The 2022 Marathon Meltdown is in the books, and it’s finally time to celebrate our winners. For 11 challenging weeks, 39 contestants, split among 13 teams, watched their diets and amped up their exercises in an effort to shed some extra weight just in time for summer. Below are the final standings for the 2022 Meltdown, ranked by the sum of all team members’ body weight losses (in percentages). Congratulations to all our contestants, and see you next year!
TEAM STANDINGS
- Wii Not Fit – 36.2%
- Sassy By Summer – 32.3%
- Tons of Fun – 30.4%
- Locked & Bloated – 21.5%
- Cardio Barbies – 21.0%
- Team Less is More – 19.7%
- Air Bellies – 14.6%
- Slim-O-Knockers – 12.8%
- Lift It to Lose It – 8.3%
- Oversize Highway – 7.5%
- Time Out Toners – 6.4%
- Waisting Away Again in Margaritaville – 5.8%
- Make It Happen – 0.2%
INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS – MALE
- Paul Lebo – 14.5%
- John Gates – 10.5%
- Bruce Franck – 8.7%
INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONS – FEMALE
- Nicole Petrick – 18.2%
- Teresa Smith-Horachek – 13.4%
- Malinda Lebo – 12.9%
OTHER AWARDS
Greatest BMI Drop – Nicole Petrick
Largest 1-Week Weight Drop – Paul Lebo (8.3 pounds)
Most Enthusiastic – Melissa Cartan
Ferris Bueller Award (Most Missed Weigh-Ins) – Lynny Thompson
Atlas Award – Viviana Torres (lost 5.4% more than anyone else on her team)
If You Had Fun, You Won Award – Make it Happen (0.2% total lost among all 3 team members)
Baptist Health Education Seminars Leader – Wii Not Fit
BY THE NUMBERS
Though it wasn’t easy, the sacrifices made by Meltdown participants undoubtedly paid off. We crunched the numbers, and…
437.8 – pounds lost by all Meltdown participants combined
11.2 – average loss, in pounds, per contestant
5.4% – average body weight loss in percentage
70 – points dropped by all contestants on the BMI scale. For reference, that’s enough of a drop to go from “obese” to “normal” on the BMI scale more than 13 times.
1.79 – average drop per contestant on the BMI scale
