Office weight loss group: rules and ideas for your team

Looking for rules for a “biggest loser contest at work”? Lossboard deliberately scores differently: the winner is not whoever loses the most, but whoever sticks with a healthy pace. Weekly points for weight within a healthy corridor, weighing in and steps, with team scoring and private weights.

Agree on this first

• Optional. One invite in the team channel is enough, whoever wants joins.
• Points, not pounds. The ranking uses weekly points for a healthy pace, weighing in and steps. Coworkers see points and percent, kg stay private unless someone shares their own.
• Separate from work. Ideally someone without line management responsibility organises it.

Ideas for your office group

Teams against teams

Department against department, floor against floor. The team score is the average weekly points of its members, so small and large teams count the same.

Most consistent of the week in the team meeting

Announce who earned the most weekly points on Monday. Takes ten seconds and creates more buzz than any company email.

Moving more at work

Theme weeks for the office: stairs week, lunchtime walks, standing meetings, bike instead of car. Steps count in Lossboard anyway, and everyone who joins in gets a 👏 in the channel.

Buddies across the building

In Lossboard everyone has the person right ahead of them as a buddy. That gets people talking who hardly talk otherwise.

Rules that work for teams

1. 8 weeks, starting on a Monday.
2. One weigh-in day per week, everyone enters their own weight.
3. Scored with weekly points: up to 50 for a healthy pace, 20 for weighing in, 30 for steps.
4. A most consistent of the week every week, and at the end places 1 to 3 plus the best team.
5. Losing weight too fast earns fewer points, not more.

Message for your team channel

Team weight loss group 🏆 (optional)
Start: Monday 5 January, 8 weeks
Weigh-in: Mondays, everyone enters their own weight
Points for a healthy pace, weigh-ins and steps, the group never sees weights.
We celebrate the most consistent of the week, and the best team wins at the end.
Join with the link, app or browser: lossboard.app

Up to 30 people with one purchase

For teams of up to 30 people, the organiser pays €9.99 once. Everyone else joins for free, in the app or in the browser, with no account and no work email. For bigger companies, create one group per department. To work out weekly points by hand use the points calculator, and for a spreadsheet start there is a free template.