Still on the island
 

At work they do this thing called Survivor Island - you choose a partner, pay $10 and weigh in once per week. The team has to lose a total of 1 pound per week to stay on the island. We are in week 9 of a 10 week competition. At the end whoever is still on the island and has lost the most weight (percentage wise) wins $100 each team member. I haven't really expected to win, but I really just wanted to be on the Island the last week.

My partner and I have been doing well, but this week I hit a plateau. I was doing everything the same as usual, but was not losing a thing. Yesterday was the weigh in and my partner weighs in and is the exact same. So I had to lose 1 LB to keep us on the island. I thought I was screwed. But, I get on the scale and YAY - lost 1.5 lbs!

So it has been 9 weeks, I've lost 21 lbs in these weeks, and we are still on the island for the final week!

Only 6 teams out of the original 21 are still left - I still don't think we'll win, but just being there is awesome!

that is awesome! Good job!

Good luck! You can do it!

Congrats! We're doing a weight loss competition at my work too, but we're not doing partners. It could be very motivating to know you have someone else depending on you but I could see people getting snippy with their partners. Do you think this has caused any hard feelings among any of your coworkers or is everyone handling it pretty well?

:woohoo:

One positive thing it has done for me is that I am extremely competitive, and it has made me feel obligated to keep up my side of the bargain, so to speak. And I can't lie - one week my partner gained 1/2 lb and this week she stayed the same and I was a bit annoyed. Fortunately I had lost enough to cover.

I know that 2 co-workers joined together and I was surprised because one is very thin to begin with. And one day the thin one came in and was like "Gosh, I hope you worked out extra hard, because I went to a birthday party this weekend and ate pizza and cake so I think I'm going to be up a couple of pounds" to her partner. And I could tell the partner was pissed. They only made it like 3 week into the competition.

Kudos to you! And to your workplace for focusing on heath in a constructive, results focused and yet fun way. Very cool!

What a fun project and congratulations!

Ok, guys, wish me luck! Tomorrow is our last weigh in. I'm feeling pretty good - I think that I'll be down at least 2 lbs this week, but it's hard to tell because the scale that I weigh in on there is a little different then my one at home. If I make it, I'll be in the running for at least a little cashola, too!

Good luck! Sounds like a fun competition!

Can't wait to find out how you did! The weekend pizza incident confirms my feelings on partnered weight loss. Especially at my work, I swear everyone thinks the act of stepping on the scale once a week will magic away all their extra fat all on it's own.

This sounds really cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best of luck to your and your partner :)

Well, good news and bad news.

I lost 3 more pounds, putting me at a total of 67 pounds this year and I lost 24 pounds the 10 weeks on the island. 2 teams were eliminated at the final weigh in and we came in 4th, so no prize money - WAHHHHHHH!

The team that came in first consisted of what I consider a fairly normal sized woman and one tall heavy woman. They worked out like crazy and lost 30% of their body weight in the 10 weeks. 30 frigging percent! That can't be terribly healthy, can it?

Congrats on losing so much this year CherryPie99!