Biggest Loser - some questions

OK - So far we have Boyd & LeAnn, Dale, Jason, Brian & Kathy, Jeri, and me. For anyone still interested, you have until Monday to join up! This is going to be an individual competition, not families, and we start at our current weight as of Monday, 10/13.

Alrighty, now for the questions: Do you want to do this strictly on weight loss, or do we want to do a point system as well? What I mean is, we can set up goals and challenges that are worth so many points (like 8 glasses of water each day for a week = 10 points), so that we are calculating points earned as well as percentage of weight lost each week. Truly, the idea behind this is to develop healthy habits that will help keep the weight off, so I personally like the ideas of having goals and challenges to do each week. In the end, we could have a "points" winner and a "weight-lost" winner, or we could combine the two to have one really BIG loser/winner.

Also, do we want to send the money to a treasurer right away, as the game begins, or do we just agree to pay up on December 15th to whoever is the biggest loser? We were also wondering if we want to use some of the prize money to give out little prizes along the way - prizes for especially difficult weekly challenges, or a halfway-point winner's prize, or something like that. Lemme know what you think! This is going to be fun! I'm excited.

Gimme your ideas asap and I'll put together The Rules and post them here and email them out to everybody before the week is done.