My Weight Loss Blog

Sounds too good to be true, right? Apparently some bosses will gladly pay their overweight employees some money to lose weight. My boss will probably not be one of them.. correction : definitely not be one of them. Everyone knows money motivates people, and a new study confirms it yet again – this time as a tool to get people to lose weight. I suppose you could see the financial compensation as an investment of a company in their employees. Healthy, fit people will usually be more productive. Me personally, I do give myself some presents if I reach a certain weight loss target. It does work, I suggest you try it!

George.

“Lots of companies are experimenting with rewarding people for weight loss, and this study provides evidence that paying people to lose weight works,” says Eric Finkelstein, a health economist with RTI International, a non-profit research organization in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

He teamed with researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to recruit more than 200 overweight or obese employees in North Carolina. A third were given no financial reward for their weight loss after three months; a third were given $7 for every 1% drop in their body weight; a third were given $14 for every 1% decrease. The participants were not given a structured diet and fitness program.

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You know, my wish is to lose a decent amount of weight. I really don’t have to look like the Hulk to feel comfortable. But the video below shows that through weight training you can lose weight and build muscles. I don’t remember my wife ever mentioning whether she likes muscular men… but I’d bet she’d love to see me in great shape. So I’ll be following some of the videos on Youtube and put them on here for you guys to view as well. My wife has been viewing gardening videos on YouTube for a year now, and finally showed me the unbelievable amount of videos on there. I am hooked!

Speak to you later.

George.