The Good: At the end of one month, I came in .5kg under my goal weight. Woo!
The Bad: I'm oddly self-destructive. I started this site a week after I had officially begun losing weight. I didn't feel like starting the game had a huge effect on my motivation; although I really did enjoy seeings others' tips and tricks, and everyone's trials and tribulations.
About a week before weigh-in, I was on track to meet my final weight, although I wasn't there yet. I'm the type of person who likes huge safety margins in whatever I'm doing. When I was a track runner, I liked to have at least a second over the next girl in my race, and I prefered over 5 seconds difference in times between girls in different races in order to actually consider myself "better". For anyone who runs track (even distance events), those are large margins. Anyway, I found not having met my goal weight early stressful. I was happy with my progress and not lacking motivation to continue until I had this impending deadline and the potential loss of my buy-in stressing me out and actually causing some destructive behaviors (eating junk). My weight had some ugly plateaus and ups, before I finally made myself focus for the last couple days and shake it off.
It turns out, money as a motivator is horrible for me. I'm frugal by nature and losing $100 on something completely optional (like this) just kills me. Not even in a motivational way.
The Decision: I could join another kickstarter if I wanted to. Maybe I will sign up for one with a more trivial buy-in ($10-$20). Something that keeps me posting on here, but whose payout won't really matter to me. I definitely cannot join a transformer: I have about 9lbs left to lose (and keep off) at a current weight of 121 (only 7% of my body weight); so an end goal of 10% weight loss isn't reasonable.
I may come back in another few months and do a maintainer, but again I think, for me, the stress of a buy-in only encourages self-destruction rather than self-improvement. Ultimately, I'm cashing out and staying out of other games for a while.
I do enjoy reading posts on here and love the community in place; I want to stick with updating my weight and checking up different groups. But for a little while, I'm checking out. So long, and happy losing!