Is the site truly legit? Does it really motivate you to lose weight? I decided to kickstart the new year with a determination to lose weight. I had a rough Fall 2018 and had packed on a lot of pounds and finally reached a point where I was mentally ready to do something about it. Then I started thinking about earning rewards or something from this - there was a local app that was heavily subsidized to offer free prizes as an incentive to get healthy. Why not get something free, right?
Well, turns out the subsidy ended and the app didn't look attractive enough anymore. Still, I started researching some more and came across HealthyWage. It sounded intriguing but I started wondering what crazy person would risk money to lose weight when the journey can sometimes be so unpredictable?
Then I started running the numbers on HealthyWage and started realizing the financial risk and incentive was actually changing my motivation and determination. I started off planning to lose maybe 10 lbs over 2-3 months and then just see what would happen next. As I crunched numbers on HealthyWage (your prize money is dependent on your stats, how much you want to lose, how much you put in, and how long you are giving yourself. You can put down as little as $100 over 6-18 months that you will lose a min 10% of your body weight), I started wanting to push myself harder. I ended up putting down SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS (now we are talking crazy money territory)! BUT, my payout will be $1080. So $480 or about 80% return for a commitment to lose 25lbs in 6 months. That's about 1 lb a week (especially since I did load up with water and dinner - adding about 4lbs to my weigh in that morning lol). I know that while it will be a long-term commitment for the whole 6 months, the number is doable for me.
Plus since I credit card hack, the $600 went towards one of my sign-up bonuses :) I was contemplating putting in more (advanced manufacturing spend lol!) but finally decided $600 was more than enough to risk and I should not be greedy.
I have 5 weeks in with 21 weeks to go and have already dropped 10 lbs. There have been a couple of times where I have been really tempted to give in to a binge but having HealthyWager at the back of my mind has really really helped keep me on track. Instead of binging, I ended up weighing out my desired junk food and logging it. (By the way, a shout out to MyFitnessPal. I use it to count calories and it makes all the difference for me. HealthyWager gives me the motivation, MyFitnessPal gives me the tools).
Anyway, if anyone is interested in trying it out, make sure you use a referral code as you get an extra $40 bonus (so if you put in $100 and get offered a $120 payout, your actual payout would be $160. Pretty sweet). My referral link is
https://hwage.co/574832/ (I also get a bonus).
Hope this helps someone!
