Weight Loss Bet

Mr. Manager · 04-09-2010 09:29PM #1

Right,

Not sure where to put this so I figured here was most appropriate

Anyways, I'm looking to set up a weight loss prop bet in work with one other lad. We're unsure on how it should run though. Some are saying we should go by weight loss percentage, some saying first to lose 'X' amount of lbs and others are saying measure by BMI.

Has anybody ever done anything similar or got any suggestions?!

Thanks!

oppenheimer1 · 04-09-2010 09:34PM

Stupid bet. Just make the terms so that its more likely you'll win.

galwayrush · 04-09-2010 09:36PM

Stop abusing the cereal and you'll win hands down.................

Fukuyama · 04-09-2010 09:36PM

Go to the fitness forum.

You're just gonna get called tubby here.

YouTalkinToMe · 04-09-2010 09:37PM

First to stand beside a lampost sideways and disappears wins.

BOHtox · 04-09-2010 09:38PM

There's fat chance of that

Mr. Manager · 04-09-2010 09:40PM

I'm not so much fat, just happened to have developed a little belly

I'm less than 160 lbs at 6 foot.

themadchef · 04-09-2010 09:40PM

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Stupid bet. Just make the terms so that its more likely you'll win.

Not entirely stupid. Even if he loses the bet he still loses the weight and that itself is winning the battle.

Lookit, wimmim and men across the country throw €10 a week to a stranger to weigh them. Go for it. Throw the tenner a week into a pot for say....6 weeks? Winner is the one who loses the most on the scales. If there is a huge difference in your weights though youre just going to argue over "how fair" the rules are.

Best of luck with it OP

MistyCheese · 04-09-2010 09:40PM

The answer to this is the same as the answer to many of life's big questions: Sausages!

What you do is weigh each participant, then divide their weight by the weight of the average sausage, which is 2oz. At the end of the contest you weigh everyone again and once more find their weight in sausages. Whoever has lost the most sausages wins! Their weight in sausages!!

This is how it's always done where I work.

My name is URL · 04-09-2010 09:41PM

Set a target percentage of weight loss for each of you based on BMI, closest to the percentage required wins

wonderfulname · 04-09-2010 09:41PM

% is the most accurate of your options, BMI is bull and the fattest of your group will win if its just lbs.

Fukuyama · 04-09-2010 09:42PM

MistyCheese wrote: »

The answer to this is the same as the answer to many of life's big questions: Sausages!

What you do is weigh each participant, then divide their weight by the weight of the average sausage, which is 2oz. At the end of the contest you weigh everyone again and once more find their weight in sausages. Whoever has lost the most sausages wins! Their weight in sausages!!

This is how it's always done where I work.

Do you work in a butchers?

Kiera · 04-09-2010 09:44PM

My name is URL wrote: »

Set a target percentage of weight loss for each of you based on BMI, closest to the percentage required wins

^^^ this!

And then go fall in love. It made me lose 2.5 stone

Mr. Manager · 04-09-2010 09:44PM

There's not a huge difference in the two of us.

I'm roughly 160 lbs and he's roughly 145 lbs.

Just trying to find the fairest way to measure a winner

Mr. Manager · 04-09-2010 09:46PM

Kiera wrote: »

...go fall in love. It made me lose 2.5 stone

It's actually right around the time I got with the missus did I notice the weight being packed on. I was smoking 20 a day at the time too but am now a year off.

When I was smoking I weighed roughly 9 stone, then gave up the smokes and within about 8-10 weeks I was up at over 13.6 stone

MistyCheese · 04-09-2010 09:48PM

Dean0088 wrote: »

Do you work in a butchers?

Weird, I was thinking of adding the information that I do NOT work in a butchers. I should have.

I still think the sausages way is the best. If it's just a fun, work thing then you don't want to be going into all this specific percentage, BMI, TMI stuff. Keep it light and fun. The participants are still gonna lose weight, right? So it's (to use an American expression) all good. Unless the prize is a house in North Colorado or a trip to the original set of The Thing, 'cause then competition would be pretty fierce.

kfallon · 04-09-2010 09:51PM

OP just do what you have to do, reckn I've lost about 2-3 stone in the last year, it's all about willpower!

