Office Biggest Loser Ideas

I, too, am heading up an office Biggest Loser group myself next week. Outside of recording everyone's weigh-ins, I'm sending out an email every week on weight loss advice to help my team to victory. I personally do a low-carb diet, but I have to be mindful that not everyone is necessarily understanding of this advice, so I have to keep it high-level enough that it applies to anyone trying to lose weight regardless of dietary approach.

I think my first email will talk about the value of feedback beyond the scale weight. More specifically, taking a before picture, using a body fat percentage machine, taking measurements, different blood tests as part of a physical, and of course, MFP! In fact, I might do another email explaining MFP to the uninitiated--it's a great weight loss tool in many ways. Anyway, from the scale alone, it's almost impossible to assess to what extent one is losing body fat to lose weight vs. losing muscle mass and water. Some people don't care how they lose weight as long as the scale number goes down, but it makes a big difference if you're also trying to recompose your body versus simply becoming a smaller version of whatever figure you have.

I'm looking forward to reading some other ideas on this.

Focus on fitness and body competition rather than "pounds lost".

How about ......steps walked per day/week and have everyone wear pedometers
most days in a row exercising
counting vegie servings
healthy recipe of the week