Nearly 100 pounds shed in one week!

Submitted by
Nicole Therrien
and Pat Stoyka

Fourth week and the “BIGGEST LOSER” contest is doing great and everyone is keeping their enthusiasm high!!!
In Rainy River we had 37 people show up for weigh in, our total weight loss was 84.5 lbs and 12.5 lbs gain giving us a net loss of 72 lbs. Good job Rainy River! Our door prize went to Stacey Godin who chose a gift certificate from Safeway. Our Biggest Loser was Angel Kovascfi with an 11 lbs loss this week. Congratulations Angel! She received a fruit basket provided by Beaver Mills in Rainy River.
Beaver Mills (Eileen Hawkins) and Susan’s Corner Store (Susan Carpenter) have graciously donated some of the fruit baskets that our biggest losers have received these last two weeks and will be providing more in the next weeks to come. We would like to thank them for their generosity and participation in this great event.
In Bergland, Pat reported that the Bergland Biggest Losers group met at 6:00 pm to hear Hal Wilhite give an interesting presentation on Motivation. It helped the members examine their personal motives and encouraged them to set realistic goals and keep the whole weight loss process in perspective. It was well received and will be beneficial to the group. We appreciated Hal giving his time to share this information with us.
Twenty members weighed in with a total loss of 24.1 lbs. We gained 9.6 lbs thus, giving us a net loss of 14.5 lbs. We had one new member join our group.
The winner of the attendance prize was Nancy Gates and her prize is yet to be chosen. The Biggest loser and recipient of the fruit basket donated by Pat Stoyka went to Billy Olson for his loss of 4.2 lbs. Congratulations Billy!
Nicole reminds and encourages every one to participate in the weekly discussions geared to improve motivation. These weekly discussions will start at 6:00 pm at both places. The regular weigh-in will begin at 6:30 pm as usual. We hope everyone has another week of healthy eating and regular daily activity.