Father’s Day was tough, finally started seeing the scale move after hitting a plateau… then came home from work then had too much spaghetti, then a giant cookie, then candy… 1 pound heavier the next day…

Time to refocus and get back on track!

I weighed in this morning for a Kickstarter and was 0.1 under goal for this round, so yay, I can reuse it tomorrow! (I also realized I had my phone in my hand and all when I stepped on, too, so not quite as razor-thin a margin as it looks, either.) Good luck all!

To explain the hard to understand weird prize winnings so far:

$3660 in the pot, divided by 119 people who made their goal weight,
=$30.76 but then Dietbet takes $7.69 from each of these 119 people,
so we each get $23.07 while Dietbet gets $915.

A different way to look at it is: we paid $200 to join the challenge,
1/2 of that is set aside for the 6th and final round, prize winnings,
so the other 1/2 of the money=$100 is divided among the 5 rounds.
Everyone contributed therefore $20 to this round.
And the 119 people who made their goal weight each got $23.07
which is their $20 dollars back, plus winnings of $3.07
(and everybody who did not make their goal weight this round,
lost their $20 dollars). And Dietbet got $915 which is 25% of the pot.

To sum it up: the winners of this round really won $3.07
The losers of this round only lost $20 bucks
And Dietbet made $915 dollars (3660*.25).

None of this is complaining...just explaining.
And I know that the real winning is losing the weight and
changing pants sizes, and getting healthy!
...and the prize money will slowly build up to A LOT more later on.

I hope some people find this helpful...and that it demystifies it.