Diet Vegas-style

Place A Bet On Your Diet Success

Sorry, but Vegas style dieting doesn’t include an actual weekend in Sin City.  Between the drinking and the hotel buffets, the gambling capital isn’t the best place for dieters. 

You don’t have to go to Vegas to bet on your diet success, and making this wager will actually help you shed pounds.

Here’s how to do it…

Make a bet a friend or loved one that you’ll reach a specific weight loss goal.

Putting pride and money on the line is a powerful formula for keeping up your motivation. A multi-center study following 57 dieters found that those who stood to lose money if they didn’t succeed in losing weight were almost five times as likely to reach their goal as those with no financial stake in the outcome.

And it doesn’t have to be money to work.  Make a bet with your husband (loser does laundry for a month) or a friend (loser buys dinner at the winner’s favorite restaurant.

The amount of weight loss should be realistically attainable, but challenging. The wager should be big enough that you won’t want to lose.

Having to check in with someone each week can help you stay on course and keeps things competitive in a light-hearted way.

If you’re a gambling fiend and want to really up the stakes, join a weight-loss betting site like stick.com or fatbet.net. These websites have regulated tens of thousands of weight-loss bets. Stick.com claims that 80 percent of extremely dedicated participants reach their goals. You can even register with friends or have your weekly results emailed to a designated crew of supporters.