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My name is Ethan and I suffer from bipolar disorder addiction anger issues body dysmorphia and morbid obesity. In fact at my heaviest. I was north of 650 pounds growing up. I never felt comfortable asking for help or being vulnerable. My goal is to create a space where you can feel safe enough to be vulnerable and shake the Negative stigmas that are attached to mental health. Let's be vulnerable and give others the strength to do the same. Let's talk about it. What's going on? Everybody? Let's talk about competition. For those of you that thought this was going to be about sports and what sports I'm following. Unfortunately. I'm going to disappoint you. I don't really follow Sports. The competition I'm talking about is more of the competition that I see in the weight loss world. As you know weight loss is a big part of my life. It is a big part of my journey and I'm a part of the weight loss community on Instagram. I see a lot of Titian some I think is absolutely wonderful and some I think while at face value seems good in my opinion can potentially lead to very very very unhealthy practices. One of the examples of the good competition. Today is December 12th, 2019. So as I'm recording this my friend Dusty Dusty underscore lost underscore 300 on Instagram, I'll link in the show notes my friend Dusty just Released a challenge and he hashtag did Iron Dusty basically what it is if I remember correctly off the top of my head. It is 25 flights on the StairMaster. It is one mile on the treadmill and three miles on the exercise bike. Now. The reason this is a really good challenge in my opinions because my friend Dusty he is reiterated this time and time again on his story when he talks about it. Is this isn't a competition between people this isn't who can be fastest or who can do it the best this is a competition against yourself. It's a Baseline and and dusty is talked about this time and time again, it is a baseline that way three months from now six months from now a year from now, you can do the iron Dusty again and see how much you have improved and then there are competitions like dietbet so But if you don't know what dietbet it is, basically a you bet money that you're going to lose a certain amount of weight in a certain amount of time. And yeah, that sounds great. But gosh I hate diet but and I hate the dietbet community and I hate what dietbet pushes and and encourages. I really genuinely hate it. So I'm looking at the website as we speak. Eek and the first thing in big white letters is make your weight loss bet today a healthy wager can increase your weight loss success and then they have a little calculator see what you can win in Just Three Easy Steps step one play with the calculator below. Okay, so currently without changing anything by Price my potential price range for winnings is five hundred to one thousand three hundred and twenty four dollars. That's if I lose. 30 pounds in nine months betting $50 and I what you thinking 30 pounds nine months. Okay. That's totally doable for most people that's that's a fair bet. So let's play around with the numbers. Let's say Let's say 10 pounds, and I've not done this before. So this is like live as I'm recording this. This is interesting. Like I said, this is live. So okay. It only lets me go if I put 10 pounds lost it only lets me go down to 6 months then how see? I'm curious now. I'm very curious because all the diet bets that I've seen on Instagram are like lose this much in one month. So let's do for Grins and Giggles. Let's say 30 pounds in 6 months. I could win between 700 and 1530 dollars if I bet a hundred and five dollars. So let's go to step 2. What's my gender? I'm a male. What's your current weight? My current weight is 332 pounds at as of this morning and then it comes up with an ad Tessa one five thousand six hundred and ten dollars and lost 87 pounds as a picture of her and a little testimonial. Okay. We'll skip the ad I am 6 foot. Four inches, give or take what is your top motivation for losing weight and it's multiple choice improve physical health increase energy level more self-confidence a pain-free life or other. Hmm. Let's say improve physical health because that's part of it. Another add the average winner loses forty point seven pounds and gets paid one thousand two hundred and $45. This is incredible healthy wage is all about motivation and that it has a little question underneath it. If you had an in red text right to highlight the number again 1245 dollars in your pocket you would and then there's a drop down menu. Go on vacation buy new appliances shop for new clothes pay off debt other. Hmm, I'd go on vacation. I'd like to go on vacation and meet some of you. Oh look another ad motivation science people who bet were five times more likely to hit goal in a randomized control study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And then there's a little diagram a bunch of people found success with a weight loss bet and then there is a much smaller list or or number of people that found success on their own and the here's the thing the larger amount of people represented here that found quote unquote. Found success with a weight loss bet is in green the found success on their own is in a very gray and drab color. Your prize is being calculated and then it's as seen on the doctors New York Times Fox News Nightline woman's daily The Wall Street Journal because if something's on all of these things well, then it's definitely good for you. Oh and then I've got my prize and my prize the potential prize that I could earn is blurred. A out right and it looks like it is a 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 digit number with a decimal. So we're in the thousands right now underneath it says we promise this is the last step to get a prize offer and then they want my email address and a password. Of course they do. So let's put it in please verify you're not a robot and then instead of a