A Crazy Idea

Tomorrow my Blog and Weight Loss Challenge will officially be one week old.  I want to thank all of you who have made a generous commitment to the Food Bank and me by pledging.

As of today there are 81 families who have pledged to the tune of, wait for it…$188 for every pound I lose.  That is heart warming.  I wish heart warming was more like fat melting and could help me drop the pounds, but I diverge.

I love reading the notes of which “Go Dana,”  is leading the pack as the most common comment; it starts to make me wonder where you all want me to go?  As I read I started to hatch this crazy idea.  What if I could get pledges totaling, now you really have to wait for it,  $1,000 per pound lost?  I know that is a ridiculous amount of money and I promise not to cut off a major limb, and all my limbs are major, just to get more money, but I think it is possible.

What does getting pledges of $1,00 mean?  IF you are reading this you have to pledge!  It means everyone I ever met has to pledge.  It means that even people I have never met need to pledge.  It means maybe Ellen DeGeneres would do something for the Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC, and she is way more generous than even Oprah.  Maybe we could get Ellen and Oprah to compete on giving to the Food Bank and then we could take bets on who would win.  Then maybe the FBI would get involved because I was running some kind of illegal betting scheme.  Then I might end up in the Federal Pen at Butner with Bernie Madoff.

Ok, I’m backing up to the $1,000 part.  Hey, don’t you want to be part of this Crazy Idea?  Its easy, just click on the Pledge Tab, right there at the top of this page.