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Editor's Note: Daily Courier reporter concludes the 11-week Highlands Hospital Health Challenge.

Old B horror movies sometimes closed with "The End." That's how I feel about the Highlands Health Challenge. The jumpstart has ended, and the experience created two monster exercise enthusiasts, Bryan and me.

This week marked the final weigh-ins of the challenge. The team-based contest lasted 11 weeks, from Jan. 19 until Thursday. The first week established our base weights. The new challenge is to individually keep the weight off through late September.

Challenge organizers ended this phase with facts on fad diets and healthy weekends.

When I was young, my mom had a book by comic Totie Fields (1930-1978), called "I Think I'll Start on Monday: The Official 8 1/2 Ounce Mashed Potato Diet." The only thing I remember about the book is an illustration of bathroom graffiti that included this: "Jean Nidetch sneaks Pop-Tarts." Nidetch founded Weight Watchers.

Fields fought obesity all her life, and once said, "I've been on a diet for two weeks, and all I've lost is 14 days."

Her act often centered about her weight and wild efforts she tried to become slim. For those of us embarking on the long, strange trip of lifetime wellness, fad diets do not belong.

A handout called "Why Are Fad Diets an Unhealthy Way of Losing Weight" put them into perspective. "In most cases, only 5 percent of dieters manage to keep their lost weight off," reports the American Council on Exercising. "The tried-and-true method of weight loss, followed by most of the 5,000-plus members of the National Weight Control Registry -- a group of successful dieters who have kept off an average of 66 pounds for at least five years -- is calorie restriction coupled with regular exercise."

I once fasted in high school for religious reasons but have never tried a fad diet for weight loss. I do remember some friends' mothers (never fathers) trying the liquid protein diet and felt alarm when news reports said the nutrient-deficient diet had killed some people. None of my friends' moms died, but I don't remember them keeping weight off, either.

Challenge organizing committee member Marcy Ozorowski has tried fad diets. "I tried the skinny soup diet and ones that had you eating only one food a day then switching to another. They were awful and didn't work."

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The end is here and she loses more than 11 pounds

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