681 Pounds Lighter

We kicked off yesterday's closing celebration with a video of images from the team challenges set to the tune of Proud, the theme song from the Biggest Loser. We had a lot to be proud of and celebrate. Our 95 Biggest Loser participants lost an average of 7.2 pounds.

25 (29 unofficial)* participants lost more than 10 lbs; of those

• 14 (17 unofficial) participants lost more than 15 lbs
• 3 participants lost more than 20 lbs
• 1 participant lost more than 30 lbs

Our winning male lost 7.7% of his weight and our winning female lost 12.5% of her weight. The Healthy Divas, the team that came out on top, lost 122 pounds between 8 people for a total weight loss of 7.7%.

During the celebration we passed out participant reports from the final screenings and people were proudly showing me that their cholesterol had dropped 40 and 50 points. We are still compiling all the biometric data and we're conducting a closing survey with the particpants, so stay tuned for lots more good information to come.

*We have both "official" records that were kept by Lifeworks Strategies and "unofficial" records that the particpants self reported weekly. Unfortunately, we had some people that did not complete the final screening, so that creates a bit of a discrepancy.