KC Slimdown Update

The Employer Challenge Will Remain Open for Enrollment – Due to the fantastic response Cerner is going to keep the Employer Challenge open for people to join. 

·         Players joining from now until the end of the competition will have unofficial start weights in Cerner Health Wins, but their pounds will go toward helping you achieve your Goal.

First, Log in.

In order to ensure that you are on Team UMKC, when you click on "competitions", please make sure that you see UMKC in the KC Slimdown Employer Challenge area (Like the picture shows above).

If you don't see UMKC, you are not on team UMKC and need to join.

Speaker Spotlight: Allison Kramer

Alison Kramer joined the UMKC Swinney Recreation Center in October 2009 as the Wellness Coordinator.  Prior to joining the UMKC staff, she worked at a corporate fitness center and at a local community center teaching aerobics classes and doing personal training.  She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Health Fitness in Preventive and Rehabilitative Programs at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.  She has her personal trainer and group exercise instructor certifications from the American Council on Exercise (ACE). 

Schedule Of Events

Schedule of Events

Volker Sessions

Hospital Hill Sessions

Speaker Spotlight: William (Bill) Smith

Bill Smith joined Student Health and Wellness in January 2007 as the health educator. Prior to joining the UMKC staff, he served as a health educator at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. He has been working in the area of college health education since June 2000 with focus areas in sexual health, alcohol and other drugs, and stress management. He received his Bachelor of Social Work at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas (2000) and his Masters in Management from Baker University in Overland Park, KS (2003). He is a member of the American College Health Association (ACHA) and is the current Region II Representative to the ACHA Board of Directors. Bill serves as the Missouri Member-at-Large on the Central College Health Association Executive Board. He is currently the NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education Region IV-W Representative for Veterans Issues. Bill is also the Secretary for College Educators for Veterans in Higher Education, Inc. He is also the staff advisor to the UMKC Student Veterans Organization. Bill is a US Army combat Veteran serving from 1989 – 1992. He was deployed with the 1^st Infantry Division (The Big Red One) during Operations Desert Shield & Storm (1990-1991) and is the recipient of The Bronze Star Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal w/3 Bronze Stars, Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait), Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia), Army Achievement Medal, and National Defense Service Medal.

Swiney Rec Center Indoor Track

Surprise Surprise Surprise!!

For the duration of UMKC Forever Fit, any employee who is participating in the events (KC Slimdown or Forever Fit) will be able to use the Swiney Rec Center indoor track for FREE from 11am-3pm.

In order to get an accurate list of everyone who would like to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity, I will be using the sign in sheets to the first event as a preliminary roster. If you did not sign in, and want to use the indoor track, let me know.

Community Team Survey

New Life

Nathan's Angels

The Dental Divas

Dental Divas

Pound-Dropping Divas

Bloch School Fit and Fabulous

Fit Fab Four

Team FIT

Lady Roos

HR R.O.C.K.S

Slimpossibles

Thick Figure to Stick Figure

Busting Brunettes

The 6 Packs

Shake-N-Bake

Mission SLIMpossible!

Brost Belly Busters

The Chicken Dinners

Vincent Van Gogh

UMKC SHW- Go Team!

Voluptuous Volker Vixens

Volker Vixens

Fox and Vixens

Here are all of the UMKC community teams that I am aware of. If your team is not on the list, please let me know so that we can put your team in the rankings when the competition starts!

Picture Update- Hospital Hill Weigh in Day

We have reached 100 KC Slimdown Participants!

Team UMKC (KC Slimdown) has reached it's goal of 100 participants!! Congrats to all who have joined. We hope to continue climbing past 100! I am proud that we have so many people willing to commit to wellness! This will be a great 10 weeks.

Weigh In Dates

Registration for the KC Slimdown has begun. Please ensure that you sign up and join team UMKC and if you plan to, join/create your community team.

(Please email me if you have any questions, need assistance or unsure if you have joined or not)

Official UMKC Weigh-In dates

Hospital Hill Campus

Thurday, July 14^th, 2011

8:00am-5:00pm

School of Dentistry, Room 250

Volker Campus

Wednesday, July 20^th, 2011

8:00am-5:00pm

Student Union Theater Lobby

Please bring your Cerner ID Card (See attached) & a Photo ID to weigh-ins

Weigh-in instructions can be found on our website.  If you are not able to make it to an official UMKC weigh-in, but would still like to participate in the KC Slimdown Challenge, please visit a KC Metro area YMCA with your Cerner Health Card between now and July 24^th.

Please note: I will use this email distribution list as my main form of contact for UMKC Forever Fit and/or KC Slimdown Challenge Information, if you know anyone who is not getting this email or wish to be excluded from further emails, please let me know so I can update the list.  Don’t forget to check out the KC Slimdown Challenge and Forever Fit Blog. 

Note on KC Slimdown Registration

Team UMKC is now up!

When you sign up, you should be able to locate it and join it.

 For those of you who are going to be a part of a community team as well, Please remember, the team captain has to create that team first before you can join!
To make everything easy create your account here, once you make your account you can join the competitions by clicking the competition button and join the employer competition (UMKC) and if applicable, join your community.

If there are any questions call me at 816-235-5818 or email me @ sansberryk@umkc.edu and I will walk you through

KC Slimdown Registration is Live!!

Please visit the KC Slimdown website to register!

During registration all team leaders will need to create their community team so that the rest of the members  of their team may join. Everyone should join the UMKC employer team so that we can show Kansas City who the real winners are!

Feel free to leave a comment

KC Slimdown Teams

It is time to build your teams!

Monday, July 11th 2011 will open up registration for the KC Slimdown. However, a lot of employees are just now hearing about the program and don't have teams! Additionally, there may be some team captains out there struggling to fill some spots on their teams. Whatever team-related problems you may have, I want to help!

If you are needing a team or you have a team with open spots that need to be filled, feel free to comment on this post and explain your situation. Please include your email address so that other participants can contact you.

Good Luck!

KC Slimdown Information

Registration
Registration begins on Monday, July 11th. So please register ASAP.

Regarding Teams
You will need a team captain to first create your community team, after the team is created by the team captain all other memebers will be able to search for and join the team.

I will be creating the UMKC employer team first-thing monday morning so please join that as your employer team.

Weigh In Information
If you want to get your weigh-in completed early, Starting on monday, you can visit any YMCA in the Kansas City area and weigh in on the KC Slimdown scales that they willl have on site. Otherwise, you can simply wait until Cerner comes to our campuses with their scales.

UMKC Official Weigh-in Days
For those who would rather not go to a YMCA to get their official weight proctored can weigh in on one of our official weigh in days. Cerner will be bringing kiosks to both hospital hill and volker campuses to facilitate weigh-ins! Please bring a photo ID & Your Cerner Card (Printed off from account)

For those who pre-register (Register before coming to weigh in) will be entered into a drawing for $100!

Weigh-In Schedule (On Campus)

Hospital Hill Campus- July 14th, 8:00am-5:00pm, Dental School Building Room 250.

Volker Campus- July 20th, 8:00am- 5:00pm, Student Union Theater Lobby.

More information can be found here