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Feb 13

VIDEO: Top 10 to compete in Slim-to-Win contest

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By RYAN BERLIN
@RBerlin_MSun

(This article has been corrected to change the total amount lost by initial participants to 2. 7 tons, not 97 tons. -Ed.)

In the first month of competing in the Morey Courts Slim-to-Win contest, 542 participants lost a total of 2.7 tons.

After a month of working out by themselves, the top 10 finalists were announced on Thursday morning.

"That was a hard first month. You put a lot of effort into it and you don't really think about making the top 10. I knew I had a good number but I didn't know how other people were doing," finalist and Mid-Michigan associate professor Jeff Percha said.

"I didn't really know where I stood on it. (Finding out I was a finalist) was kind of a relief but at the same time, now we start again."

Joining Percha in the quest for $10,000 are Martin Brock, Doug Carey, Tim Daugherty, Rickey Hickey, Richard Lowe, Brian Maxon, Morgan Meier, Brian Tunge and Annie Vanderwater.

Finalists were selected by most amount of total

body fat percentage lost. Body fat percent lost for all 10 finalists ranged from 12 percent to 15 percent.

Percha made the cut by losing 13.9 percent. One month ago he weighed in at 325 pounds. At the last weigh-in he was down to 280. Continued...

"I started out at a very high weight, almost 325. For quite awhile it didn't really register that I was losing weight at all. Obviously you step up the workouts and you start to really train," Percha said. "I'm 50 so it has been a lot of years since I have been in that mode and you start to see your endurance pick up and your clothes fit a little better.

"When you're out of shape you think about every move you make. You can't just get out of a chair, you can't just turn, you can't just pivot, you have to think about all that. And all of a sudden it didn't hurt as much as it did before and I was able to do things that I hadn't been able to do before and that was inspiring. It made me want to do more."

Percha will now get his chance to do more. Being named a Slim-to-Win top 10 finalist allows him to have one visit with a dietitian and one visit with a doctor from McLaren-Central Michigan. Morey Courts will also be offering the finalists one training session with a personal trainer as well as a month-long membership to Morey Courts.

At the end of 30 days, the contestants will weigh in again and the finalists will be widdled down to four. Six weeks after that a final weigh in will take place and a winner will be announced on April 22.

Percha is going to take it one day at a time and do the best he can. Win or lose, he feels like a winner.

"If you lay out a program, as I'm sure the other nine finalists have done, part of it is diet and part of it is some kind of activity. It's a simple equation, you have to burn off more than you take in and you have to do it safely," Percha said.

"I had made the decision to lose weight in mid December. I cut out fast food and I quit drinking pop. The competitive side of me wants to win it all but as a realist, I don't know the other people that are in it and I don't know what my limitations are.

"The bigger picture is that I am 50 years old and I was over 300 pounds and I am not going to live a lot longer than 50 in that condition. Regardless of what happens in a month, yeah I am going to stay with it."

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