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Show Weight loss challenge on gatherings, all of which serye rich food. . There is noway I can lose this contest with a deal like that. However, most of my co-workers have been offering me tasty little morsels all day. Second, and probably most important, im-portant, losing weight for me will be easier because I have more weight to lose. (No, I won't tell you how much more. ) It's kind of like the parable of the talents. He who is given the most talents is expected to do the most with them. w - v Thus it is in my case: he who is given the most weight is expected to do the most with it, namely lose it. Third, I'm the one writing this column, and as such, I can ask all Iron County Record readers to help me out. 11 you see Lee or Dave around during (he next three months, offer them a candy bar, or a cookie, or a soda pop-any pop-any thing with piles of sugar in it. Remember, it's kind of like feeding the bears at Yellowstone Park. They're so cute and cuddly, how can you resist? Stansfield never entered the challenge, i He says his ulcers keep his weight down. ) Anyway, the contest began somewhere around the first of the year and boils down to the I act that the three of us have each agreed to shed approximately ap-proximately 20 pounds by April 1. The guantlet has been thrown and picked up, albeit somewhat reluctantly. I'm not quite sure who threw it, but I believe it was Editor Lee VVarnick, when he first suggested that I might be getting a little mushy around the middle. Well, I couldn't stand for that and immediately countered. Before long, Advertising Manager Dave Gardner joined in, and the bet was on. Who could lose the most weight in three months? or come closest to his ideal weight (whatever that might be)? There are a couple of interesting things about this contest already. First you will notice that the bet wasn't whether we needed to lose weight, but simply how much we needed to lose. Second, notice that Publisher Mike Second, we will exercise. Lee has chosen to run. Dave and I are swimming swim-ming at least three times a week. Running is boring, and hard on the knees. A prize or reward for the winner has not(uite been nailed down at this point, but something has been said about the two losers buying the winner an electronic elec-tronic football game. (juite frankly, I think I have it made. First, 1 am the only one of the three who has no, what 1 call, "sweet-tooth connections." con-nections." A "sweet-tooth connection" is an obligation on the part of the dietee to partake of sweets offered from those who in some way or another he feels he must please. Dave is at the biggest disadvantage in this case. As a salesman, he is of-lered of-lered candy and various other sweets by nearly every client as he makes his rounds each week. Careful not to offend any of them, he must accept. He doesn't stand a chance. Lee has a similar problem. As editor of the paper, he is continually being invited to dinners and various other By BRUCE LEE And it's not all for fun. In fact, as we look around the town at others who have desk jobs like ours, we wonder if many of them couldn't benefit from an inter-office contest of some sort. The plan of attack is two-fold. First, we will simply eat less. Simply'.' |