Let the Games Begin

So yesterday the Body Transformation Challenge started for Dave and I.  We went to get weighed and measured, and to get body fat computed and photos taken around 6 pm. Who knew the Fairfield Nutrition store was just a front for the Herbalife company.  Well, it is. And the entire contest is basically their way of getting more customers.  OK, so that is my cynical view point.

The lady at my sister's church who gave me the cutout notice of the Body Transformation Challenge, and told me she had lost 40 pounds already, told me that she does Herbalife and that traditionally, Herbalife people fair better in the challenge than others.  My response to her was that I knew how to do herbalife without the Herbalife.  And it may be true that Herbalife people do better than others in this challenge but it may well be due to the frequent support group meetings that are held, that the others don't attend. I would be interested in seeing a good study done where each group got equal amounts of coaching and group support, where one eats (drinks, consumes, whatever) Herbalife and the other eats a healthy whole food diet, or even to compare other gimmicky things in the same league as Herbalife.

The other thing that ticked me off last night was that body fat was computed not by a pinch test or combination of taping and pinching and weight/height, but apparently by choosing one of three categories of occupation:  Office, Nurse, Laborer.  Bullshit on that.  That is not scientific.  Apparently that factors in with the height and weight (and my guess, gender) to determine body fat composition.  The Herbalife lady said the scale can detect, from my bare feet, through electrons, what my body fat content is.  Really?  Can that be?  Hmmmmmmm.....

Regardless, I weighed more than I thought.  The caveat though is that I am getting into almost all my smallest clothes....and we are talking size 10 and 8 here.  But, that weight is not what I want to weigh.  I want to take off at least 20 and maybe up to 30.  And when what you're doing isn't working, you have to try something else.

Thus, this contest to formalize a timeline.