When was the last time you went to a bowling party? If you were one of our Be Well Philly Office Challenge contestants, it was Wednesday night at our awesome end-of-contest bash.

Our teams gathered at Lucky Strike Lanes to celebrate the Office Challenge and find out who won. Some clues:

• Our winning team had a soda-related nickname for themselves (seriously!).
• They lost 219.4 pounds.
• They were one of our suburban competitors.

Give up? Go over here to see who took home the grand prize—plus, check out a ton of photos from our event.

Congrats to everyone who participated! You did it!

I can’t believe how fast these last eight weeks have flown by. Tomorrow marks the end of our second Be Well Philly Office Challenge. And while our teams’ final weigh-in number are trickling in (the big reveal will happen next week, folks!), I wanted to take a step back from the scale and find out what our players are taking away from the contest—the lessons they’ve learned and the health-boosting habits (I hope) they’ll take well beyond this eight-week contest.

Check out some of their answers over here. You never know—you might just get inspired to make some changes, too.

The Be Well Philly Office Challenge contestants received a crash course in super foods today—and just in the nick of time. With the contest ending on Friday, they’re in the do-or-die phase right now.

UnitedHealthcare’s Andie Rowe hosted a nutrition webinar today to encourage contestants to carry the lessons they’ve learned in the contest well beyond the Friday deadline. The easiest way to do it? Turn healthy-eating choices into healthy-eating habits.

Andie offered 10 super foods—ones that pack extra punches of fiber, antioxidants and healthy fats—for our contestants to start working into their diets every week. Check out her picks over here.

Want to keep track of all the Office Challenge fun? Join the conversation on Twitter by following@BeWellPhilly or search for the hashtag #BWPOfficeChallenge.

This morning on the Office Challenge blog, I profiled the Red Team’s Cindy Valerio, the only female member of the Tague Lumber Phoenixville contingent. See, the team’s divided between two locations (the other half is in Philly), and Cindy has taken it upon herself to make sure her guys stay in line.

Boy, has it worked. She reports that as of halfway through the competition, she and her four Phoenixville teammates lost a combined 98 pounds. Her secret? Lots of team bonding—they cook the weekly recipe together!—weekly check-ins and not-so-subtle reminders to make healthy choices.

Read more about what Cindy and her team have been doing over here. And catch up on the Office Challenge here.

Want to keep track of all the Office Challenge fun? Join the conversation on Twitter by following @BeWellPhilly or search for the hashtag #BWPOfficeChallenge.

I got a good laugh today writing the Office Challenge’s latest Contestant Spotlight post, in which I dissected a little bet going on between players on the Zarwin Baum team.

Then just as I hit publish, Nancy Landy, one of the Zarwin Baumers involved in the bet, sent me a poem. That she wrote. About the Office Challenge.

So I laughed again. Some of Nancy’s teammates on the Blue Team tell me she’s quite the trash-talker (all in good fun, of course), and her poem certainly doesn’t disappoint. Spoiler alert: She even works in the word “treadmill” (it rhymes with “fill”).

Well done, Nancy.

Go over here to read her, um, work of art.

Want to keep track of all the Office Challenge fun? Join the conversation on Twitter by following @BeWellPhilly or search for the hashtag #BWPOfficeChallenge.

Our Office Challenge contestants are in for a real treat this week. Their mission? To make a recipe for roasted turkey breast with grilled apples. Yum!

Here’s the best part: A serving has around 400 calories and almost 40 grams of protein—just what their slimming bodies need.

While our contestants are making the dish for bonus points on the Office Challenge contest, you should work the recipe into your routine, too. Get it right over here.

Want to keep track of all the Office Challenge fun? Join the conversation on Twitter by following @BeWellPhilly or search for the hashtag #BWPOfficeChallenge.

It didn’t take long for our smartphone-owning Office Challenge contestants to find apps and websites to help them lose weight. Such programs can use useful when it comes to tracking calories, logging workouts and getting inspired to stick with it. I wanted to know which apps are working for them—so I asked.

Go here to see our contestants’ picks, and let us know if you use an app that’s not on the list. We’re all ears!

Want to keep track of all the Office Challenge fun? Join the conversation on Twitter by following @BeWellPhilly or search for the hashtag #BWPOfficeChallenge.