The Biggest Loser Competition 2013

This past Saturday was the start of the Biggest Loser Competition my church is hosting. We had 32 people sign up. The winner gets a cash prize of $640; so yeah, I signed up.

When I walked in, I figured I would be a shoe in as the winner. I have been trying to eat strictly primal for about 3 months now. I am not always successful, but I have been losing about 5 pounds a month, which in my book is pretty good. The competition is for 9 weeks, and I figure if I can stick with this primal thing hard, it should be a cake walk.

However, when I got to the meeting for the first weigh in, Dr. Thomas Stetson of Columbia Family Chiropractic was giving everyone pointers. He basically gave away my secrets. He talked about how bad grains and sugar are for our bodies and went into detail about the science behind chiropractors.

For me, I think the most memorable piece is when he talked about chicken nuggets; you know the stuff McDonald’s sells as all white meat chicken. Well, he showed a picture of pink slime and said that chicken nuggets were nothing more than bleached pink slime. “Have you ever seen a round chicken?”

It wouldn’t have been so bad if I hadn’t eaten chicken nuggets the week before; gross. (My husband and I actually had a conversation about how good the chicken nuggets were; the best thing on the menu. Note: We were not at McDonalds.)

Anyway, after the weigh in and presentation by Dr. Stetson, we split up into groups of 5 by color for the fitness challenge. My team is the yellow team. Our competition that day was ball slams. We had ten pound medicine balls and we had to raise them over our heads and slam them to the floor. The team that did the most ball slams in 20 minutes was the winner.

Being one of the youngest members of our team, and since I used to be very physically active. I figured I would be one of the greatest assets to our team. Not the case. Out of everyone, I completed the least amount of ball slams, but I may have done it the fastest. In any event, I really didn’t bring much to the table that day. I blame it on the fact that I had been lifting weights a few days before.

Tomorrow we have another weigh in and fitness challenge. I haven’t really exercised all week and I wanted to lift weights again today. But now I am worried that if I work out today, I will suck again tomorrow. What to do?