Swish… I thought I was losing my mind.
Swish…
Swish… Every time I would get up to go to the restroom or head to the elevator, I’d hearing this mysterious swishing sound.
Sw
ish… I’d stop, look behind me, but no one would be standing there. Am I being followed? Is someone out to get me? Then one day I figured it out: that swishing noise is me, grown too large. My thighs are literally passing themselves, going and coming. I’m a walking fire hazard!
At that revelation I knew it was time, time to buckle down and lose some weight. At the same time, several of my co-workers in the
UAB Office of Public Relations and Marketing came to their own personal revelations. We all decided to sign up for
Scale Back Alabama .
Scale Back is a 10-week statewide weight loss challenge with lots of cool incentives for folks who lose 10 pounds or more. Now, being the artsy, former journalist types that we are, we decided to have a little fun with this challenge.
We kicked off our weight loss journey with a Fat Draft. That’s right. Since Scale Back requires teams of four and we have 16 takers, we picked four team captains who drew numbers and duked it out to get folks on their teams who could lose the most fat the fastest (the healthy way, of course).
And oh yeah, we designated the Fat Draft event as our one last hoorah before our lifestyle changes (we don’t use the D-word around here). We ate sauce-laden Thai food, grandma-style macaroni and cheese, sky-high stacked Jimmy Johns sandwiches and more.
(Focus, Marie. Focus.)
Anyway, Scale Back kicked off this week and now we are serious about getting our skinny back. We are counting calories (LoseIt.com has a cool free app), drinking lots of water, exercising and holding each other accountable. We have promised ourselves that we are no longer going to yield to the temptation of those evil boxes of chocolate-glazed donuts sitting near the receptionist’s desk. We won’t gorge on a buffet of leftovers from office parties or conferences. We’ll be chaste during lunchtime. And, we are (GASP!) emptying out those snack and candy drawers.
Our teams are Quatro Shrinko, Thighsman Trophy Winners, Ounces Aweigh and Eschew the Fat.
From time to time, several of us will give blog updates about our weight loss status. We’ll give you the good, the bad and the ugly. Hopefully, along the way we can offer our own weight loss tips and on April 7-13 declare ourselves victorious!
Wish us luck.
Swish… (What was that?)
I thought I was losing my mind.
Swish…
Swish…
Every time I would get up to go to the restroom or head to the elevator, I’d hearing this mysterious swishing sound.
Swish…
I’d stop, look behind me, but no one would be standing there. Am I being followed? Is someone out to get me? Then one day I figured it out: that swishing noise is me, grown too large. My thighs are literally passing themselves, going and coming. I’m a walking fire hazard!
At that revelation I knew it was time, time to buckle down and lose some weight. At the same time, several of my co-workers in the UAB Office of Public Relations and Marketing came to their own personal revelations. We all decided to sign up for Scale Back Alabama .
(Focus, Marie. Focus.)
Our teams are Quatro Shrinko, Thighsman Trophy Winners, Ounces Aweigh and Eschew the Fat.
From time to time, several of us will give blog updates about our weight loss status. We’ll give you the good, the bad and the ugly. Hopefully, along the way we can offer our own weight loss tips and on April 7-13 declare ourselves victorious!
Wish us luck.
Swish…
(What was that?)