Challenges

My workplace is exceptionally health-friendly. There’s a local program that often hosts events and/or challenges for employees like an annual “Biggest Loser” competition and currently a “November Fitness Challenge.” The point of the fitness challenge is to rack up as many minutes of exercise as you can, and then the team with the highest average minutes wins. My coworker and I formed a team, not so much to compete to win, but just to participate and have something to guilt us (motivate us?) into exercising. I’m rocking and have almost my whole minute log filled in, so I’m going to have to expand onto a sheet of paper to log my additional minutes. I feel very hardcore.

This year they have a new challenge over the holiday season—it involves maintaining instead of gaining. Apparently the average person gains 5-10 holiday pounds and often does not lose them. I’d rather avoid that, so the coworker and I signed up today.

From now until the beginning of January we have to go get weighed in each Monday, and they give us helpful information and pats on the back, etc, etc. This could either end well (and give me a reason not to eat an abnormal amount of pie) or it could end badly (and make me feel like crap for eating an abnormal amount of pie). We’ll see if I’m able to maintain (or even lose… preferably that pesky two pounds that’s keeping me from having lost 75 pounds total) over the holiday season, or if the baked goods come back to haunt me. Either way it will be fun to participate!

In other news, I am still sniffly and not feeling well. So if this post seems a little incoherent it would be due to the cold medicine I just took. Tonight is my 100 Pushups Challenge final test wherein I see if I am, in fact, capable of doing 100 pushups consecutively. It’s entirely possible that I’ll have to stop to blow my nose in the middle.