Incentives to Lose Weight Works

Financial incentives to lose weight do work, it appears, at least in the short run.

Motivation might be boosted with a financial award that you plan for yourself if you succeed or a financial penalty if you don’t.

Try duplicating a University of Pennsylvania study that had 50 percent of participants succeeding in losing 16 lb. in 16 weeks with this technique.

Some winners chose the forfeit money route, while others went for the award. The figure that worked: about $300.

From February 2009 Newsletter

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