In week two the skinny chicks rule, the integrity of the official scale comes into question and one of last week’s champions falls to an abdominal injury.
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The highest-percentage-weight-lost award goes to Kristy Andersen. Just like the wealthy are often the best savers it appears Kristy knows how to peel the pounds with a loss of 1.75%. She was followed closely by a pack of not-so-skinny-chicks: Kevin Phipps at 1.53%, Jeremy Peters at 1.43%, Mark Henderson at 1.30% and Jeff Hanson at 1.25%.
Overall many found this week to be a challenge while staying even or slightly gaining. A grand total of 11.5 pounds were lost this week compared to 62.5 pounds last week. Based on my home scale I personally believe the official scale is weighing two pounds heavier than when the contest began. As they say, this weight loss thing is a marathon, not a sprint.
Last week’s pedometer champion, John Pohlman, set the standard for everyone at 10,000 steps per day. This week John says he felt like “the mechanical rabbit at the greyhound races” as the Big Losers relentlessly stalked him. The Judge cranked out 17,000 steps on Wednesday with a Stairmaster/basketball combo. Melody Morton turned in 20,000 steps on Saturday, 14,000 on Sunday and a total of 87,263 for the week. Now that’s a smack down. The Pohlman-Morton grudge match is alive and well. Hanson may have trouble keeping up due to an abdominal injury. Details are sketchy but in layman’s terms I think he may have “blown a gasket.” Surgery may be imminent.
Four more contestants exceeded the standard of 10,000 steps per day this week. They are, in order of most steps to least: Pohlman, The Judge, Jeremy Peters and Kristy. Total recorded steps for all contestants rose to 710,873 compared to last week’s 678,266.
Reset your pedometers and let the week three contest begin.
-The Judge