here's here's the funny thing. Here's the trick instead of the button that I'm about to click saying the button saying sign. It says show prize amount. And it you the button goes from green to Gold once you put your cursor on it. I don't know if you guys know about colors and the power that colors have on our psyche but on our subconscious, but colors are a huge thing in this. This website plays a lot with colors. So my potential prize is 1158 dollars and underneath it says invest in yourself and one 1158 dollars in blue the numbers in blue. Your total bet is 630 dollars plus your total profit 528 you could get 80 3.81 return pretty good since most banks only pay 2% interest. Hmm. So they're charging you monthly to host this bet it would It cost me six hundred and thirty dollars 630 dollars and then the profit would be 528. So okay check this out. Your goal is been adjusted must be at least 10% of your body weight. So what's my goal? What's my new goal? Let's hit make my bet review and payment feel great and to have an extra one thousand one hundred and fifty eight dollars in your wallet as soon as June 18th. Mmm. Is it really an extra amount? Okay. All right this wow. This is disgusting. I've actually never been into this website. I have only Built My Hate and disgust from the people that advertise these things on Instagram. So details of your Healthy wager, but 105 dollars a month. Okay. I didn't even realize in the beginning that it was a month. Maybe I wasn't reading that that you'll Way 33 pounds less in six months. Okay, so bet 105 dollars one hundred five dollars a month is in blue text. Everything else is in Black text 33 pounds is in blue. Text six. Is in blue text then it says if you win you'll gain five hundred and twenty eight dollars in blue text just the number. That's a eighty three point eight one percent return on investment. So the 80 3.81 return is in blue text return on investment is in Black in six months blue text. And then in small print don't worry if you need to adjust your weight after you make your bet most people don't know their precise weight. But it has to be 10% Your loss has to be 10% of your total weight. So ready to make your Healthy wager step one lay down your bet you can pay all at once or in monthly installments. Oh, well, that's nice step to lose weight. Have fun losing weight with double incentive. You'll be motivated by the desire to one avoid losing your bet and to win your prize step 3 win money. If you are at or below your goal weight at the end of your challenge you and the money. But if you don't if you if you aren't if you don't hit that goal that $600 or what is it? 630 dollars that 630 dollars is gone. It's gone. I need you guys to understand what's going on right now with this website with this company. This company is betting against you. I'm going to I'm going to say that again this company dietbet and healthy wage. Which is the the company see actual companies from what it looks like that hosts dietbet I guess is betting against you they are betting against your health. You know, it's funny. I originally when I when I started recording this podcast it was going to be about how disgusting it was that all these quote-unquote influencers on Instagram are pushing losing as much weight as you possibly can in the shortest amount of time because We've seen with the Biggest Loser the TV show The Biggest Loser that doesn't work. We've seen with Weight Watchers. That doesn't work. We've seen with anything the faster you lose it usually the faster and more you gain it back. That's just kind of a rule of thumb when it comes to weight loss. But now now this podcast has changed. Oh, you know what? Hmm. That wasn't even dietbet you guys. I'm embarrassed. That was just that was just a different website that hosts is that This is amazing. This is amazing. Hold on I have to okay, so I was actually looking at a different website same same idea though. So that was healthy wage. Now. Here's the thing. I went to Bing and I bing I yeah, I binged if you yeah, I guess dietbet two words. So the first thing that came up was get paid to lose weight personal or team bets. That's the website that we were just on and that's called healthy wage.com. And now here's the disgusting part of all of this. That's the first link if I scroll down to the next link shark tank weight loss product lose up to 27 pounds in three weeks underneath that lose 30 pounds in 21 days 2019. Best diet to lose weight underneath that 2019. Number one shark. Take weight loss lose fat 29 pounds in three weeks and then I wish I would have seen that diet. That diet bet.com setup or join a weight loss challenge. Let's go ahead and look at dietbet while we're here dietbet. Okay, so we are at the dietbet website diet metal better away better company the first thing that dietbet the dietbet website is advertising is that they are a better company. Who cares? Who cares? Right. Oh my gosh. All right. So this diet bet.com is obviously trying to capitalize over the website. We were just at it literally go to their website diet bet.com. The first thing you see on the very top is dietbet in blue. Once again, I've also noticed the dietbet their website designers are playing with color underneath that it says a way better and way better is one word, which means it's the name of something. Company trademarks underneath that we see a picture of someone that quote lost 56 pounds and one 1783 dollars individual results May Vary. Yeah. No duh next to that want to lose 10% Join our weekly transformation dietbet play now starts in fifteen days want to lose four percent. Join our weekly Kickstarter or create your own gameplay now hosts a dietbet start a diet bit with your friends. And family create how it works join the game seven hundred eighty thousand 999 players lose weight 13 million five hundred ninety two thousand four hundred and eighty-one pounds lost when and split the pot 62 million two hundred sixty three thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars