https://www.odditycentral.com/news/lose-to-win-california-city-motivates-locals-to-lose-weight-with-3500-cash-prize.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lose-to-win-california-city-motivates-locals-to-lose-weight-with-3500-cash-prize A collection of oddities that includes weird places, strange people, bizarre events and other odd stuff from all around the world Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:43:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.odditycentral.com/news/lose-to-win-california-city-motivates-locals-to-lose-weight-with-3500-cash-prize.html#comment-702876 Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:43:10 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/?p=50169#comment-702876 I imagine paying people to lose weight might work in the short run. But if people succeed and collect the money, they may revert back to their former unhealthy habits. The people I know who lost weight and kept it off were motivated by internal factors–the kind that prompted them to work hard to change their habits and to permanently adjust to new ways of eating, They also committed themselves to daily exercise of some kind and have kept up with it.

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