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Tennessee
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I can't be more happy with this company that lets you challenge yourself and pays you if/when you meet your weight loss goals. No better way to stay motivated. It's pretty straight forward and they have an easy process to send the weigh ins. I recommend them very much

Date of experience: March 15, 2019
New Mexico
1 review
1 helpful vote
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HealthyWage is awesome! From beginning to end, the whole process of placing your bet, weighing in and getting paid out is very simple! If you have any desire to lose weight and are lacking the motivation... HealthyWage is the ultimate motivator. Who else is going to pay you to lose weight?!

They even offer smaller challenges along the way to make extra money and to keep you on target!

I won $2,421 by losing 50 pounds in 8 months. I was skeptical at first, as I'm sure many people are, it's just too go to be true right?! I submitted my final weigh in and within a week I had a check in my mailbox! Don't hesitate... stop making excuses, lose the weight and make some money!

Date of experience: October 24, 2018
North Carolina
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Loving Healthy Wage
March 18, 2019

This is such a wonderful app/site. I have done 4 challenges in the last 6 months, 3 small ones and 1 BIG one. I lost 40lbs in 6 months and won $1538. 00 (I invested $600)and if I had of had more faith in myself I would have submitted a much higher wager.

This is a great way to communicate with others who have the same goal as you and to help keep you focused on the prize.

So it's like getting 3 for 1! You get your investment back, you lose weight, and you get more money on top of what you invested.

It's a WIN WIN, no matter how you look at it.

Good luck and come on and join me because I've just started another challenge

https://www.healthywage.com/challenges/directory

Date of experience: March 18, 2019
Illinois
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Great service!
July 19, 2020

HealthyWage is an amazing service! I bet that I would lose 100 pounds in 11 months, and I did it! I paid in a total of $2,000 over the 11 months, and won $5,000, so profited $3,000. I got paid right away with no issues. HealthyWage gave me that spark to get started, and provided structure/urgency to keep me going throughout. I highly recommend this to anyone who's had trouble sticking to a weight loss plan. When there's money on the line, you're definitely more likely to get it done!

Date of experience: July 19, 2020
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over a year old

Way to go Jenny and congratulations on your incredible success!

Ohio
1 review
23 helpful votes
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So I joined to this joke of healthy wage. First of all, if you made the mistake to join, you better be prepare to loose the weight or the money cause there is not cancellation to it. Second, if you also made the mistake to joint to the challenge you would not make much. This challenges are base on a pot, which means you share the price among the winners, not without the HealthyWage company taking their share first. Said that, I entered into a pot where the entry money was $100. I won and I ended making 12 dollar approximately. Then there was another pot challenge where a made 8 dollars and you gotta take PayPal fees a as well so less that 8 dollars. Seriously?. Such as scam, and shame of Jillian Michaels on supporting this scammers. Of course you will loose the weight because you won't like to loose the money. But is this really a healthy formation of habits? I don't think so.

Date of experience: May 31, 2022
HealthyWage S. HealthyWage Rep
over a year old

Hi, Jenn and congratulations on your weight loss success so far with winning two of our Fast Track challenges, including a 15% profit! Unlike our individual HealthyWager weight loss challenge where the prize (up to $10,000!) is all for you, our Jackpot and Fast Track challenge prizes are equally split amongst successful participants in each challenge, so the profit amount varies for each challenge depending on the number of winners. Our "no-lose guarantee" ensures that if you achieve the goal, you'll always win back at least your registration fee. Regarding the PayPal fee, we do disclose that there may be a potential fee processed from PayPal, but do not have control over the amounts charged. You are welcome to request a check for a flat $7 fee for any winnings, apply them towards current installments, or join new challenges to increase your profit further while you work to reach your personal goals. If you have any questions or concerns, we encourage you to reach out to our support team at info@healthywage.com and they'll be happy to help you!

California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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App has been super helpful so far. Have lost 20 pounds already. I recommend creating your own paper version and posting it somewhere you can see it every day. Weight loss requires a lot of gradual changes to habits which takes time and it can take a while. Weight loss may be slower in the beginning while habits are being modified and then will pick up steam. The progress tracker assumes that weight loss happens at a steady pace through time and so the 'progress score' can be discouraging. Progress score may show that you are behind schedule while you in reality have plenty of time to get the weight off. Use your personal judgement to decide if you can pull it off in the time you have left. Dont let a low progress score derail you!

