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Team Leaders are
Key to Success
By Jennifer Osborn
Essential to the success of Lose and Win is
an enthusiastic and trustworthy team
captain.
Team captains lead the way by example.
The Pound Shedders exhibit great
team spirit at a 2006 Lose and Win
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Critical to being a team manager is
confidentiality and trust. You don’t go
around talking about how much people need to
lose. People need to feel confident sharing
their weight with the team captain.
One task the team captain performs is to
calculate each team member’s weight loss or
gain each week and email the total team loss
to Iris Simon, a Lose and Win Planning
Committee member. That doesn’t take a lot of
time, according to past team captains.
The main task of the team leader is to be
the team cheerleader. Keeping the team on
goal and motivated is key to success.
Some participants follow the food pyramid,
which is what the Lose and Win program
suggests. Following the pyramid balances out
the carbohydrates and proteins that are
eaten.
Last year, participants lost over 2,000
pounds. There were 374 participants and the
average weight loss was 7.034 pounds. The
top five teams did better than that with
average losses between 11 and 14.9 pounds.
The most weight lost by one person was 32
pounds.
The figures show that Lose and Win has made
a difference for its participants in past
years. And those who participated report
that Lose and Win was enjoyable.
To become a team captain, simply gather a
team of 4 to 10 people, fill out the Team
Captain Registration form in this supplement
and mail it to Health Link. Then prepare to
Lose and Win. |
