Notes for Thursday

Just a few things on this last day before weigh in.

• We are still accepting new members thru Saturday, Sept. 30. Then, it is too late to join the Pool (at least this go round, we are anticipating a New Year Pool for the polar bear crowd)
• Reminder: starting this week 1 entire pound minimum must be lost to not pay the Fatty Fee. With digital scales, we know you can tell us tenths of a pound and we want some hard work and progress, so a pound minimum is the requirement. As always, this is the honor system, so if you lose half a pound don't fib and say it was a pound.
• If you haven't yet, send in a "starting" pic of your tootsies on the scale with your current weight. This is for verification to declare our winners at the end. Don't want someone inflating their starting weight just to win the money.
• Reminder: Paypal payments must be a Paypal Balance Transfer or cash transfer from a certified bank account. WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING DEBIT OR CREDIT CARD TRANSFERS. This alleviates us from paying the Paypal fees, the entire $5 needs to come into the DEOTP account.
• Weigh ins are on Friday. We will accept a Thursday weigh in if you know you will be gone for some reason. We will not be accepting any earlier weigh ins than a Thursday as we don't want to shorten the time frame and encourage any crash dieting or unhealthy habits in a desperate attempt to make weight too early. So, Friday is the day with Thursday as the only alternative. Please email on Thursday that you won't be around Friday for weigh in so we don't miss you somehow.

Stay tuned later for more important weight loss tips for you to consider for your weekend! And keep adding to the recipe post from yesterday, at the end of the Pool we may even have enough to print up some Pool cookbooks!