06-01-2009, 06:09 AM
Take a gamble
People bet on the horses, football, basketball, and pretty much any sport in between. So why not bet on weight loss? That’s what over a 1,000 dieters in the United Kingdom have signed up for on the StickK website.
The American based start-up was created last year by two Yale professors who wanted to help people achieve their goals and objectives by enabling them to form Commitment Contracts.
Dieters in the UK have been joining up and betting on their ability to lose a specified amount of weight in a specified time frame. If you don’t succeed, you lose money.
But you don’t just lose a designated amount of money. The money that you lose is paid to a charity that you nominated when you join up.
But wait, there’s a twist. You have to nominate a charity that you would ...
Posted on Sun, 24 May 2009 10:49:24 +0100 at http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/bett...ight-loss/
Author: Healthbolt
Comments: http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441257
People bet on the horses, football, basketball, and pretty much any sport in between. So why not bet on weight loss? That’s what over a 1,000 dieters in the United Kingdom have signed up for on the StickK website.
The American based start-up was created last year by two Yale professors who wanted to help people achieve their goals and objectives by enabling them to form Commitment Contracts.
Dieters in the UK have been joining up and betting on their ability to lose a specified amount of weight in a specified time frame. If you don’t succeed, you lose money.
But you don’t just lose a designated amount of money. The money that you lose is paid to a charity that you nominated when you join up.
But wait, there’s a twist. You have to nominate a charity that you would ...
Posted on Sun, 24 May 2009 10:49:24 +0100 at http://www.blisstree.com/healthbolt/bett...ight-loss/
Author: Healthbolt
Comments: http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441257