Like I said in Twitter, I'm with you! Although I will most likely gain weight from this experiment rather than lose weight.

Anyway, I'm trying to brainstorm here so I apologize if this post is a little unstructured.

Does the site still have the threads that allow anyone to edit? It might work to have everyone who's participating listed on there so they can update (weekly?) with their current weight, types of exercise done, calories burned/consumed, eating habits, etc. If not, someone will have to maintain the thread quite often.

Would there be a time limit? Maybe 6 months?

That's all I can think of right now.

I'd be up for this too as I've been trying to lose weight for a while. I did start walking again when I moved but it appears that this year, we're going to skip Fall in this area and go straight to stupid Winter which kind of screws that. Some kind of competitive thing would be cool though as it could help motivate me to figure out an alternative.

I have some serious dental work coming up in November, I think I'll be loosing weight by default that month.

Odd that this topic just came up since I'm on a strict excercise/diet for getting into shape for the police academy. In Jan. of 2007 I weighed 339lbs at 5'10". I started working out as a new years resolution and am sitting here now at 255lbs. Most of this was due to the wife losing weight and the realization that if I were ever going to get my dream of being a cop then I was going to have to change.

I go to Bally's mon, tues, thur and fri. and my diet for the last few months because of the cop thing has been a big green apple for breakfast. A Lean Cuisine for lunch and whatever I want for dinner.

The only advice I can offer is find a friend to work out with. Other than that just have a goal of what you want and reach it. Sounds funny but when I started I couldn't run on a treadmill for more than 3 minutes but you just increase your goal everyday. Just over a year later and I run 2.5 miles four days a week.

If there are andy Goodjers in the Troy, Michigan area I would be more than happy to go work out with ya.

Count me in, I definitely need to start getting healthier.

I like this idea.

Sign me up!

I set a certain weight loss goal about a month back and I'm 6 lbs away from reaching it!

To start off, I cook my food in a much healthier way than my mother did when I was a kid. She would fry everything and serve it with two glasses of soda. I believe I drank about 2 cans a soda per day. Also, we weren't given any vegetables to eat. She never bought them.

When I finally moved out I completely changed the way I cooked. I enjoy making food from scratch and rarely buy ready-made mixes, dough and seasonings. There's usually way too much salt or sugar added to these things or it contains transfat. Also, I voluntarily added vegetables to my diet. The key to eating certain "disgusting" vegetables is to cook them in a way that significantly lowers or eliminates the taste. I've noticed that some people cook their vegetables separate from the main dish. I didn't do this. Problem solved.

We'd all have to reveal our current weight and find a way to verify how much each of us has lost, right? If not, then I don't see how this will work.

If you like publicly accessible graphs without too much work (all it asks for is daily weigh-ins), check out http://www.physicsdiet.com/

That's kinda the point of the whole Biggest Loser experiment. It's like the Pile of Shame. If you don't meet you're goals, you're not just letting yourself down, you're letting down the collective/being embarrassed by your laziness.

I can understand some reluctance to wanting to post your weight and such. We could theoretically set up a separate, password protected forum elsewhere for people to track this stuff (and maybe even get into weight loss strategies and post recipes and such) if people would feel more comfortable not posting that information to the internet at large, but even then, if you won (lost the most), I can almost guarantee a thread with your before and after weight (and picture?) in the main post.

We could actually set up several for different regions.

I'm tentatively in. I need and want to do it, but with changing jobs I'm not sure what my schedule will allow. But I want to make it work.

I currently clock in, I think, 247? I'm fat.

I am in. Too much cooking/baking for friends and families, combined with numerous trips to the local Carl's Jr and Sonic, have generated some ample fuel reserves recently.

Ah....finally some good motivation. I've been needing to do this for a long time but don't anyone else to do it with. Good timing! I'm in!

Home gym equipment. Find a gym with daycare (increasingly common around here). Take turns.

Replace "Todd" with "Erik" and I could have written this. I'm in.