My mom, my sisters Rachael, Francie, Lori and myself have made a bet with each other that could end up costing me a hundred bucks. Whoever looses the most weight in percentage by the 4th of July gets a hundred bucks from each of us. Adam must have a lot of faith in me, he keeps asking me what I'm going to do with all that money. Apparently he doesn't know me that well; granted we've only been married less than a year (I don't diet/exercise very consistently). Thankfully though, my lack of direction forced me to run longer than anticipated. I've lived here almost a year and I got lost less than 6 miles from my house. I knew the general direction that home was, but I couldn't find a street that would take me there. Every time I ran down a street, it dead ended or looped around. For you big athletes, six miles might not seem like a lot, but it is when you've only jogged up to 3 miles at a time, a couple of times a week, for only a few weeks in the past couple of years.
Along with my lack of directions, I'm math challenged. I had to try the numbers several ways and then confirm with Adam the correct way to calculate weight loss percentage. Here's what we came up with: [1-(new wt/old wt.)].
I'm not sure what my chances are, but now I'm curious, so I'm done here for now so that I can spend some time with Excel to figure that out. Hope everyone is doing good, because that is ultimately the goal; the money just makes it easier to get there.
Here's how I'm keeping track of everything: www.sparkpeople.com
If you check it out, make sure you block them in your email address, they like to send frequent reminders.
Showing posts with label weight loss goals. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
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