What would it take to motivate you to lose weight? 

• A major health scare of onset of diseases such as diabetes or heart problems?
• A change in your social situation or relationship?
• One look in the mirror?
• Perhaps reaching an age milestone such as 30 or d40?
• The onset of bathing suit season or a special vacation?

These are all common weight loss motivation catalysts – but there is another that seems to work – money.

Research outlined in this press release outlines a reseach study out in September in the “Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medecine” discovered that people were motivated to lose weight for as little as a $30-$40 per 10 pounds lost. 

Even more important,  the results seemed to hold – though the researchers admit that a 1-year follow-up is yet to be done to test how the weight loss motivation holds up.

What we may be seeing here is that the overweight people in this study would have been motivated by most anything – they simply may have needed an extraneous reason to burn the fat.  To be truly conclusive studies would have to take into account other incentives in the future.

What about you – would $40 or even $100 incent you to lose 20-pounds? 

Would money be more of an incentive than the way you feel, how you look or other common weight loss motivation factors?

I can tell you personally there are stronger motivations than $100 – like the fact I have to put on shorts for an upcoming trip down South or the view I get of myself each morning when getting out of the shower – in fact, there’s very little money that would be a bigger incentive than that!

Let us know about your biggest weight loss motivation factors?

Jeff