Want to 減少（する） 続けざまに猛撃するs? Put your money where your mouth is and get 競争の激しい with new 傾向 for 負わせる-loss betting websites

By Hannah ランド
Updated: 17:21 BST, 20 December 2011

If you are struggling to get ri d of extra 続けざまに猛撃するs in the run-up to Christmas, how about a bet?

Savvy 食餌療法している人s are literally putting their money where their mouths are thanks to a new 傾向 for 負わせる-loss betting websites.

食餌療法している人s who join the 場所／位置s 誓約（する） to lose a 確かな 量 of 負わせる by a 明示するd date and the website calculates 週刊誌 goals.

Kick start: a prize 基金 and the public challenge are the 重要な incentives for starting a diet and the 競争 encourages 使用者s to stick to their goals

If the 的 is not reached, the website will 除去する the 誓約（する） from a bank account or credit card.

If you 勝利，勝つ the most out of your group, you take home the jackpot. If you are in a club, and your group （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域s another, you 分裂（する） the cash prize.

研究 on whether 財政上の incentives lead to 負わせる loss is 十分な説得力のない, but that hasn't stopped thousands of people 調印 up to diet betting 場所／位置s since they first 開始する，打ち上げるd in 2004.

Seth Brown from California used Weightlosswars.com to lose 62lb he'd 伸び（る）d while 失業した and living with his parents.

He put up $30 to compete against 14 strangers.

'I first 始める，決める out to find a website that 行為／法令／行動するd as a sort of social 網状組織 for fat people,' said Mr Brown.

If he ends up in the 最高の，を越す three, Mr Brown will 勝利，勝つ about $260 when the challenge 結論するs on January 16.

Klark Overmyer, from Georgia, says that the money prize is a big incentive.

He lost 58 続けざまに猛撃するs as part of a five-person team.

The group lost a 集団の／共同の 252 続けざまに猛撃するs in three months and 平等に 分裂（する） the $10,000 jackpot.

Overmeyer used the winnings for a family trip away.

'I would like to say that I'm above the money 存在 a big motivator but who am I kidding,' said Overmyer.

'Without the money my vacation to Disney wouldn't be a 可能性. Instead of seeing Mickey my son would be seeing his fat dad on the sofa'.

Debbie Haughton, an 弁護士／代理人／検事 also from Georgia, 手配中の，お尋ね者 to lose 負わせる for her 40th birthday.

She joined a 12-week, 40-person pool organised by a friend. Ms Haughton put in $20, dropped about 18 続けざまに猛撃するs and walked away with $200.

'I knew that a 競争 would stoke that 解雇する／砲火／射撃 for me since I tend to be 公正に／かなり driven,' she said.

'I'm very トンd and looking and feeling 広大な／多数の／重要な. I've also become a 走者 for the first time in my life.'

かかわり合い: Websites such as Stickk.com are experiencing a growing number of 使用者s, with the 人物／姿／数字s 頂点（に達する）ing around the Thanksgiving and Christmas period

Not all the websites use money as the incentive.

At Healthmonth.com, 勝利者s receive 事実上の fruit to give in 団結 to others over a month's time.

At the beginning, 関係者s fill out 詳細（に述べる）d questionnaires that are later used by the 場所／位置 to （手先の）技術 daily emails 申し込む／申し出ing help with self-selected goals like 限界ing alcohol or soda and eating more greens or whole 穀物s.

Alex Rainert, 35, 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 減少（する） some of the 負わせる he 選ぶd up when he became a dad nearly two years ago.

'I've used countless food and fitness trackers to try to change,' he said. 'I think this worked for us because of the social 圧力. You don't want it to look like you're underperforming.'

At Weightlosswars.com, where the motto is 'Lose together or 伸び（る） alone,' marketing director Pete Maughan 推定する／予想するs 10,000 to 15,000 people to 登録（する） from 中央の-December through January.

'I don't 見解（をとる） it as a 解答 to America's 負わせる loss problem,' said Mr Maughan. 'But it's an important 誘発する and a fun and 極端に motivational way to get started on a 負わせる loss 旅行.'