Today's blog post on stumptuous.com says York University in Canada is looking for successful weight losers who’ve lost a significant amount of weight and kept it off for more than 1 year.

This is a copy-and-paste of the announcement:
Study Participants Needed
Are you currently at a healthy weight?
Were you previously overweight and have intentionally lost a large amount of weight and have maintained this weight loss for at least 1 year?
If you answered “yes” to the two questions above, you may be eligible to participate in a genetics and psychology research study at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in collaboration with York University.
We are looking for both men and women:

• Age 25 – 45 years
• In good physical health, not using street drugs
• No psychiatric disorders
• Able and willing to provide meaningful consent to participate

This study will require about 3 hours of your time to answer questionnaires, perform some simple computer tasks and provide a blood sample for genetic testing.
You will be compensated for your participation.
For more information call:
Caroline Reid at 416-535-8501 ext. 4639
or email [email protected]
ALL QUERIES ARE STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

Dang! I'm too old! But good to know that some attention is being paid to maintainers. Thanks for posting the info, CJ!

And isn't stumptuous the best site??

Well DANG it here, TOO! I'm too YOUNG!

Shane, if we got put together, we'd average out to the right age -- and be one heck of a maintainer.

We need to pretend we are conjoined twins!

Hmmm.... I'm in the right age bracket, do I count as losing a 'large amount' of weight I wonder?

I sent Ms. Reid an email and got a response back fairly quickly. My amount of loss does qualify, but the study requires one appointment in Toronto, Ontario. Hmm.

I sent off an email!

She responded! Woops - requires a visit to Toronto! Damn, would love to participate!

Doh, somehow I missed Shannon's last post! ha She must have been writing it while I was emailing!

LOL. And here I am, an hour from Toronto, but I doubt my one day of maintenance qualifies. Haha!

hmmm... a trip to scenic Toronto wouldn't be bad.

Wonder if they'd accept me and just count my results as TWO participants, LOL.






[Naturally, double remuneration would be fair.]

Well I'd qualify for a few more months. I'll be 46 in November. Though lots of people think I LOOK younger - does that count ?

I guess I won't bother emailing, since that trip to Toronto is required. Oh well.

Hey, do they pay for that trip to Toronto? Or do you have to pay yourself? Because I would totally go for a free trip to Toronto but I don't really want to pay for plane tickets or drive 8 hours...

Although at my current weight I'm arguably not at a "healthy weight" if they are going by BMI, I'm 1lb too heavy.

Ditto! If they paid for the trip I'd be very interested - we could all go at the same time and have a maintainers reunion (or meet & greet) trip! Darn.