FFN Biggest Loser Challenge!!!!

For those of you who have responded to my forum "top five issues facing ff's," you have seen that ff fitness is one of the issues that alot of ff's are thinking about. The sad thing is... its true!!!! While attending FDIC this year, I saw more overweight people then I ever wanted to. I'm talking a hostess shop could have opened and sold out in five minutes!!!! Okay... so maybe that last part isnt true but the point is we as ff's face a dangerous, physically demanding job on a daily basis and for some, the most exercise we get is walking from the bunk room to the kitchen table. Okay... enough rambling... what are we going to do about it? Well I cant make you get on the treadmill but I have an idea that I hope will inspire. FFN Biggest Loser Challenge!!!! Wait... is that copyrighted? Oh well... is copyrighted even a word? lol. Okay so heres how it works... Use this blog page to post your starting weight. Come back as often as you like to post your progress. After six months we declare a winner. What do I win you ask???? How bout a healther life and a new body to show off. (Unless the webchief feels like pitching in some cabbage for a shiny new car or something lol.) I can hear it already. "what about you dustin??? are you going to be in the contest too???" As a matter of fact I am!!!! I may not need to lose a whole lot of weight but anyone can always be healther. So... here goes... just got on the scale. My starting weight is 178. One problem I do have is high BP so I'm gona track that too and see if I can bring it down. Starting BP (damn... taking your own bp is not easy lol)... 158/98. Yeah, I told you it was high lol.

Dont be afraid to join the group "fitness for Emergency Services." Theres alot of good people with alot of good ideas there that can help you get started. Also, there is a ton of information online that you can find about losing weight properly and eating healthy so check it out!!! Okay kids... lets get started!!!

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Comment by Daniel Jacobs on May 28, 2009 at 9:55am: My starting weight at the first of this year was 220.5. I am down to 193 as of this morning. I have changed my eating habits...smaller portions, less carbs, higher protein as well as circuit training at least 3 times a week along with running a mile or 2 per day.

Comment by Kimberly Robinson on May 28, 2009 at 9:54am: Oh, OKAY.....I was waiting for something like this to get arranged at my 'house and since they stare at me blankly when I suggest it, I GUESS I'll do it with YOU GUYS.
As for my starting weight; I'll have to get on my hands and knees and pull my scale out from under the bed where the cat shoved it. Suffice it to say, my BP is higher than yours (three up and three down isn't just the end of an inning; it also gets you deferred when you try and give blood.)

As for tools, I suggest to anyone who is interested that they check out 'Sparkpeople'...(www.sparkpeople.com) its free and its a vast and mind-boggling array of tracking tools and social networking to help you/us with this challenge.

I promise to post the ugly truth vis a vis my weight as soon as I get the scale. Why did the cat push it under there? Seriously.