Primetime

While we’re not quite “prime time” yet, our ideas are.  Last night on ABC News Primetime, there was a story about 2 groups of people in a contest to lose weight (I believe they were 2 groups of  co-workers).  Each person in each group had to lose 15 pounds in 2 months (sissies).  One group was given only praise and group support throughout the 2 months.  The other group was trotted onto a minor league baseball field (empty at the time) and each of them was photographed in a bathing suit.  The deal that this group had was that any one of them who did NOT meet their goal would have that picture displayed on the Jumbo-Tron DURING a game.  The theory was that public humiliation is a good motivator for losing weight.

The results?   No idea — I fell asleep.  But before I did, I saw that all but 2 of “Team Humiliation” met their goal, and those two missed by a total of 3 pounds.

Our “problem”, if you will, is that none of us have a single bit of dignity, so public humiliation will never work (as indicated by our volunteering of half naked pics with no problem whatsoever).  I guess the praise and support route will have to work!

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21 December 2006 | Steve's Posts | Comments