Weightloss Incentive

About every 6 months, the school sends home what we students refer to as "fat letters" where the nurse tells the parents/guardians that their child should lose weight. These may be very necessary and I guess have the potential to save someones life and help them be healthier, but I doubt it. These simply discourage students, one reason being that they only factor in your gender, height, age and weight. Not muscle index or anything. So just about every athlete gets one. This year I got one. I showed my parents and didn't think much of it, but they felt otherwise. Both of my sisters are on a lot of medication for allergies, asthma etc. which contributes to some weight gain for them too. My parents could both afford to lose a few ponds as well. On top of all of this, our family does not always eat healthily. All of these facts considered, we had a meeting at dinner last night. We all weighed in using the same scale and wrote down our weight, my mom being the witness. We now have between yesterday, November 5th, and Devember 15th to lose weight. On December 15th we will find the difference and each receive 12 dollars per pound we lost. Immediately my mother was worried that we would starve ourselves, but my father assured her that we love food too much to be out at risk for that. So its time to lose some weight!