UNM’s Employee Health Promotion Program celebrates winners of the second UNM Biggest Loser Challenge as it launches UNM on the Move, a free, pedometer-based walking program on Monday, May 14, at noon in SUB Lobo rooms A&B.
Photo: Della Daniel, clinical education, University Hospital, is named UNM's Biggest Loser by Employee Health Promotion Program Manager Nicholas Spezza. Daniel lost 20 pounds during EHPP's 12-week weight loss challenge.
Refreshments and a limited amount of free pedometers for UNM employees will be supplied. The EHPP team will lead a 15-minute group walk at 12:40 leaving from the SUB. The event falls on the first day of Employee Health and Fitness Week and kicks off the EHPP summer fitness schedule.
Biggest Loser Challenge 2007, a 12-week weight loss challenge, began in January and offered nutrition, health education and fitness classes as well as e-mail support for those who participated.
UNM on the Move is a walking program open to all UNM employees designed to get people to move more, make good eating choices and log steps on the EHPP Web site. UNM employees who complete the 10-week program will be eligible to win a Fitness Assessment from the Exercise Physiology Lab and two sessions with an EHPP Personal Trainer.
For more information visit EHPP.
Media Contact: Laurie Mellas, (505) 277-5915; e-mail: lmellas@unm.edu