Saturday marked the end of the L.E.A.N. Challenge for hundreds of city of Savannah employees.
The city partnered with the YMCA of Coastal Georgia and Healthy Savannah to encourage employees and their families to embrace healthy nutritional habits and physical activity, and in just eight weeks, participants lost more than 1,000 pounds.
Paula Kreissler, a volunteer with Healthy Savannah, said the city will be sponsoring a free community-wide L.E.A.N. Challenge in September, after seeing the success of the employees.
“L.E.A.N. stands for leadership, exercise, activity and nutrition, so the goal is to have people take a leadership role in their lives to do exercise and eat healthier,” Kreissler said.
“We want the healthy choice to be the easy choice.”