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As a geek — or Über geek — I’ve noticed myself becoming more and more rotund. Since I used to be an athlete and very active during my childhood and through high school my shape and weight are starting to annoy me. Colin Devroe and Chris Fehnel feel the same way.

After some discussion we thought it would be great to challenge each other — geeks always love a challenge right? So we begin our challenge tomorrow, May 30th, 2006.

Colin and myself will be taking pictures of our rotundness and posting them on flickr as well as our websites — hopefully Chris and others will as well. We’ll also be making mention of our current stats — ladies beware, this may come as a shock — including weight, height, waist size in inches and possibly our BMI’s.

Since our current weights and goals are different the “winner” will probably have to be chosen arbitrarily. We all have different goals for what we want to accomplish and we will all be using different methods to reach those goals.

In the end we’re using this as a way to motivate and challenge each other with the end goal that we all succeed. When that happens watch out ladies, we can’t be held responsible the insatiable lust you may have for us.

We’ll all be posting weekly status updates on our blogs — Colin, Chris and myself. We don’t really have a definite timeframe for how long this will go on but I expect it to be in the “months”.

I’m not sure about the other guys but I’ll also be posting what I’m doing to lose the weight, how close or far I am from achieving my goals and how I plan on maintaining once I’ve met my target goals.

Want to join in the fun? Here’s how you can participant.