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Why Does it Make Sense to Run a Corporate Weight Loss Challenge?

Obesity and weight related illnesses are steadily increasing. With sedentary workplaces and lifestyles, the need for a healthier lifestyle and reduction of body fat is essential. Many people are faced with a lack of motivation when it comes to taking the initiative to lose weight. Others eat for convenience and use work as an excuse, telling [...]

Mayo Clinic: “Money talks when it comes to losing weight”

A recent study has found more evidence that rewarding individuals for losing weight improves outcomes in weight management programs. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic offered cash incentives to a group of participants if they were able to succeed at losing a target of 4 pounds per month. According to the researchers the results for the incentive [...]

Managing Work Related Stress in a Healthy Way

Keep calm and reap the healthy benefits! If you work in a particularly stressful environment, you may be suffering from chronic stress and not even know it. Chronic stress occurs from repeated exposure to stressful situations, and this type of stress is not what are bodies are designed to handle. When our bodies are continuously stressed [...]

Tracking how little we move

Fitbit Zip Smart Pedometer The Wall Street Journal has a nice story on the rise in popularity of smart pedometers and activity trackers like the Fitbit and Nike Fuel Band. I think we often think that we move more than we really do (the article states that the average person takes 5,117 steps per day). I have found [...]

Weigh and Win Achieves 30,000 Participants in Colorado!

We have just crossed a significant milestone in the growth of the Weigh and Win program: 30,000 individuals in Colorado have joined the program! Close to 70,000 pounds have been lost so far. You can read the full press release in our Media Gallery.

Weigh and Win adds its 43rd wellness kiosk in Colorado

The latest HEALTHspot kiosk for the Weigh and Win program has just come online in Boulder Colorado. Weigh and Win is a community wellness program open to residents of Colorado that are 18 and over. The program is sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and powered by incentaHEALTH's patented HEALTHspot® kiosk. The kiosk, located at the Boulder Public [...]

Husband and wife team lose 10% of their body weight with Weigh and Win

Weigh and Win participant Cassie Kauffman weighs in on an incentaHEALTH HEALTHspot kiosk The Greeley Tribune has a neat feature on the Weigh and Win program. In this story you'll hear about how participant Cassie Kauffman uses the customized coaching tools and weight loss incentives to lose weight and stay motivated. Weigh and Win is a [...]

Community-based obesity prevention program powered by incentaHEALTH featured on Colorado’s Best

Here is a quick clip about Weigh and Win that was just featured on Colorado's Best. In this interview you'll see one of incentaHEALTH's Health Coaches talking about how the program works. The best part is hearing from an actual participant as she describes how the program has helped her lose over 50 pounds! The before-and-after [...]

Community wellness program reaches 23,000 Coloradans!

Weigh and Win Kiosk Map (partial) In about 18 months over 23,000 citizens of Colorado have enrolled in a first-of-its-kind community wellness program. The program, a private labeled version of incentaHEALTH called WeighAndWin.com, pays people to achieve a healthy weight. 40 HEALTHspot kiosks are deployed across the state. Participants simply stop by one of the kiosks [...]

Program participants blogs about her weight loss experience using the HEALTHspot kiosk

Weigh and Win Success Story as told by Cassie Here's a neat blog post from a participant in Weigh and Win (the version of incentaHEALTH that we private labeled and operate for Kaiser Permanente). In the post, you'll hear program participant Cassie talk about her weight loss journey. It's always fun to see how the program works in [...]

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