Have you ever started a New Year’s resolution but stopped 3 weeks in? If so, then you’re like the 95% of Americans who have trouble sticking to their resolutions or achieving their goals and you may benefit from Healthywage, www.healthywage.com. Academic research in the New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that small monetary incentives can triple the effectiveness of weight loss programs. Healthywage applies this research and allows all Americans to get paid for getting healthy. We offer the following four ways for you to make money by losing weight or by helping your friends lose weight:
BMI Challenge pays $100 to Americans who lose weight in 2010. You only have to record your weight on the website once per week and have a healthy weight (Body Mass Index below 25) on December 30, 2010. The money comes from corporate sponsors interested in empowering you to improve your health.
SuperSizer program allows you to “bet” on your ability to lose weight. Pay $150 or $300 to get paid $450 or $1000 for losing weight. The payments for losing weight come out of HealthyWage’s advertising and sponsorship earnings. The SuperSizer program is the only American opportunity for you to “bet” on your ability to lose weight. A similar program in the United Kingdom, Weight Wins, pays British dieters for losing weight. The Weight Wins program was designed after research funded by the UK National Health Service showed that money can be highly effective at motivating weight loss. Analogous programs in the U.S. are Stickk and Fatbet.net. These companies advertise that they allow you to bet on your ability to lose weight—however, none of them actually pay you additional money to lose weight.
America’s Top Motivator rewards the person whose friend’s lose the most weight in the BMI Challenge. You friends just need to designate you as their “Motivator” on healthywage. You will be rewarded for encouraging and helping them achieve their weight loss goals (the winner gets $1 for each pound lost by their friends). The Top Motivator program was designed after research in the New England Journal of Medicine by Harvard professor Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D demonstrated the important role that social networks play in the spread of obesity. He showed that if your friends of friends gained weight, you were likely to gain weight. Consequently, it is hypothesized that if your friends of friends lose weight, you will also lose weight.
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The Weekly Weigh-in celebrates your success at continuing your diet each week. Our sponsors provide product giveaways and prizes to reward you for continuing your weight loss journey. The Weigh-in is at 10:00 pm ET on Tuesdays–right after NBC’s Biggest Loser Appears on TV. Follow your favorite cast members and report your weight loss success weekly at healthywage.
Many of us are trying to lose weight in 2010. Make your New Year’s resolutions stick with the social support and the cash rewards at healthywage. In this tough economy, take time to focus on our health. Use healthywage’s sponsors and cash rewards to motivate yourself to take control of your weight loss journey. Look great, feel great, make new friends and get paid. You too can be a Biggest Loser cash prize winner. Celebrate your success and make money losing weight at www.healthywage.com
