I am a wife and mother of two wonderful girls. I currently work as an administrative assistant in a large healthcare system and love my job. I have worked for this company for 15 years and had three positions. The previous two were very difficult to maintain a diet or eat healthy food. One was night shift and the other was in a physician office where people brought in treats and snacks all the time.

My co-workers and I had decided to do a weight loss challenge similar to the Biggest Loser. I had to be talked in to joining! We all donated $5 to the pot and I decided I would win the 2-month challenge. I think I was just sick and tired of being overweight. After we were done with the challenge, which I won, someone suggested DietBet. I looked into it and hesitated for a few days, but decided there was no way I would lose the money, so I took the plunge!

DietBet worked for me initially for a bit of a financial reason. My husband had been laid off for over a year and my family was struggling to regain some financial balance at the time, I didn’t want to throw money at something that wouldn’t work, but after winning the work challenge I felt confident that I wouldn’t lose the money. After that I was just so motivated to win at something I had control over. it was really all in my hands.

I love the feeling of a large community all over the country all striving to improve their health. I liked checking in to get encouragement and realizing that so many others had the same struggles I did. It was so supportive to see the cheers from others in the group encouraging everyone to keep going and to even see people who didn’t win a bet get on line and congratulate those who did. It is such a great community!

It’s an investment in your health and a chance to win at the very hard activity of losing!