A couple clarifications

I have gotten a couple questions, so I thought I would post my proposed answers. Feel free to comment with any others and we will try to get everything worked out before the first weigh in on Saturday, January 3rd.

• If you decide to drop out or don't post your weight change and percentage by midnight each Sunday and are disqualified, it is only fair to the group that you pay what you owe to the pot up to that point.
• Once we start the competition, only those people participating will be able to view the blog, so we are not sharing with the world. I will change the permissions once we get going. I will also make it so that those participating can add blog posts. I will send you the info to do this once I have it set up. I have had some people suggest that we do before and after pictures. I will leave that up to each indivividual - but I think I'm gonna make John do it and I probably will too.
• I will be doing a summary each week and we will declare a Biggest Loser of the Week each week - just for fun.
• If everyone could post the following things in the blog each week under the comment section for that respective week - that would be great:

1. Weight change for the WEEK to the nearest 10th of a lb (ex: down 0.5 lbs)
2. Percent weight change for the WEEK to the nearest 100th of a percent (ex: 0.01%). Note: Percentage weight loss is calculated like this: starting weight - current weight / starting weight x 100 (or just use the online calculator - I put it on a links tab in the blog) Your starting weight for this one will be your weight from the previous week. This will be used to determine the weekly Biggest Loser.
3. Weight change for the COMPETITION to the nearest 10th of a lb (ex: down 0.5 lbs)
4. Percent weight change for the COMPETITION to the nearest 100th of a percent (ex: 0.01%). Note: Use online calculator or equation above. Your starting weight for this one will be your weight when you started the competition. This will be used to determine the competition Biggest Loser.

If anyone has any other questions or needs some clarifications, just post a comment and I will try to address them before the first weigh in. Also, if you haven't yet - please add a comment to the first post so people know who and how many people are participating.

Should be fun! I think we should have 8-10 people at least.