On January 17, four teams of Grunau employees, a total of 27 people, volunteered to start losing weight. The teams were comprised of employees from different functional areas and with varying levels of responsibility and seniority, which has helped build camaraderie throughout the company. Each team's hope was to be the team to drop the largest percentage of weight in three months and be named Grunau's "2005 Biggest Losers." The team names were "Weight and See," "The Fat Pack," "Been There, Done Fat," and "Six Pack."
The results are in from the April 18 final weigh-in. The winning team was "Been There, Done Fat," consisting of participants Lisa Smith, Dave Brown, Carmen Vazquez, Don Mateicka Jr., Sharon Marifke, Christine Owens, and Brian Zwiebel. Their total team weight loss was 5.9 percent or 81 pounds (an average of 11.5 pounds per person over four months). The biggest single loser was Eric Bobinski with a total weight loss of 28 pounds.