The Oklahoma City Diet

What is the recipe for success in this great diet?

Getting the whole city involved to collectively lose weight.  And it looks like it’s achieving some great results.

In response to the obesity epidemic in America, Mayor Mick Cornett put Oklahoma City ‘on a diet’ in December 2007, launching this website to help people with motivation, information and resources, events and build community interest in choosing healthier lifestyles. 

The Mayor set the community goal of losing 1 million pounds as a city.  Now the 'This City is Going on a Diet' site has almost 41,000 participants who have already contributed to an overall weight loss of 531,122 pounds (an average of almost 13 pounds per person).

With this initiative, The Mayor hopes to bring awareness to the problem of obesity, “introduce programs to help cure it, and inspire all citizens to become healthier and lose weight”.

  

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