Holiday Health Challenge Winners Announced Tomorrow!

Winners of the With-U Holiday Health Challenge will be announced in an award ceremony at 7:30 a.m. TOMORROW, Thursday, December 31, at Tustin Sports Park, 12850 Robinson Drive. Please join us to congratulate them as they receive their $1,500 cash prize!

The With-U Holiday Health Challenge was a tremendous success. The 90 participants lost a total of 475 pounds over an eight-week period beginning on Halloween. The winning five-person team lost more than 100 pounds total, averaging 8.9 percent of total body weight per individual team member. The second-place team lost a cumulative 86 pounds, averaging 6.53 percent of total body weight per member.

Seventeen of the 19 five-member teams in the Holiday Health Challenge lost weight—at a time of year when many people put on the pounds—and 92 percent of all participants lost weight or stayed at same weight.

Since the kick-off weigh-in on Oct. 31, the Health Challenge competitors have completed a cumulative total of more than 4,000 health- and nutrition-focused POGs.

In addition to the $1,500 grand prize award, each team completing at least 80 percent of its weekly assignments was entered into a drawing for an additional $500 cash prize.

Because the Holiday Health Challenges in both 2008 and this year were so popular and successful, With-U will be holding four similar eight-week Health Challenges during 2010. The kick-off weigh-in for the first quarterly challenge of 2010, “STRIP With-U” (for Spare Tire Reduction Incentive Program) will be held Jan. 16 at Runner’s High in Irvine, with participants competing for $2,000 total cash prizes.

For more information or to register, visit www.withu.org, or call us at 714-832-8590.

P.S. Check out the fabulous feature in today's Orange County Register, focusing on 2008 Holiday Health Challenge participant Cindy Speer, with lots of great photos of the Rough-Fit folks. http://www.ocregister.com/articles/healthy-226197-year-resolution.html