I had the pleasure of participating in a conference call yesterday with Pete Thomas who appeared on season two of the “Biggest Loser.” Pete Thomas is part of the Healthy Wage national weight loss competition where teams of 5 can participate in a challenge called Matchup. In this challenge “Biggest Loser” contestants motivate healthy wage members.
Pete Thomas lost 83 pounds and lasted 62 days before he was voted off season two of the “Biggest Loser.” Since then he has lost a total of 185 pounds. But even more exciting is that he has kept the weight off.
Keeping the weight off has not been an easy task, since Pete realized that it was more than just working out and eating right. It was also about dealing with his food addiction. He expressed that it’s never something you are completely over with. You will always have to manage and deal with it.
One of the key points he made was that you have to learn how to eat in any environment. Learning how to eat at the office, the next family picnic, or wherever, is very important in keeping off the weight.
Pete also expressed how important it is that you never start a change in eating and exercising that you can’t maintain for the rest of your life. There is really no point starting something that you can’t maintain.
Pete’s fitness routine consists of seven hours per week. Sometimes that means one hour a day for seven days a week. Sometimes he will work out an extra hour on one day so that he can take off on another day. When he is traveling, he makes sure to take along an exercise DVD or he will get in some extra exercise the day before leaving or the day after he comes back.
He is very excited about being part of the Matchup challenge for Healthy Wage, along with season four contestant Neil Tejwani. They will be helping Healthy Wage members with articles, audio downloads, weekly blogs and live chats.
One of the questions many of you might have is why would Healthy Wage pay someone to lose weight. As Pete expressed, incentives help people to lose weight. But financial incentives will drive people. Studies were done that showed those who received financial incentives lost more weight than those who received none. Once the habit was developed, they continued doing well even after the incentive was no longer given.
It was a real pleasure to hear from Pete and hear how excited he is about the Healthy Wage challenge. You can visit their site to sign up and learn more about it.
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