How To Win

Register your team

Register your team and all team members on the WEHI website by the competition start date. Teams should have 7 members.

Complete blood tests and questionnaires

All team members must complete 3 blood tests for HbA1c and cholesterol, and complete the Start of Competition and End of Competition Questionnaire and 6 month Follow-up Questionnaire.

Participate in Challenges

There are two types of challenges, Daily Challenges and Weekly Challenges

Daily Challenges are completed individually and should be recorded in the WEHI diary. At the end of every week teams add up individual totals and enter to totals at http://wehi.nz (within 3 days of the end of the week)

The Daily Challenges are:

● Sugar-free Drink Day

● 3+ Vege Day

● Exercise Day

● ¼ ¼ ½ Dinner Day

● Fast & Fried-free Day

● Sweet Treat-free Day

● Stand Up Day

● Build Me Up Day

● Water First Day

Weekly Challenges are completed either as a team or individually (varies from week to week). Teams will receive their weekly challenges from their WEHI Regional Coordinator.

Win prizes!

Teams will compete for 3 prizes:

● Greatest progress at 2 months - $1,000

● Greatest progress at 4 months - $1,000

● Overall winner at 6 months - $3,000

Team progress and overall winner will be calculated as follows:

● Number of team members who have lost 4 or more than 4kg’s weight in the preceding two months PLUS

● Number of team members who have lost 3 or more than 3cm in waist circumference during the preceding two months PLUS

● The team’s position on the competition leader board based upon the teams’ participation and completion of daily and weekly challenges for each 2-month assessment period (lowest ranked position = 1 to highest ranked position = 7)

The team with the highest overall calculated score at the end of the competition period wins the prize. There will be a separate prize pool per region.

To be eligible for the 2-month and 4-month progress prizes all team members must have their weight and waist circumference measurements recorded by a WEHI Research Assistant within two weeks of the 2-month and 4-month mark and all Weekly and Daily Challenge results up to date on the WEHI website.

Rankings do not carry over into the next competition period. If more than one team draw, they will split the prize money. Cash prizes can only be awarded to an organisation that serves the wider community and is a current registered Incorporated Society or Charitable Trust.

For more information on prize conditions, please contact your WEHI Regional Coordinator.

Guidelines

A team and/or team member can be disqualified if they falsify or try to falsify results. If a team or team member is disqualified they can stay in the competition but will not be eligible for prizes.

No particular diet is prescribed. We do not encourage the use of supplements and hunger suppressants. Radical short-term approaches like extended periods of fasting or ‘fad’ diets are discouraged.

Team members are responsible for any/all costs associated with food, food preparation, exercise activities and meeting costs associated with ensuring their own health and safety during the competition.

The WEHI competition is not a substitute for direct, personal, professional medical care and diagnosis. The WEHI research team is not expected to diagnose, recognise or treat individual health problems that you may experience (or have experienced) prior to, or, during your participation in the competition.

Participants are responsible for, and, will, inform the WEHI research team of any doctor-directed exercise modifications or restrictions, all prescription medications, non-prescription medications and diet aids and supplements you are taking and any changes in dosage, on an ongoing basis, during the WEHI competition.

For a full list of competition guidelines, please contact your WEHI Regional Coordinator.