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4 • Lögberg-Heimskringla • Friday 22 April 2005
Gaining and losing is the name of the game
Steinþór Guðbjartsson
Managing Editor
Normally losing weight
is no fun. It is a serious
matter — something
many plan to do and few ac-
compish. Talking about it and
writing about it makes some
people rich. Participating in the
program makes others sweat.
In the beginning of the year,
four relatively young men start-
ed in what is called the Gimli
Diet and Exercise Program (the
name, GDEP, is supposed to re-
mind the participants of the fact
that one Gains weight by Drink-
ing and Eating big Portions) with
the objective of losing 80 pounds
together by Easter. It was stated
that by the end of the year a large
portion of them would have dis-
appeared.
Now, less than four months
after they started the program,
they have reached their first ob-
jectives. Not only have they lost
10% of their total weight, but
also one of them is gone. He went
back to Iceland in the beginning
of April, weighing less than ever
before and talking about coming
back when he could retum on a
child’s ticket.
Since he had to pay a similar
amount for overweight luggage
on his flight from Winnipeg to
Toronto as for the ticket from
Winnipeg to Minneapolis via
Toronto he assumed that the less
he weighed, the less he would
have to pay for his next ticket.
As mentioned above, he is rela-
tively young and therefore time
is not a factor. In the meantime
his total weight has been sub-
tracted from the total weight of
the four relatively young men. In
other words they have lost more
than 20% of the total weight just
because of his decision to retum
to Iceland.
Soon after the relatively four
young men started their pro-
gram, a group of three relatively
young women working out in
the gym in Gimli challenged
them. They said they would lose
more weight in the same period
of time and suggested that the
winners would get a trip of their
choice at the cost of the losers.
After a few weeks, the wom-
en realized that this was a com-
petition they could not win, the
main reason being that they did
not have to lose much weight, if
any. Yet they wanted to win the
first prize and organized trips for
themselves. As a result, one went
to Alberta, another to BC and the
third one to Mexico. However
they all retumed and their total
weight did not change.
The actual winners have
not claimed their prize yet, but
the competition made the battle
with the extra pounds more fun.
Actually they have had so much
fun working seriously on losing
weight that they have decided to
continue in the GDEP program
with a new objective in mind:
you gain some and you lose
some.
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I’m sending a photo from Josephine
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Marteinsson (second row, seated, farthest
left) and Rev. Sigurdur and Mrs. Ingibjorg
Olafsson (second row, sixth and seventh
from right).
Readers may enjoy looking at and try-
ing to recognize these people. Please send
any information about this photo to:
Nelson Gerrard
Box 925
Arborg, Manitoba
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