Missed the round and then had an unexpected 1.5 lb drop after the weigh in. Funny how hard it feels to control the number on the scale. Yet I'm seeing very slow albeit consistent downward trend. Just a reminder to hold tight through the bumps and plateaus. And hoping they don't come at the wrong time for the Sept weigh in!

Well I didn’t make the round 3 goal. I was up 0.2 lbs over the last two weeks. It was kind of my summer break. I’m confident I’ll hit my round 4 goal though and be back on track. That’s what is nice about a Transformer. It keeps a more long term perspective.

What happens if you don’t make it to the goal weight for one of the rounds? Can you go on and just make it to the goal weight of the next round or are you out of the game completely? Anyone knows?

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.