Over 350 Total Pounds Lost in With-U Wellness Challenge

April 5, 2010 - PRLog -- The results are in for the 8-week With-U STRIP (Spare Tire Reduction Incentive Program) Challenge, which ended March 14, with some 75 participants logging more than 350 cumulative pounds and just shy of 100 inches lost.
   
The With-U Health & Wellness Challenges are a healthy lifestyle program organized by Wellness In Total Health University (With-U), an online health education and employee wellness program. The winning 5-member team, the Belly Jelly’s, lost a total 12.55 inches off their waistlines, with two of the members, a married couple, losing more than 7 inches between them. The winning team in the weight-loss category was The Paula Deen Fan Club, who lost a cumulative 5.77% of their total body weight. First- and second-place teams in those two categories, as well as the teams who completed the highest number of bi-weekly health behavior goal assignments, split $1,500 in cash prizes among them.
   
With-U  has awarded more than $5,000 in prizes through its team-based incentive Health & Wellness Challenges over the past four months. Challenge participants have lost a cumulative total of nearly 1,000  pounds and successfully completed a cumulative total of more than 14,000 healthy behaviors.
   
Registration is now under way for With-U’s Working On Wellness (WOW) Challenge, which will begin with a weigh-in on Saturday, April 10. For more information about WOW and other 2010 With-U Challenges, visit  http://www.with-u.us/public/wellnesschallenge/wellchallen....
   
With-U founder and CEO Lindsey Fernandez said the team structure of the challenges motivates participants to do their best to stick to a healthy regimen. “Most people don’t want to let their teammates down, so they work harder to complete assignments and stick to healthy behaviors than they might if they were not accountable to others,” Fernandez says.
   
Like other With-U Health & Wellness Challenges, the eight-week WOW Challenge will feature bi-weekly weigh-ins and cash and gift prizes based on weight loss and completion of assigned diet, exercise and healthy life-style goals. Registration is $40 per individual. Participants must be age 18 or older and may form their own four- to six-person teams.

Contestants have access to WITH-U’s proprietary online POG
(Plan Of Goals) system for setting and tracking personal fitness goals. Each contestant will receive a weekly newsletter and assigned exercise and lifestyle goals. Individual weights will remain confidential and will be reported only as percent of total body weight. Participants who already are at a healthy weight may still compete by completing the weekly health goals. The upcoming WOW Challenge will focus extensively on both weight loss and maintaining a healthy weight.

   
With-U specializes in employee and student wellness programs for businesses and educational institutions utilizing its proprietary online POG (Plan Of Goals) system. For more information about the With-U STRIP Challenge and other upcoming health challenges, visit http://www.with-u.us or call 714-832-8590.

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With-U specializes in employee and student wellness programs for businesses and educational institutions utilizing its proprietary online POG (Plan Of Goals) system. With-U Health & Wellness Challenge participants have lost more than 1,000 pounds total.