Week 9 Weigh-In

Only six more days to get your sexy back! Let's get after it boys. The final weigh in is set for Saturday, 9.22, sometime before the game. We will get together before the game (site tbd), some will enjoy the football festivities at the game, some at a sports bar, some at home? Either way, we will all get together that night for our BBC Din-Din (site tbd). Whomever we determine to have lost the least (percentage wise) will have to pony up some apps. The winner (biggest loser) will have the choice of restaurant, and will receive $100 from the rest of us ($20 per entrant). Good fun the past few weeks, looking forward to the results. Good luck to all the final six days. Make sure to put in that extra effort. Remember, the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is... a little extra. Lu is at a solid (actually kinda buttery) 179 lbs.

• Lu (Posted Sept 16): 179 lbs
• Budi (Posted Sept 16): 169 lbs
• Edge (Posted Sept 16): 294.5 lbs
• Shoney (Posted Sept 18): 218 lbs

Clemson Game

Game time is set for 12:00. Final weigh in is 4:00 (after the game). All agree? Yes? Answer asap.

Week 8 - Down to the wire

Brian's comment was hilarious. You keep fightin buddy. Don't quit, regardless of the outcome. I know that after week 10, I am still goin. I have so much farther to go to get to my goal of 235. Slow and steady, Smart and healthy!

• Edge (Posted Sept 9): 294.5 lbs
• Shoney (Posted Sept 9): 221 lbs
• Lu (Posted Sept 9): 180 lbs
• Budi (Posted Sept 11): 169 lbs

Week 7 Weigh-In

Less than 3 weeks to go. Who's going to make up ground? Who's still in the hunt? Edge's lead seems insurmountable... BB, Budi and Lu have been climbing up the ladder. Benny and Brian are neck and neck... Hey, where's Brad? And why did he pick Michael Vick? Long story short, Lu's on his way back. 181 lbs.

• Lu (Posted Sept 2): 181 lbs
• Edge (Posted Sept 2): 298.5 lbs
• Budi (Posted Sept 3): 169.5 lbs
• Shoney (Posted Sept 4): 222 lbs
• Heavy B (Posted Sept 4): 225 lbs

Week 6 Weight

Edge is back the board with perfect game. 300

• Edge (Posted Aug 26): 300 lbs
• Budi (Posted Aug 26): 170 lbs
• Lu (Posted Aug 27): 186 lbs
  BB (Posted Aug 31): 225 lbs

Don't Fret

Hey Guys! I just wanted you all to know that my surgery went well and I am now out of my fiberglass splints. They tend to add to the weighing. I will have my updated weight in the next round. Do not count me out cuz despite my personal trauma and absence from the PC, I am still well into the hunt. Give 'em hell!

Week 5 Weigh-In

Slow and steady... 184 lbs. for Lu

1. Lu (Posted Aug 19): 184 lbs
2. Budi (Posted Aug 20): 171.5 lbs
3. Shoney (Posted Aug 21): 222 lbs
4. Heavy B (Posted Aug 21): 227.2 lbs

Scoring Spreadsheet

Since it looks like most people are only reporting their weight, I have narrowed down the scoring to 2 formulas that only use weight. Let's choose between these two or if someone can give us an exact formula we can consider that as well. I have entered in the weights reported for the first 4 weeks -- if you did not report a weight for a week, then I assumed you maintained the same weight as last reported.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p6xjiT7NLvrYvOV6TAH-aag&hl=en_US

Week 4 Weigh-In

Watch out Edge, Lu's on a roll! 185 lbs.

1. Lu (Posted Aug 12): 185 lbs
2. Budi (Posted (Aug 12): 171 lbs
3. Brandon (Posted Aug 13): 229 lbs
   
4. Ben (Posted Aug 13): 196 lbs
   

Week 3 weight

Edge is on fire! 308 lbs.

1. Edge (Posted Aug 5): 308 lbs
2. Lu (Posted Aug 5): 187 lbs / 37.5 inches
3. Budi (Posted Aug 6): 172 lbs
4. Heavy B (Posted Aug 8): 232 lbs

Week 2 Weigh In

Thanks Edge for starting this week's weigh-in thread. Here is what we have so far:

1. Edge (Posted July 30): 312 lbs
2. Budi (Posted July 30): 174 lbs
3. Lu (Posted (July 30): 191 lbs
4. Ben (Posted July 30): 194 lbs / 37.5 inches
5. Heavy B (Posted July 31): 234 lbs
6. Shoney (Posted Aug 2): 221 lbs
   

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Hey Guys!