Date of experience: February 12, 2021
HealthyWage S. HealthyWage Rep
over a year old

Hi Lucia and congratulations on your success so far in your HealthyWager challenge! While our progress tracker is there to help you stay on track to hitting your personal weight loss goal (and winning that huge cash prize!), it is merely a guide that we hope participants utilize as a resource. As you mentioned, weight loss is different for everyone and we're currently in the process of updating our tracker to include more information and options. We appreciate your feedback and will take your input into consideration for future enhancements. If you have any specific suggestions or further feedback to share, please reach out to us at product@healthywage.com. Also, if you haven't updated to the latest version of the app, please update it now to get the most current features.

California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I joined to lose 50 pounds in 6 months as I remember. I had already lost 30 pounds bfr finding this. I was not on track come to the last months. But that doesn't matter much. The fact that they couldn't process 1 payment they eliminated me from the program. That was my issue. No matter what I would have won the competition. But they just eliminated me without my attempt to contact me.

Date of experience: July 18, 2020
HealthyWage S. HealthyWage Rep
over a year old

Hi Alexis, if you have not done so already, please contact our customer support team at info@healthywage.com to discuss your challenge. When a participant's payment doesn't process successfully, several email notifications are sent, alerting of the missed payment. Once the account is back up to date, the challenge is immediately reactivated. We definitely want to ensure you're able to finish your challenge as planned, so please reach out to our awesome support team who will be happy to help!

Indiana
1 review
50 helpful votes
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The way this company works is you first make your big HealthyWager challenge. This is the goal you create by agreeing to losing a certain amount of weight in a certain time frame. This is the challenge you pay monthly installments on and end up getting a nice payoff from if you complete it.

I originally left a 2/5 review. This was due to the mini challenges, which are (team or individual) challenges that you can enter along the way in addition to your big HealthyWage challenge. The reason they didn't work is because the majority of the time, everyone in the challenge would hit their goal and so there would be no payoff. In this case, you just get the money back that you put into it. That's fine and dandy except Most of them didn't pay off and the ones that did were maybe $1-4. So essentially you gave them money, didn't earn even interest on it, and they send it back to you months later. The crazy part though, is to get your money back you have to pay $7 for them to send you a check or you can pay $2+3% for a PayPal deposit. Either way, if enough people win the mini challenge, then you don't even get back the full money that you put in.

They waive the $7 check fee once every 6 months (As long as the check is below like $850), so if you partake in only one mini challenge, you could get your buy-in returned to you for no cost. But I joined and won 10 mini challenges, meaning they would waive the check fee for the first one but anything after that I'd have to pay for. I stand by my original review that this policy is totally lousy.

The reason for the revised review however, is due to the fact that I won my BIG healthy wager challenge. So at the end of the day, they did what they were supposed to do. They created a way to motivate me to to lose 40 pounds, plus I made a great return on my installments. I paid $180/month for 6months. I am now getting my winning check for $2200. That's a good enough feeling (plus being skinny) for me to give them a solid 4/5 stars.

Takeaway: Go big or go home. Don't bother with the mini challenges. If you think you can make a big goal and stick with it, then you'll get a big payoff.

Date of experience: April 2, 2020
HealthyWage S. HealthyWage Rep
over a year old

Hi Madison and congratulations on winning your Jackpot challenge! Yes, our Jackpot challenges have smaller payouts then our individual HealthyWager challenge (and the jackpot has a 25% admin fee — the same as our competitors — which the HealthyWager DOES NOT). If you want a bigger prize and no admin fee, I suggest you try the HealthyWager, which pays up to $10,000. The only catch is that the HealthyWager requires that you set a goal of at least 10% of your body weight. Regarding the $7 check fee: if your payout is lower than $75, you are not charged the $7 check fee (this stated when you go to cash out your winnings). You can also choose Paypal and avoid the check fee. Regarding your tax question, we will send you a 1099 if your total winnings are $600 or greater (minus wager) in a year.
Bottom line: if you have at least 10% of your body weight to lose and looking for a higher payout with no admin fee, we highly recommend our HealthyWager challenge. It’s an individual weight loss challenge where you select your weight loss goal, how long you want to lose it in, and cash prize (up to $10,000). For more information, please visit https://www.healthywage.com/weight-loss-bet/name-your-own-prize

North Carolina
1 review
82 helpful votes
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Healthy Wage sent out an email inviting users to sign up for a healthy wager bet-the large individual bet, even if you had gained weight back from your last bet. They typically call this the yo-yo rule. They allowed users to sign up for the bet, collected our payments- and then cancelled anyone who had already succeeded. This is breaking their contract as well as an extremely poor business practice. Instead of responding, they have blocked everyone from their social media and sent emails that they appealed our decisions for us and there is nothing that can be done. They sat on thousand of dollars before refunding & were able to collect a lot of money in interest. This seems highly unethical- if not completely illegal.

