When it comes to how to hold your own weight loss challenge at work, the hardest part is going to be planning everything out. It can seem overwhelming at first, but hopefully the guidelines below will help you plan your own weight loss challenge at work that is every bit as exciting as watching The Biggest Loser.
Choose A Setting For Your Workplace Weight Loss Challenge
Decide on a regular meeting place and choose an “official” scale. This could be a break room, someone’s house, or a public meeting room. The main thing it keep in mind is that when you are running a workplace weight loss challenge, you do everything you can to reduce the possibility of cheating. The best way to do this is to have one specific scale that everyone uses for every weigh-in. This eliminates not only the possibility of tampering, but takes the possibility of finicky scales out of the equation.
A Competition Can Help Motivate Everyone
Decide How The Weight Loss Will Be Measured
On The Biggest Loser, the winner each week is determined by what percentage of each contestant’s body weight is lost. This is the best way to proceed, as it levels the playing field for players of different sizes. Decide ahead of time how many weeks your competition will run, and use the highest percentage of body weight lost from beginning to end to determine the winner.
Determine What The Prizes Will Be
Set the stakes. At the first meeting when you do the initial weigh-in, have everyone pay in $10 or so to contribute to the final prize. Every week, have everyone pay in an additional $5 so that the stakes build and the jackpot grows with each consecutive weigh-in. To keep the competition fresh and exciting, you could exempt the week’s “biggest loser” from having to pay in that week. You could say that the winner at the end of the competition wins 75% of the final pot, and the second place winner receives 25%.
Choose an objective party to serve as treasurer and hold on to the money, preferably someone who is not actually taking part in the competition. You will also want to keep detailed records as to who paid what and when, and always give receipts when a payment is made.
Challenges
Every week, you may want to hold a physical challenge as part of your meeting. This could be anything from a foot race to who can ride the farthest on a stationary bike in a predetermined about of time. Just be sure to take care to not overdo it, especially if anyone is going into the competition with any serious medical problems.
The stakes could run anywhere from simple bragging rights to prizes or even part of the money paid into the pot that week. Just use your imagination and be creative.
Eliminations
Even though The Biggest Loser has an elimination every week to whittle down the field of competitors and increase drama, using a similar model is likely to be a mistake when it comes to less formal challenges that do not have stakes as high. For an informal competition such as this, it is easier for everyone to maintain their motivation if everyone has a chance of winning the prize all the way to the end of the competition.
Potential Problems
Understand that the entire group is not always going to be able to get together every week for the weigh-in. In this case, the absent person can weigh in the following week on the official scale, but is not eligible to be the week’s biggest loser because they did not weigh in on the official scale the previous week.
When figuring out how to hold your own weight loss challenge at work, the best way to avoid potential problems and ensure that everyone has fun is to plan out as much as possible ahead of time. Work out the rules, times, and everything else as a group and not only will you all lose weight and become healthier, but you will have a fun, exciting time doing it.
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