Which drink has the most Sugar??

Most of you know that 2 days a week I drive to a place where I do on-site health coaching for a company who uses our services. They have me working on-site there because the company's employees are so unhealthy that their company can't afford to keep the same health insurance for more than a year. Ironically, the company is a plant that produces heart catheters. Most of them will probably end up using this very product they are producing.

Anyway, as their on-site Health Coach, I am always trying to think of new and interactive ways to get my message across.

(For most of these people my message is simple: lose weight.)

So this last week I decided to tackle one of my beefs with these people.

Soda.

And sugary drinks in general. These guys drink TONS of the stuff.

So a while back Tyler posted a picture on my facebook of a display of different drinks with baggies underneath filled with how much sugar each one had. You may have seen it. I loved it. I wish I had thought of it myself. But I knew I was going to have to re-create it at some point for my participants.

(We call our clients "participants" because they participate in our program.)

So my dream finally came to fruition and I created my version of the sugary drinks poster. Tyler helped a lot too. He's much better at logistic and details so he measured all the lines for me and figured out how to get the sugar baggies on there securely and stuff like that.

It was actually kind of fun to make it. And I felt like I was in high school again.

Poster board, markers, tape, a ruler... this had high school poster project all over it. 

So, after this long explanation, here it is, our poster!

This is the display set up at location.

We played a game where they had to guess the order of drinks from most sugary to least. I gave $10 to anyone who could get it right.

(Nobody got it right so I ended up awarding money to who got closest.)

It ended up being a big hit. Though I've talked about how much sugar is in soda and other drinks countless times, this seemed to really hit home for these guys when there were able to see the visual. I even had one lady tell me two days later that she hadn't had one soda since my presentation. Nice!