https://www.nomeatathlete.com/fight-club-stickk/ Plant Based Diet for Athletes Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:00:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.nomeatathlete.com/fight-club-stickk/#comment-15492 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 03:21:04 +0000 https://www.nomeatathlete.com/?p=13063#comment-15492 Suggesting more products and websites for your readers is not in the Fight Club spirit. If you need leverage how about you give your word to people who you respect saying that you will achieve your goal?

]]> https://www.nomeatathlete.com/fight-club-stickk/#comment-15491 Fri, 13 May 2011 00:14:34 +0000 https://www.nomeatathlete.com/?p=13063#comment-15491 http://www.flaab.com is along a similar vein for weight loss. They talk a lot about the research behind why money incentives work, and it is a HILARIOUS site, I highly reccomend looking at this page: https://www.flaab.com/flaabTips.php. Although I don’t recommend all the tips.
To be honest, you don’t need a website, just a supportive friend. My supportive friend is currently holding $100 in trust for me which will go to charity if I don’t reach my goal. If I do, I get the money!
He is also the official arbitrater of the final goal. So for example, if I “plateau” but he knows how hard I’ve been working and the only way I could punch through the plateau is to engage in seriously unhealthy behaviours (ie: starving myself), then I am free to make a case that I should still receive the cash.
Also, money doesn’t just go to charity if I don’t reach my goal, I’m also obligated to participate in a “nudie run”. While in principle I’m happy for my money to go to charity and not to me, I’m really really incentivised not to do the “nudie run”.
I think it will work for me in the short term, and then I’ll look at a way to incentivise maintenance.
So in short, it’s a gimmick but it just might be one that works, because willpower alone is totally weak arse.

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