Week 8 Results
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 5:16:42 PM EDT
We’re a little past halfway in the diet contest, and it’s currently a four-horse race. Or maybe a gazelle, a buffalo, a penguin, and a really old tortoise race.
Jolly Anode Ogre is still in the lead with Bread Snorter still in second place. However, Meal Urge Maniac in third and Cher Jonc En in fourth have narrowed the gap with the leaders.
There are now only three people that have continuously lost weight after 8 weeks: Meal Urge Maniac, Thy Error Bites, and Zip Mercer after Jolly Anode Ogre went up from last week.
Mystic Leech Jar has been consistently above his starting weight. Bread Snorter almost accomplished the same feat, being under his starting weight only once by accident.
Jolly Anode Ogre has also lost the most weight so far—19.4 lb (7.1%), followed by My Shaken Ton at 11.6 lb (4.4%) and Cher Jonc En at 8.4 lb (4.7%).
Bread Snorter has gained the most weight with 5.4 lb (3.1%), but Larded Swivels is giving it the old college try with 4.6 lb (2.3%).
It’s worth noting here that Bread Snorter’s attempt to win the diet contest twice in a row by losing a lot of weight to win the first one, and then gaining it all back in the second one, is unprecedented. Also, no one has ever one the contest by gaining weight, so this would be an impressive accomplishment if he can do it. Whether he wants to or not is a different question.
Down at the bottom of the list are I Hum Barroom Vice, Nu Owns Shag Van, and Mill at Dell Clench, having deviated about 1 lb on average from their starting weight. Their individual weight charts are so flat they can be used as reference lines for a carpenter’s water level.