Date of experience: February 1, 2020
HealthyWage S. HealthyWage Rep
over a year old

Sorry that you feel that way. It looks like you've gotten paid more than $2,000 from HealthyWage. We cancelled your most recent challenge due to health reasons, you gained too much weight too quickly in between challenges. Our first responsibility is to make sure weight loss is healthy. You were fully refunded and may be eligible to participate again in the future after more time passes after your challenge.

GB
1 review
29 helpful votes
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£600 and 6 months of consistent and steady weight loss to achieve my final goal after, I saw NO MONEY BACK from this company. Do not trust with your hard earned money. My weight goal was achieved, all necessary proof of that was sent to them and they still refused to send me my money back for my win. Utterly fraudulent and unethical business practice. Although it may sound like a great way to lose weight, if you happen to get your money back, it's probably more because of luck than actual results, so be aware of that before signing up for this fraudulent company. I am frankly disgusted by the way they run this business. After I tried to make the other members of their community aware of my experience, they blocked my account and deleted my post. WITHOUT returning my money back of course. Very transparent business practice as you can see. DO NOT TRUST. The money you see in the picture has never been returned to me, even after achieving my weight goal.

Date of experience: October 23, 2020
HealthyWage S. HealthyWage Rep
over a year old

Our team flagged this account for suspicious activity. When we asked to arrange a confirmation weigh-out, the participant refused to cooperate. Getting paid is easy (we’ve paid out more than $10M this year alone), but your weight loss has to be honest! We do not take cheating lightly.

North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I bet $600 that I would lose 50 lbs in 8 months. When I did it, they sent me a check for $2165. That is a $1565 return on my initial investment. Where else can you make that kind of money, lose weight and create healthy habits? Nowhere!

Date of experience: September 3, 2019
Georgia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Healthywage helped me get on the path to actually being healthy after years of my weight creeping up to the point where I was morbidly obese. I was able to win over $2000 by committing to lose 75 pounds in 8 months, although I was able to lose 100 during that time period. Healthywage kept me accountable when I did not want to share with others at the start of my weight loss journey, and it was exciting to think about how I would use my winnings at it actually became realistic towards the end. It paid out exactly how they say it would and the verification process was easy. There isn't anything bad I can say about being in much healthier place in life and having more money because of that decision.

Date of experience: October 30, 2019
Ohio
1 review
3 helpful votes
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HealthyWage is a legitimate company that allows you to pick a weight loss goal, set a time frame in which to lose weight, and set a monetary prize (based on length of time and how much you want to put in). I loved the flexibility and how everything was told to me up front - I knew exactly what I had to do to win the bet against myself. I won $1,511 for losing 45 pounds. I would recommend this to anyone and can't wait to set another goal to keep my weight loss journey going!

Date of experience: July 11, 2021
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over a year old

Thank you, Lisa for sharing about your experience with HealthyWage and congratulations on your weight loss and challenge success!

Georgia
1 review
35 helpful votes
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Questionable ethics
February 19, 2021

I signed up for HealthyWage and participated in at least a dozen challenges along the way. I was forced to videotape myself in front of a full-length mirror, go into the next room where I had a hard surface and could videotape myself on the scale and then proceed back into the room with the mirror since all of the rooms in my house with a full length mirror include carpeting and I live alone. This proved to be no issue for every single challenge that I've participated in, however, when it came time for the final way in (with the largest payback), they refused to accept my video because of the method in which I had to record myself. I'm out almost $1,600 because they decided that the method I had followed all along was suddenly "suspicious". If you ask me, their behavior is what is suspicious. I would absolutely not recommend this company to anyone.

Date of experience: February 19, 2021
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over a year old

With over $13 million paid out in 2020 alone, our team reviews and certifies new winners everyday. We take our winner verification process very seriously and fortunately, the percentage of participants we've had to ask to resubmit a second weigh-out verification to prove their weight loss is legit is extremely small (less than 1%). We understand the majority of what we may come across in a video may be unintentional, such as grabbing onto a chair for balance, which is why we do provide our members the opportunity to resubmit to still be eligible to win their challenge. We do not force anyone to do anything. We recommend participants submit their verified weight through our app as it's a quick and easy process that involves them submitting a 30-second video of stepping on and off the scale to confirm their weight.