Mr. Manager · 04-09-2010 09:55PM

Willpower is the tough part. I was using the gym in work 3-4 nights a week. Then was unable to go for a period of 2 weeks and have found it near impossible to get back into the routine again and I know it's all about routine!

That's why I've set up this bet to keep me from falling off the wagon, again!

Plus we're always giving each other grief about whose belly hangs over the *keyboard most!

*slight exaggeration

King Felix · 04-09-2010 09:57PM

1. Strap some weights to your inner groin for the original weigh-in.*
2. Lose some weight.
3. ????????
4. Profit.

*(don't forget to remove the weights at the end)

Kiera · 04-09-2010 09:59PM

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

It's actually right around the time I got with the missus did I notice the weight being packed on. I was smoking 20 a day at the time too but am now a year off.

When I was smoking I weighed roughly 9 stone, then gave up the smokes and within about 8-10 weeks I was up at over 13.6 stone

She's a feeder. Dump her ass

itsallaboutheL · 04-09-2010 10:00PM

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

It's actually right around the time I got with the missus .....
......I weighed roughly 9 stone...

ZOMG.

Lesbians!

On the internet.

Success.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 04-09-2010 10:05PM

Kiera wrote: »

^^^ this!

And then go fall in love. It made me lose 2.5 stone

You used to be cool, another poor soul lost...

OP I have a rather radical method here , try to stay with me here, there's a new school of thought that suggests that eating less and excercising more can cause you to shed the pounds! Give it a whirl and you'll win the bet no matter how it's phrased
:pac:

Kiera · 04-09-2010 10:07PM

Aviana Greasy Rucksack wrote: »

You used to be cool, another poor soul lost...

Hey! I broke his heart* which makes me uber-cool** now! :cool:

*this may not be true.

** I am actually uber-cool tho!

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 04-09-2010 10:12PM

But do you not miss drinking in the dark in your jim jams singing All by myself?

Kiera · 04-09-2010 10:19PM

Aviana Greasy Rucksack wrote: »

But do you not miss drinking in the dark in your jim jams singing All by myself?

I dont own jim jams

rubadub · 04-09-2010 11:04PM

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

he's roughly 145 lbs.

Sounds like he should be putting on weight.

tony1kenobi · 04-09-2010 11:09PM

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

When I was smoking I weighed roughly 9 stone, then gave up the smokes and within about 8-10 weeks I was up at over 13.6 stone

So you want to lose 4 and a half stone quickly? Ask Ashley Cole.....he did it in under 3 minutes yesterday.

orourkeda · 04-09-2010 11:11PM

Increase the **** regime.

Then have one of these

http://lisa.cs.duke.edu/~john/finalproject/curry.jpg

washed down with

http://www.businessandleadership.com/fs/img/special-reports/295px/guinness.jpg

Erica<3 · 05-09-2010 12:32AM

Do it a fiver per pound you lose. Don't go by BMI as the person who loses weight but gains muscle is going to lose..

easyeason3 · 05-09-2010 12:41AM

I have heard that muscle weighs more than fat. I don't know how true that is really because I imagine a pound of fat would weigh the same amount as a pound of muscle on a scales, but hey, I'm no expert.

What you need to do is start limiting the amount you are eating each day & excercise like your life depended on it. Limit or cut out the shyte food, go off the drink & start walking more. You should see a difference in about two weeks.

However if it's a quick fix you want then you can lick a bit of raw chicken/ mince. A healthy dose of salmonella never hurt anyone.

itsallaboutheL · 05-09-2010 12:42AM

Erica<3 wrote: »

Do it a fiver per pound you lose. Don't go by BMI as the person who loses weight but gains muscle is going to lose..

um. that's not logical at all.

easyeason3 wrote: »

I have heard that muscle weighs more than fat. I don't know how true that is really because I imagine a pound of fat would weigh the same amount as a pound of muscle on a scales, but hey, I'm no expert.

It's more dense.

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