HealthyWager allows you to 'bet' on your weight loss success. During registration, you choose how to pay—either a one-time payment or monthly. If you achieve your goal at the end of the challenge, you win your prize. We verify your starting and ending weights with a simple at-home video that takes about 30 secs. See How do I get my weight verified? for more information.

Because it can make you more successful at losing weight-regardless of which diet or exercise program you are pursuing. A variety of academic research demonstrates that financial incentives increase the effectiveness of weight loss programs by 5X!. HealthyWager applies those academic principles to make you more successful at weight loss. It helps you set clear goals that greatly benefit your health and establish a timeline to reach those goals.

It's super easy and takes about 30 seconds. After registration, download our mobile app which is available in the App Store and Google Play Store. Step on a scale in the comfort of your own home and follow the on-screen instructions to make a short weigh-in video. That's it. Quick and easy and you don't need any special equipment other than a smartphone and a scale.

Sometimes, the weight people enter when playing with the prize calculator ends up being a little different than their weight at their verified weigh-in. Don't panic; this is common, many people don't know exactly what their weight is. However, if your weight is off by more than a few pounds, please reach out to our friendly customer support team at info@healthywage.com to see if it impacts your prize.

You can lose more weight than you wagered. Your prize will not change. Please be sure to read our rules regarding safe and healthy weight loss.

The earliest you can weigh-out is two weeks prior to your challenge end date. You can conduct your ending verified weigh-in any time during the final two weeks of your challenge. The last day of your challenge is the last day you can conduct your ending verified weigh-in. We want to encourage weight loss and weight management over time. Our goal is to help you get the weight off, keep it off, develop new habits and begin a new lifestyle over the course of your challenge.

Yes! If you are under the care of a physician and they prescribe a weight loss medication, you can absolutely still participate! This includes GLP-1 medications such as Wegovy, Ozempic, Mounjaro, etc.

No. If your weight loss occurs as the result of a medical procedure or surgical intervention of any kind, you will not be eligible for any prize. This includes, but isn’t limited to: gastric sleeve, gastric bypass, gastric balloon, bariatric surgery revision procedures, CoolSculpting, skin removal, liposuction, Kybella, Vanquish, etc. You may participate if your surgery was more than 1 year before your start date. If you’re unsure whether your situation is prohibited, please reach out to info@healthywage.com. Please note that HealthyWage does not take a position on whether surgery is a good idea for any particular patient—that’s between you and your doctor.

Absolutely. You can participate in up to 10 challenges at the same time! So double-up, even triple-up to maximize your winnings for the same weight loss! For example, you can make a HealthyWager individual weight loss bet and join HealthyWage team challenges, HealthyWage step challenges and HealthyWage jackpot challenges, all at the same time. The one exception is that you can't have two simultaneous HealthyWager individual weight loss bets, you can only have one HealthyWager individual weight loss bet at a time.

Nope. You just need to achieve your goal in the timeframe you set up. Your challenge time begins running when you get your verified weigh-in. Then, at the end of the challenge, you need to get your verified weigh-out during the two week window before and including your end date. Once you’ve hit your goal and submitted your ending weight, you will be prompted to complete a winner confirmation form, which will include providing photo identification to confirm your height and identity. Our referee team will review your information to certify your win within 7 days (so be sure to maintain your weight loss)! It's as simple as that.

Despite years in business and rafts of press stories and reviews, we still sometimes get this question. If you have any doubts, we recommend that you take a look at the mountain of evidence we've compiled that HealthyWage is legitimate, including hundreds of articles from credible sources (e.g., CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal), many of the news stories contain testimonials from actual participants that reporters spoke with. We have an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau, and you can see proof on the Internet that we have been around for a long time (since 2009). There comes a point when we can't do much more to prove that this is for real, maybe you are just looking for an excuse to avoid getting started?!

HealthyWage is committed to protecting the security of your personal information, including payment information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure. For example, all participant data is collected and transmitted over secured connections using 256-bit encryption. All pages on the HealthyWage website are served over TLS. All payment data is handled following rigorous Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards set by VISA, MasterCard, and American Express. We process payments via a highly reputable third-party payment processor and never store your sensitive payment information on our own system.

Yes. Although we use the word “bet” to explain the concept, HealthyWager isn’t gambling in the legal sense because you are in control of the outcome at all times. It's up to you to lose the weight.

No. Even if you choose to pay your wager in monthly installments (rather than all at once), your goal is the same: hit (or beat) your weight loss goal as of the end of your challenge (you can weigh out anytime during the last two weeks of your challenge). There is no monthly weigh-in (other than the non-verified weigh-ins that you can optionally do on the app to keep track of your fantastic progress!).

No. But you can sign up after you’ve had your baby, if your doctor says it's okay.

HealthyWage does not withhold any of the winnings for taxes. The IRS has set a $600 threshold for reporting of contest prizes/winnings. We will request your tax information only if you win a prize greater than the IRS threshold. If your net proceeds are less than the IRS threshold, we will not collect your tax information. You should, of course, ask your tax advisor for advice as to whether your specific winnings are taxable (we make no representations).

If your winnings, minus your wager, are over $600 and you opt for a check as your payout method, HealthyWage will mail you a 1099 via USPS by January 31 of the following year.

If you choose PayPal as your payout method, PayPal is responsible for sending your 1099. As of January 1, 2022, Federal Law has changed the IRS reporting requirements for transactions via third-party networks [e.g., PayPal]. All transactions exceeding $600 within the third-party network platform will require them to issue a 1099-K.