This participant's most recent video verification was different from previous ones submitted and displayed suspicious practices. After our verifier team confirmed it was a non-compliant verification, we immediately contacted her. We have also provided images of the differences in her verification videos with an explanation of why this most recent one was flagged. To allow her the opportunity to still win her prize, we requested a second verification to prove her weight loss and even gave her an extension to do so. She has refused to submit a second verification and therefore we cannot confirm her win.

Mississippi
1 review
7 helpful votes
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HealthyWage rocks!
November 3, 2019

I just finished a HealthyWage challenge and have $2600 in my pocket for doing what I needed to do for myself... get healthy! Nothing like getting paid for it.

The app was especially nice. It was motivating to log my weight weekly and be able to scroll through and see how far I'd come. And now I have extra money to buy clothes to fit my body that is 71 pounds lighter :)

Date of experience: November 1, 2019
Michigan
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I lost 30 pounds and wagered $600. My prize was $1452 and HealthyWage transferred the money into my PayPal account within 2 days. I highly recommend everyone I know to HealthyWage who wants to lose weight and is serious. Beware though, once you click accept, there is no turning back and you still have to pay- that's what I liked most about HealthyWage. You are financially committed unless you have a medical reason.

Date of experience: August 25, 2019
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I like HealthyWage! It was so easy! The app made it even better. All I had to do was choose how much I wanted to lose, the time frame to lose it and how much I would wager each month. After putting in additional information, my prize was calculated. I did my verified weigh in and the weight loss journey began. This is a self-reliant, incentive program. I did not feel any pressure to spend money on any meal plans, trainers, or exercise program. I'm not sure if HealthyWage offers any of those things. I was free to lose the weight my way! I had full control! I lost 65 pounds in 12 months and won $1,285. I loved putting my weight into the app every week and seeing the progress I was making. If anyone is considering making a healthy wager, do it! It will be worth it! You have to put in the work and make it happen though!

Date of experience: March 7, 2021
HealthyWage S. HealthyWage Rep
over a year old

Congratulations, Alice on your amazing weight loss and health success (plus huge cash win)! We love hearing about our participants' experiences and happy to hear you found nutrition and activity habits that worked for you, and ones you could maintain after your challenge. Keep up those healthy habits!

Texas
1 review
9 helpful votes
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HW gave me my life back
June 9, 2022

I was struggling to lose weight on my own. I kept regaining and losing the same 10 lbs over and over and over. I was researching gastric bypass and came upon a HealthyWage ad. I was skeptical, but I figured I'd give it a shot--maybe having a set deadline and a cash prize might be better motivation for me. It absolutely was. I beat my wager. I've lost 87 lbs in 10 months and have changed my relationship with food entirely. Thanks, HW!

Date of experience: June 9, 2022
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over a year old

Congratulations, Kim on your weight loss and challenge success! We're so happy to hear that the HealthyWager was a positive and effective experience for you, and proud of the success (on and off the scale) you've achieved. Amazing job!

Iowa
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I had a great experience with Healthy Wage. The possibility of winning a large amount of money for losing weight was very motivating for me. The HW support staff is great to work with. I did two large challenges and more than a dozen smaller jackpot challenges and since I met the goals, HW paid out for every challenge that I participated in. This is a very legit business. I'm thrilled to have found HW and would highly recommend HW to anyone planning to lose weight.

Date of experience: July 2, 2021
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over a year old

Congratulations, Dawn on crushing your health and weight loss goals and winning multiple challenges!

Kansas
1 review
6 helpful votes
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My experience with HealthyWage was outstanding! It helped me with that extra motivation I needed. I lost 103 pounds on my bet and won $1030! I have lost 120 lbs total! I love the app and all of the data you are given to help you keep track of your weight loss, pounds to go, etc. I also love that you can connect with other users for support! I highly recommend betting on yourself! I won both financially, physically, and emotionally! If you want to see my full weight loss transformation, share recipes, and support, follow me at lauraworksitout on instagram!

Date of experience: October 30, 2019

Overview

HealthyWage has a rating of 4.1 stars from 135 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with HealthyWage most frequently mention weight loss, extra motivation and time frame. HealthyWage ranks 7th among Weight Loss sites.

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