Diet Bet

Has anyone ever heard of the website DietBet.com?  Jamie Eason posted that she was hosting a challenge so I thought I'd take a look.  Basically in this challenge you wager $30 and the goal is to lose 4% of your body weight in 4 weeks.  If you are successful, you have the opportunity to earn more than your initial buy in.  

I'm doing another challenge at the same time with a great group of girls at work so when I saw this I thought it would be a good time to double up on challenges to keep me motivated.  I'm definitely taking the slow and steady approach to weight loss since Quentin is not yet 1, but I wanted to do something to get me going in the right direction.

I didn't realize when I was signing up that I'd have to submit my weigh-in within 4 hours of registering. Of course our scale broke a few weeks ago, so when the count down clock showed this, I immediately sent Jason to Walmart to get a new one....at 10:30 pm...on Sunday night.  He was really pleased with me.  Did you know that scales at Walmart are actually in the tools section?  Yeah, no one at Walmart knew either.

So when you weigh-in you have to submit 2 pictures.  One full body of yourself standing on the scale and one of the scale's readout with your weigh-in word.  This is definitely the heaviest I've ever been and I can tell that it is taking a toll on my body.  I am eager to lose a lot of weight and just overall feel better in my skin again, but I know that I can't move too quickly.

So here we go!  

Starting weight - 146.8 lbs
Challenge began - 7/18/16
Goal weight - 140.9 lbs (5.9 lbs)
Challenge ends - 8/14/16