downsize

Downsize Fitness, a Chicago-based, overweight-only gym, is upsizing in a hurry.

But Downsize Fitness, which requires members to be overweight, plans to make a profit by creating community.

Downsize wants to grow by opening gyms under its own name and ownership, rather than selling franchises and licenses.

Downsize has combined these three insights into a new business model.

To join Downsize, members must have at least 50 pounds of weight to lose.