Week 2 stats for myself are:

312lbs. Inches: ?? (saving that as a surprise and that I can't find my tape measure.)

Catch me if you can.

Week 1 Weigh-Ins

Here are the weigh-ins for the end of Week 1:

1. Shoney (Posted July 22): 223 lbs / 45.5 inches
2. Lu (Posted July 22): 194 lbs / ?? inches
3. Budi (Posted July 23): 175 lbs / 39 inches
4. Edge (Posted July 23): 314 lbs / ?? inches
5. Ben (Posted July 23): 195 lbs / 38 inches
   

First Agenda

There are a couple of items that need to be resolved quite shortly. First is the exact formula we will use to rank everyone's progress. The initial thought was to use a 40% total weight loss plus 60% weight percentage loss formula. The fundamental problem here is that these two variables have completely different units and it becomes trickier to normalize the data between both variables particularily as the values increase. For example, if someone who weighs 180 lbs loses 10 lbs then their %W=5.6 whereas someone who weighs 300 lbs loses 10 lbs then their %W=3.3. Take the same two people and make their weight loss, W, equal 25 lbs and their %W are 13.9 and 8.3 respectively. This means that as weight loss gets larger the ratio of W to %W gets larger to the point that it becomes the dominating factor.

Now the theory to using %W as the dominant factor is based on the assumption that it is easier for someone who weighs 300 lbs to lose 20 lbs than someone who weighs 160 lbs. If that is the case then the significance of W over %W must be further minimized in order to achieve such a goal. I have created a spreadsheet with our reported intial stats to test how several formulas would play out over a small sample set where all of us lose the same increments of weight each week. My personal belief is that if person A and person B wiegh 177 lbs and 318 lbs then if person A loses 10 lbs, he should have the edge over person B if he loses the same amount. If person B loses 15 lbs, the rankings should be close and if person B loses 20 lbs, the edge should go to the later contestant.

Please see http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p6xjiT7NLvrYOCIV68kqfRQ&hl=en_US for the spreadsheet.


The second item to discuss is what the "punishment" for finishing last should be. The initial punishment was to make the loser pay for everyone's dinner (max $30/person) when we meet up in September for an NCSU FB game. Some people have issues with the severity of the penalty so here are some options I have thought of:

1. Keep the same penalty, but give the loser the recourse of losing 2% of his current weight over the next 40 days to commute the penalty to paying dinner only for the winner (would mean dinner would have to be postponed).
2. Loser only pays for the winner's meal.
3. Loser buys up to 4 appetizers for the group meal.
4. Loser becomes beer and food bitch for the entire game day. He doesn't have to buy the food/drinks but anytime anyone wants a drink or a snack he has to be the bitch and get up and get it for them. (My personal favorite penalty)

I have set up 2 polls for us to vote on these issues. Both polls are open for a month -- I figure we don't have to rush for decisions as only the final weigh-in counts and rules shouldn't change strategy, but we should set a time limit so this doesn't go on forever.

Heavy' B weigh-in

42.5 Waist
235.5 lbs

I am a sexy beast!!!

Initial Weigh-Ins

In this post are the initial weigh-ins for everyone. Please edit this post to enter you stats or email them to me and I will put them in here for you.

1. Lu (Posted July 15): 191 lbs / 40.5 inches
2. Heavy B -- AKA Brandon (Posted July 15): 235.5 lbs / 42.5 inches
3. Ben (Posted July 15): 195 lbs / 38.5 inches
4. Budi (Posted July 15): 177 lbs / 39.5 inches
5. Edge (Posted July16): 318lbs / 58 inches
6. Brian (Posted July 16): 222 lbs / 26 inches
   

First post for the BBC (Big Boy Club)

At last check, the proposal was to do a $20 entry fee per contestant with the entire prize pool going to the grand winner. Loser buys dinner for all with 30$ max per person.

60% weight percentage lost, 40% overall weight lost.

There was a proposal by Ben that said:

The other thing we could try for part of the contest is to see how many inches we've lost around the belly. Measuring tape is cheap/measure at the navel (belly button). And yes, we can even all agree to suck in and measure if people wish. Maybe make it 20%, and have 40% be percentage weight lost and 40% be overall weight loss

I could agree with the circumference addenum as long as the loss was measured in percentage. Shall we take a vote on this?