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You Talkin' To Me???
What started as a friendly $50 bet to see who could lose more weight in two weeks between between Jay Thompson and Dean Ouelette, has grown into Real Estate’s Biggest Loser. Anybody can participate, all it'll cost you is $50 towards the winners charity of choice and a commitment to lose some weight.
How Do I Participate
To sign up just send me a tweet or if you don't have twitter, sign up in Jay's comment section, then sign up for a twitter account.
Weigh in on Friday, December 5. and on February 1, 2009 whoever has the largest percentage weight loss wins. Honor system rules. It's a win/win... err... lose/win for the participants and the charity!
Hey, Aren't You That Running Guy?
Yea and if I want to get faster, I've got weight to lose too. My charity is the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund. I run marathons as a civilian member of Team Semper Fi. The program was inspired by wounded Marines and Sailors who refused to allow their disabilities to get in the way of their participating in sports and as a way to move forward with their lives.
What's Your Motivation
The Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund provides financial assistance and quality of life solutions to:
- OEF/OIF Marines and Sailors injured in combat, training, or with life threatening illnesses
- Their families- to help defray the expenses incurred during hospitalization, rehabilitation, and recovery
- Other OEF/OIF service members injured while in direct support of Marine units and their families
- Help with expenses associated with the purchase of specialized equipment, adaptive vans or vehicles, and handicap home purchases and/or modifications
So, when I saw Jay's tweet to lose some weight, trash talk, make new friends, get my charity some exposure and hopefully some hard cold cash, I jumped at the opportunity. So far, there are 15 people participating in the challenge! Wow!
I think I can dig deep and lose some weight with these fine men and women. The weight loss challenge for charity is from December 5, 2008 to February 1, 2009.
UPDATE 12/7
Turns out I only saw the twitter part of the story. The whole thing started when Steve Belt, upon hearing Jay Thompson was a (former) avid cyclist, had been proding Jay for a long time to ride with him. After witnessing another prodding on twitter, Dean Ouelette issued a private challenge to Jay to lose weight. Jay thought it would be fun to get few other to join in and from that, the Real Estate Biggest Loser was born.
There are 42 46 participants! You guys ROCK!
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I really need to do this... and if I could concentrate on something for two weeks right now, I would.