It's my pleasure to announce the winners of the RealJock Nu4You Fall Weight Loss Challenge. Everyone in this Challenge has been absolutely fantastic.  Remember that our scoring system focuses on more than your weight loss percentage, but on all of the following factors that will help you keep your weight off for the long-term!

   -Percent Body Weight Loss
   -Record Keeping
   -Eating Breakfast
   -Exercise
   -Monitoring Weight
   -Low-fat Diet
   -Sportsmanship

Thank you to everyone for participating in the Challenge, and we hope that you will keep up with your nutrition goals, and tell your friends about Nutrition for You and Nu4You.net

 First Place

Matt45710 Total Score: 97.2

Matt45710 lost 21 lbs an excellent 11.4% of his original body weight during the challenge.    Although this wasn't the highest percentage weight loss accomplished by TigerFrank with 30 lbs and 13.5% Matt45710 excelled across the board in all of our critical numbers!

Congratulations Matt45710 you win a Polar F6 heart rate monitor and a hand held body fat tester! 

Second Place

Ctocity Total Score 93.8

Ctocity lost 16.6 lbs an excellent 8.6% of his original body weight.  The second place spot was a very close contest between ctocity score 93.8, jkw69 score 93.4  and thegaytekeeper  score 93.2.  We spent a lot of time checking and re-checking the numbers for these 3 because the scores were so close.

Congratulations to ctocity who will win a Polar F6 heart rate monitor!

Fantastic Results

As we finished the challenge we had 23 out of the original 33 contestants finish the challenge.

Really great statistics for the 23 finishers of the Challenge:
100% of the Finishers lost weight.
Group Starting Weight: 5,319
Group Ending Weight:  5,007
Pounds Lost: 312 during the challenge (or 1,092,000 calories!)
Average Weight Loss Per Person: 13.6 pounds
Average Weight Loss Per Person Per Week: 1.5 pounds
The largest weight loss: 30 pounds
The least weight loss: 5 pounds
Contest Length: 9 weeks

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