On one fine day, people in my office came up with a challenge. The challenge conditions were something as described below –
THE CHALLENGE – I Sachin, should reduce my weight by 2.5Kgs in 2 weeks failing which I would be treating 5people from Appoint for a big budget 1k treat. If I succeed in reducing my weight as challenged, then those 5people would treat me everyday for a whole week estimating budget of Rs200 per head. A weighing machine near our office was chosen to check the weight after 2 weeks to maintain the consistency.
I was confident of myself winning because of two reasons. First, out of the 2 weeks, 2nd week I was supposed to be traveling to my native place by driving in my own car. Driving usually reduces weight (I know… debatable). Then secondly, in native place, usually we can’t have lots of food because of high humidity. The humidity helps in sweating and thus reducing the weight. So considering these two strong points, I accepted the challenge. And then out of curiosity I just asked my fellow mate about the possibility of me winning this challenge and the reply was immediate… “NO CHANCE”. On asking the reason, he said, for reducing 2.5 kgs even by going to Gym and having normal diet will take a month easily. In 2 weeks, it can be possible only if I starve for 2-3 days and then have normal diet. This was a killer blow to my hopes of winning. Now I dint have a choice but to consider losing or starve (Which was never going to happen). Then I tried for different plans, like setting the initial weight on weighing machine show reduced weight by taking help of shop keeper. Since it was an electronic weighing machine, people would not know.
Then the time came when I was traveling to native place. The things got worse when people started giving more food and we had no choice but to have it. My confidence was slowly reducing… Now I was looking at the prospect of losing the bet…I had to do something… quickly… This was just a thought and I couldn’t do anything so quickly anyway. So the day came when I was back in Bangalore and the winner would be decided by lunch break. I knew I had lost the bet, so I waited for the inevitable.
Interestingly there was a twist in the tale. All people involved in the bet were supposed to be present when I would check my weight, but ultimately due to various reasons, only me and one of my colleague ended up for checking the weight. I saw mine first, and as expected, I had reduced by only 1kg. Then my colleague saw his weight, and would u believe it, he was actually around 2.3 kgs less than me. Well I made a pact with him and got a snap of his weight from the weighing machine. So here was my plan, I would show that I have reduced 3.3 kgs in 2 weeks and ofcourse for supporting my lie, I would treat my colleague twice for 100 bucks each. That deal worked out awesomely well. Everyone in Office could not believe about my weight loss and I had to cook up a story saying I had only one time food for last 3 days… etc etc. Finally at the end, I was treated by all people for the whole of one week. The next week, I and my colleague were sitting in some restaurant pondering over how we had managed to win the challenge out of the blue and grab a treat from others. This remains a secret until now, hope noone from our office reads this blog… ;)
THE CHALLENGE – I Sachin, should reduce my weight by 2.5Kgs in 2 weeks failing which I would be treating 5people from Appoint for a big budget 1k treat. If I succeed in reducing my weight as challenged, then those 5people would treat me everyday for a whole week estimating budget of Rs200 per head. A weighing machine near our office was chosen to check the weight after 2 weeks to maintain the consistency.
I was confident of myself winning because of two reasons. First, out of the 2 weeks, 2nd week I was supposed to be traveling to my native place by driving in my own car. Driving usually reduces weight (I know… debatable). Then secondly, in native place, usually we can’t have lots of food because of high humidity. The humidity helps in sweating and thus reducing the weight. So considering these two strong points, I accepted the challenge. And then out of curiosity I just asked my fellow mate about the possibility of me winning this challenge and the reply was immediate… “NO CHANCE”. On asking the reason, he said, for reducing 2.5 kgs even by going to Gym and having normal diet will take a month easily. In 2 weeks, it can be possible only if I starve for 2-3 days and then have normal diet. This was a killer blow to my hopes of winning. Now I dint have a choice but to consider losing or starve (Which was never going to happen). Then I tried for different plans, like setting the initial weight on weighing machine show reduced weight by taking help of shop keeper. Since it was an electronic weighing machine, people would not know.
Then the time came when I was traveling to native place. The things got worse when people started giving more food and we had no choice but to have it. My confidence was slowly reducing… Now I was looking at the prospect of losing the bet…I had to do something… quickly… This was just a thought and I couldn’t do anything so quickly anyway. So the day came when I was back in Bangalore and the winner would be decided by lunch break. I knew I had lost the bet, so I waited for the inevitable.
Interestingly there was a twist in the tale. All people involved in the bet were supposed to be present when I would check my weight, but ultimately due to various reasons, only me and one of my colleague ended up for checking the weight. I saw mine first, and as expected, I had reduced by only 1kg. Then my colleague saw his weight, and would u believe it, he was actually around 2.3 kgs less than me. Well I made a pact with him and got a snap of his weight from the weighing machine. So here was my plan, I would show that I have reduced 3.3 kgs in 2 weeks and ofcourse for supporting my lie, I would treat my colleague twice for 100 bucks each. That deal worked out awesomely well. Everyone in Office could not believe about my weight loss and I had to cook up a story saying I had only one time food for last 3 days… etc etc. Finally at the end, I was treated by all people for the whole of one week. The next week, I and my colleague were sitting in some restaurant pondering over how we had managed to win the challenge out of the blue and grab a treat from others. This remains a secret until now, hope noone from our office reads this blog… ;)
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