DietBet!

"DietBet: Lose weight with friends while taking their money!"

Seriously, with a name and slogan like that, what's not to love? 

So, I have an addiction...to losing weight. I wish I could say I was addicted to being healthy, but my binges on ANYTHING dessert-esque will not allow me to. I will admit, I'm blaming it mostly on the recent holidays...I'm pretty good about not buying "bad" things AKA candy, ice cream etc. But when it gets sent home with me, it's just not fair! 

Back to the addiction. I recently discovered this website called DietBet. It's pretty legit. Basically, you pay $25 and if you lose 4% of your starting body weight in 4 weeks, you get your money back. The fun part is that you can do it with friends, strangers, anyone really and all the money goes into a pot. If one person doesn't meet the 4% loss goal, you get more than $25 back! So, you get paid to lose weight! I heard about this through KlutchClub(a monthly subscription club I used to subscribe to) and since the pot is currently $6125, I figured I really couldn't lose. Now I have four weeks to lose 5 pounds. Ug, that means I have to be really good about my diet again! Boo...hiss...

Good thing I like healthy foods, and exercising! To kick things off I went for a four mile run today! That is the longest distance I've ever run :) Felt pretty good, exhausting, but good. 

In other news, I decided on a reward system to keep me blogging! Each blog = $1 in a jar. At the end of the month I'll add $10 to the jar IF and only if I posted 10 or more blogs that month! At the end of the year, I will crack into the jar and buy myself whatever I've been wanting with no feelings of guilt! I'll be sure to include pictures of the jar once it's a pretty and decorated! For now, I'm off to relax and probably fall asleep early thanks to that run...

Thanks for reading!

Lauren