State-wide Biggest Loser

A state-wide biggest loser will be held in 2009. Cabinets will compete against one another to determine which agency can win the honor of being the healthiest!

• This is a 12-week workplace team competition that encourages participants to reach sensible weight-loss goals by eating healthy and exercising.
  
  
• Participants will be grouped in teams of five. The program will use percentages of weight loss, not pounds, to make the race challenging to all participants, regardless of their weight-loss goals.
  
  
• To encourage management support, each team is paired with a manager. In addition, each team member has the option to choose one of the following programs: health coaching from the Humana's Weight management program or Active Health's "Why Weight KY" or a valid weight loss program (Weight Watchers, TOPS, and a Dietitian etc.) The Team with the highest percentage of weight loss and highest points earned will win the competition.
  
  
• Throughout the challenge, participants are invited to attend special 20-minute lunchtime sessions on topics such as “DASH diet,”  “Eating with Diabetes” and "Exercise and Weight Loss". 
  
  
• Each team can choose to participate in the American Cancer Society on-line Exercise Activity to earn additional points and encourage exercise.

More details will follow regarding how to get your agency ready to partake in this competiton.