The Great Health Challenge:
by Marcel Aubin

The Great Health Challenge package contains everything you need to start your own challenge within your organization or office. Staff members compete against each other to achieve the greatest change in their teams’ total weight and BMI. The contest is not just about losing weight, but about implementing a healthy lifestyle that incorporates healthy eating and good fitness habits. By working as a team, participants have the support and motivation of their team members to become as healthy as they can.

The Challenge begins with interested participants paying a small entry, which will be used to put on a wrap up party at the end of the challenge. All participants are divided up on to four teams and have their initial weight and BMI recorded. The total for the each team is then posted in an accessible area and the challenge is on!

Every two weeks each participant will have to weigh-in and have their BMI recorded. The new team totals will be added up and the results displayed to all staff. At the end of the Challenge the team with the largest percentage of loss in weight and BMI wins!

This package includes:

- posters and promotional material for the Great Health Challenge
- instructions on materials needed for the challenge
- easy-to-use record keeping documents

For more information on how to get involved, please contact:

Marcel Aubin - maubin@kfs.bc.ca

Or

drumbeat@bcaafc.com