Join Healthcare Systems Across the Country in the Million Pound Challenge
Lead the Wellness Revolution
The Million Pound Challenge invites employers nationwide to collectively lose one million pounds over the next year. Register your organization, provide your staff access to tools and support, and track progress together toward a shared goal.
Why Weight Loss?
Because it's at the center of everything we treat:
Chronic Disease
13 types of cancer driven by obesity, plus heart disease, stroke, arthritis
Diabetes
58% reduction in new diabetes cases with just 5-7% weight loss
Heart Health
80%+ of coronary heart disease patients have overweight or obesity
Toby Cosgrove and Dr. Michael Roizen Proved It
When their organization collectively lost one million pounds, providers became dramatically better at weight counseling, patient compliance improved, and prevention became credible— because their healthcare system embodied it.
If they can do it, so can you.
How It Works
Getting started takes minutes. Seeing results takes commitment. Changing healthcare culture? That's what we're here to do together.
Step 1: Enroll Your Org
Register your health system. Get access to a variety of resources in the Million Pound Challenge Tool Kit for your entire team.
Step 2: Your Staff, Your Way
Employees can use the tools provided, join their own programs, work with providers—whatever works. Your organization decides how to structure participation.
Step 3: Track Progress
The only requirement? Track results with a monthly check with your Challenge coordinator. Watch as individual effort becomes collective momentum toward one million pounds.
Quarterly Celebrations
Measure your organization's progress, celebrate your success stories, and recognize your top-performing teams. Join leaders at quarterly events, Chamber Summit, Aspen Ideas Festival, and HLTH to keep momentum strong.
The Finish Line
After 12 months, we'll have collectively proven what we've known all along—that sustainable health outcomes are achievable. Winners celebrated at HLTH 2026. Every organization recognized for leading the revolution.
Why This Matters
We're asking our employees to prioritize their health every single day. To change their habits. To believe that transformation is possible.
But do we support it ourselves?
When organizations invest in employee wellness, something fundamental shifts. Burnout decreases. Engagement increases. Health stops being an individual responsibility and becomes a shared commitment.
This isn't just about losing weight. It's about showing our people they matter. It's about demonstrating—not just stating—that our organization's success depends on the wellbeing of every person who works here.
Healthier Employees. Stronger Organizations. Prevention that Works.
Employers across the country are ready to prove that prevention works from the inside out.
Register your organization. Rally your teams. Track your progress toward a shared goal.
This is our moment to lead the wellness revolution.
About The Challenge
The Million Pound Challenge brings healthcare organizations and mission-aligned partners together to strengthen employee wellness and champion prevention from within. Through supportive tools, community connection, and simple tracking, participating organizations work toward a shared one-million-pound milestone by the end of 2026. The challenge turns personal progress into organizational impact and helps all members model the culture of wellbeing they aim to inspire across the communities they serve.