How it Works
1) Calculate Your Prize
Use our calculator to enter your goal and calculate your winnings.
2) Make Your Bet
Increase your winnings by adjusting your goal weight, how much you contribute, and the time you expect it to take! Find a prize you like and make your wager!
3) Lose the Weight
Stay on track throughout the contest with weekly weigh-ins and support from other contestants.
4) Win Money!
Meet your goal and win your prize! It's that simple!
Powerful Weight Loss Motivation
It's really quite simple, money motivates! Leading academic research shows that money enhances weight loss success, making dieters significantly more likely to lose weight. HealthyWage uses cash-based challenges designed to help end procrastination, encourage perseverance, and harness the power of your desire to avoid losing your wager.
We want you to win!
Too Good to Be True?
No, it's not.
HealthyWage makes money from corporate and government clients who are interested in creative solutions to weight loss. In addition, although financial incentives are great weight loss tools, people sometimes lose their weight loss bet.
The question is: will HealthyWage make money from you, or will you make money from HealthyWage?
Christian C.
Lost 64 Pounds, Won $2,496
“My success story starts with a visit to my knee doctor and a blood pressure read at a grocery store kiosk. Those were the signs I needed to start my weight loss journey. I found HealthyWage along the way and it helped me keep focus on my goals, and motivate me through real incentive. It made me jump off the couch and start being more active. I learned more about nutrition... READ MORE
Tessa T.
Lost 87 Pounds, Won $5,610
“I began this journey after hearing those words no one wants to hear from your doctor – ‘you’re pre-diabetic!’ I was devastated. I knew that I was heavy, and I had gotten to the point where I was somewhat embarrassed to be out in public for fear of running into people that I ‘used’ to know when I was thin; however, I had still managed to somehow convince myself that things weren’t that bad. READ MORE
Bev T.
Lost 51 Pounds, Won $1,932
“The thought of actually making money and losing weight at the same time is what convinced me that [HealthyWage] was what I needed to do.” READ MORE
Emily S.
Lost 101 Pounds, Won $5,181
“I LOVED doing HealthyWage while losing weight! Getting paid to do something I already wanted to do!? Yes please! I started a ketogenic diet in mid March and that's where I saw the most lost weight. I also work out 5-6 times a week. Nothing crazy, mostly fasted cardio with about 2-3 days of lifting weights. READ MORE
Everyone Loves HealthyWage
Good Morning America host Abbie Boudreau explains how HealthyWage works and interviews HealthyWage's co-founder Jimmy Fleming on the effectiveness of financial incentives and social support for weight loss.
Today Show host Savannah Guthrie explains the science and research behind HealthyWage and why financial incentives are an effective weight loss tool, plus interviews with four HealthyWage success stories!
"George Loewenstein, a
behavioral economist at Carnegie Mellon University who has
studied financial incentives and weight loss, says the
HealthyWage competition is "using all the conditions that
have been found in the research to be successful."
~ The
Washington Post