My fellows teachers and I have signed up to do Blue and You fitness Challenge. This is a thing sponsored by Arkansas Blue Cross mainly to get people like me off their carcasses and get fit or fitter. This is not necessarily a weight loss thing, although weight loss does fit into the picture. This whole shebang does not start until March 1, but several of us are now in the diet pool contest. Ten bucks to start, weigh in every week- if you lose, great, if you gain you are fined $1 per pound. The person who loses the greatest percentage of weight wins the pot. Last time the pot was somewhere around $100.
So Tuesday when we get back from mid-winter break, we start the diet pool. This thing goes till May 1 when the Blue and You ends.
This could get interesting. All the people who are doing the diet pool are also in Blue and You. We are a reasonably competitive lot as well. Sabotage is not beneath us!
Lent also starts next week as well. Although I am not Catholic, I do practice the sacrifice part of Lent. Coffee, chocolate, red meat, sodas, and bread have all been things put to the wayside for Lent in the past. Chances are it will be all of the above, save coffee, as I have been threatened with death if I ever give that up!
So I will keep all three of you posted on how the progress of these two things go. In the meantime, good luck to the One Tom Cat and a Bunch of Strays Blue and You team!. We will prevail!
