i was contacted recently by a fellow body for life’er named ron, you can check out his site over at betterbizbooks.com. he was interested in starting up a personal challenge, a sort of body for life buddy to compete against. we will be wagering a small sum of money in the form of an amazon.com gift certificate to the person who can lose the most fat in 12 weeks. i am a bit larger than him so i didn’t feel right just taking his money because i know i will likely lose it faster than him. to alleviate this concern we decided to use a conversion factor of 70% when calculating our losses. so for every pound of fat i lose he has to lose 0.70 pounds. anyhow, i just wanted to tell everyone about this new challenge. i’ll be posting the war of numbers as the battles commence.


the first round of fat loss numbers for this past week is that i lost 3.0 lbs (3.0 * 0.70 = 2.1) and ron lost 3.7 lbs so i’m already down 1.6 lbs. i’m going to have to kick some extra butt this week. next week i will try and use my body fat callipers to start mesuring my losses. it is harder for me as i am still a bit large but i’ll give it a shot to see if the numbers work out better then just scale weight.