Accuracy

Okay now wait.

Annette and Kimi both said their weights aren't accurate. What about everyone else? We were all supposed to weigh ourselves at the same time of day, wearing the same thing, on the same scale. Did everyone do that?

Net Here: Since I'm not official, I'm not terribly worried about my inaccuracy, but I'll have Cameron change mine anyway, cause I believe my start weight should be about 2 lbs lighter. And I told Kimi to have Jorge weigh himself on her scale, then on his as soon as he got home to see if there was a big difference so we could see how accurate her weights were. But I don't know if she remembered. Kimi? Did you?

Jen: I would just like to say CONGRATS to all of you!!! Holy shamoly, you all lost...and some lost A LOT! Good job!!

Entry Fee

All entry fees of $20 must be mailed to Don Rowley by Friday, January 4. If not in the mail by this day, you will have to wait until the next Biggest Loser contest, which will be in April or May.
(Did that sound official?)

Also: This blog is now private. All authors have access, as well as the immediate Rowley family.

(this is christine adding on) Make sure you have a scale for the official first weigh-in on tuesday! And mom and kimi where are you?? I'm getting worried here, we need you!
Also, Jason was wondering if he could unofficially join us.

Welcome!

Welcome to our biggest loser blog! I sent invitations to everyone participating, inviting them to be authors. We can make this blog private if we want. On January 1 we all need to post our first weigh-in weight! We can either keep doing weigh-ins every Tuesday or we can switch to Saturdays or something. Each person should be consistent in their time of day and clothing for weighing themselves, and use the same scale. On March 31, the person who has lost the largest percentage of body weight will win the prize money of TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS! We each need to pay our $20 entry fee (to mom?) this week, which will make a hundred dollars, and dad is contributing an additional hundred dollars.
Feel free to post on here about your strategies, workouts, thoughts and ideas about losing weight. Also, add a profile on the side bar--it should include your name, starting weight, goal weight, and something else like what your strategy is or what your motivation is. Good luck to all!