Weight Loss Bet by HealthyWage 17+

In the beginning, I didn’t think I needed an app to cause me to lose weight, but constantly checking my weight and putting it in and watching the percent rise as well as seen my overall progress very visually calls me to really enjoy the weight loss process.

Because I never wanted to watch my progress go backwards I did not have cheat days on the weekends. I also join multiple competitions one of which was in a team. From the very beginning of the competition, my team is in first place because we had a great way loss right off the bat. With the desire to never lose that position and being able to see each other’s percents, we had daily chats to keep our team moving in the right direction. I’ve hit my official weigh in and maxed out on the team competition. Despite that, I continue to wake up for 530 am runs and work outs.

Thank you Healthy Wage. I will do more challenges.

Hi, Jay and congrats on improving your health and gaining success with our HealthyWage challenges. We're so happy to hear you've found our challenges to be a motivating and positive experience in helping you in your wellness journey!

Confusing navigation; create a dashboard for all challenges, instead of a menu. Too much “meaningless” info; who cares about ribbons they can’t see? Also, Heather Warnat needs to make it more clear and intuitive on how to sign yourself and a friend up for the same challenge. Knowing the sign-up steps prior to entering them would be most helpful. Nothing like trying to do a challenge with a friend, you both pay for it, then end up not getting credit for each other (something you couldn’t have known until AFTER signing up), because you did it together individually, and not one at a time via invite. That blows!

Tip: sign up one person at a time by invite only to get credit for linking friends!!

<tiny rant>: Two weeks into a challenge, some folks are at 105% - 150% of their goals - these seem like they should be red flags for “ringers.” HW: Are you REALLY investigating these people who may be taking money from others unethically? I have a lot of weight to lose, have no reason medically that would impede weight loss (my metabolic rate is fine), I work out 4-6 days per week for at least 90 min at a time (more on weekends) with a certified personal trainer; I eat clean, organic, and am exercising portion control, and I have nowhere near those numbers. Something stinks. </tiny rant>

Thank you for your feedback. You can contact our customer support team at any time so that they can retroactively apply the HealthyWager referral boost for both you and your friend. Just reach out to info@healthywage.com.

Also, we do police the challenges very rigorously. We recommended that all standings during the first few weeks of any challenge be taken with a grain of salt as people set used to using the platform. There are frequently user errors that account for the early, large losses. Don't worry - you'll see things level off as the challenge goes on.

This is a great idea, and highly motivating. While I haven't completed a challenge yet, everything I've read tells me that this is legit. But OH MY GOD the app is an absolute disaster. I am enrolled in seven challenges right now, and yet there is nowhere I can go to see all my challenges listed with amounts, goal weights and important dates. You have to go to each individual challenge page in order to view this information for each challenge separately. When you're in multiple challenges, that makes tracking extremely difficult. And there's no visual tracking (i.e. a chart) at all. I can't even see how much money I've committed--not in total across the challenges, but not even for the individual challenges! Once you've committed to a challenge, the information on how MUCH you've committed just...disappears.

There's just really nothing good to say about the app itself. It needs to be burned down and rebuilt from scratch.I was torn between a 2-star and 3-star review, but went with a 3-star review because the program itself is sound. Just don't expect a good user experience.

Thanks for the input! We are working on improvements to make the app experience more consistent with the website experience. The app is 6 years newer than the website, so we honestly have just not had time yet to add all the web features, but we are working on it every single day and will have all the major features on the app in the next few months. Keep an eye out for upcoming updates! You can let us know of any additional features you'd like us to consider adding in the future by sending an email to 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.