Participants shed 578 pounds in Lubbock 2012 GET FiT competition - LubbockOnline.com

Thirty-eight teams of at least four people lost 578 pounds this year during the GET FiT Lubbock challenge, which wrapped up Monday.

This was the fifth year for the campaign. Overall, participants have lost 13,578 pounds throughout the length of the program. Kristi Louder, unit coordinator for the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center’s Garrison Institute on Aging, said the program began in 2007.

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