That is so discouraging! At the last place I worked there was a similar competition and if you didn't have 20+ lbs to lose you were pretty unwelcome. What a weird phenomena.

Best of luck to you with your own (valid) weight loss goals.

As an adult I get people saying I don't need to lose weight because they see how thin my legs are. When I was 20 lb heavier than I am i wore stuff that hid the top part of my belly. They still said I needed to gain weight then too. Go figure. I was concidered over weight according the the weight and measures. So I lost any way. I am 5'2" and weigh 113. I have saddle bags still because I am very small boned. People I think are more crewl to the close to their normal weight people then to heavy people. If you are heavy stranger mock you when you are normal weight your friends are mean.

Yes! We are having one here at my work. Any time I mentioned that I was thinking of it I got "why?" Just because I am not overweight, doesn't mean I don't have my own personal goals. But in the end I didn't join. Probably for the best because I have only lost 2lbs since then and who knows it might be back tomorrow so it would have been a waste of money but maybe it would have been more motivation.

We did the same at my work but we did it by percentage of weight lost. Just for the reason that each of us had different amounts to lose.