paid to Winners and then there's some testimonials Transformer JumpStart. Twenty transform six thousand dollars in prize is oh, no, these are actually games. These aren't testimonials. So these are games. So this is a Transformer game. Okay, 291 players $35 bet fifty four thousand forty dollars pledged. Let's play the game. Let's see what the rules to this one is BET $35 per month to keep you accountable lose 10% over six months. Okay, so it looks like six months is at least Least amount of time that you can run these bets which I will give it to them six months that could potentially be healthy. You could potentially lose a healthy amount in six months when split the pot with others cool. Our biggest game of the year is here jumpstart your way to a new you and lose 10% in percent in six months. We're giving away a total of six thousand dollars in prizes along the way with 1000 of prizes each. month It's an extra 1,000 per month plus if you win you split with other people. So that's a jump starter that starts on the first course it starts on the first then you have a Kickstarter and the kickstarter the pot is four thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars a hundred twenty five players 35 $35 bet that one just started. Why wait until January 1st. Let's hold each other accountable through the holidays. Oh, we can't join that. Whoa. Can we? Can we go enjoy that loose 4% 4% over four weeks four percent over four weeks. Okay, let's talk about let's give this some contacts. Okay. So I am 43 percent body fat according to my run fo scale which sure four percent in four weeks. No big deal. If you're twenty percent if you're twenty percent body fat or less you don't much work how much torture you would have to do how much incredibly strict dieting you would have to do to lose a percentage. Of body fat let alone four and four weeks just disclaimer. I'm not a nutritionist or a doctor. I've just been doing this for a really long time. Really long time. Here's another one 465 players 16,000 $275 $35 bet per month for percent for weeks. Are you kidding me? Okay, so I'm going to stop reading through this. What I'm interested in is host a dietbet. Let's create a dietbet friends. Ethan's dietbet start date December 22nd, 2019. Enter bet amount players win 30% more often when they bet at least thirty-five dollars. So we have presets 35 50 75 or other select access type open or invite only let's go $50 and open. Here's what I'm curious about. Here's what I want to know. I want to know I want to know how much hosts make from this. That's what I want to know membership to dietbet dietbet membership with a picture of three girls laughing and having fun in a big old star unlock more ways to lose weight and keep it off more game variety fun bonus workouts healthy eating challenges weekly accountability weigh-ins at with prize giveaways and more one year of membership for less than five dollars a month. Let's become Come on guys, dietbet membership program 12 months get more ways to lose weight with membership unlock our top accountability tools like more game types fun bonus challenges huge prize giveaways each week and effective progress tracking tools with all the supportive Community dietbet already has to offer four dollars and Seventeen cents a month or $50. What are you pay with PayPal that makes it so much easier. What I want to know is how much the hosts make and how much these companies make so let's ask Google. So I Googled how much do dietbet hosts make how much of the pot does dietbet take we want to reward our players with as much money as possible for accomplishing the super impressive task of achieving their weight loss goals, but we also need to keep the lights on over here at way better HQ. Our fees used to pay for transaction costs referees are full-time team and Their company X other company expenses diet bets fee is 10 to 25% of the payout depending on the amount of the initial bet because this is taken out of the gross pot before payout to the winners players who do not win do not incur any fees. Right, but they don't get their money back. So it doesn't say how much the hosts make on that link, but we're going to keep looking. Do host of dietbet make money diet review. Is it a real way to get paid to lose weight who become a dietbet coach. This is under the how do I make money with diabetic become a diet back coach as a diet bet coach you can host games and make extra money for each game. You host the more players you recruit the more money you earn how much money can be made with diabetic apart from the prizes. You can win on average one and a half to two times your bet in the kickstarter program as a Former winner dietbet suggest that you can make at least three hundred and twenty-five dollars for winning all six rounds or a hundred and seventy-five dollars for winning just the final round. Of course playing more games would allow you to make more money added to that as a dietbet coach. You can make an extra five to ten percent of the gross pot for each game. You host. Let's go back to diet beds website. Okay, so winning split the pot 62 million two hundred and sixty three thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars paid to Winners is what they're claiming 10% of that. I'm assuming I'm assuming that's actually I from the frequently asked questions. That's after they take out 10 to 25% But let's just take 10 percent that's six million two hundred twenty six thousand three hundred and twenty three dollars and fifty cents twenty five percent would be double that plus some so that's we're going to 15 million dollars for hosting a website. That is betting To your health now, here's what I was originally going to talk about. There are influencers on Instagram that host diet beds all the time literally all the time. They constantly have Diet bets hosting and there's one person that I'm thinking of that has over a million followers over a million followers that constantly hosts diet bets. In fact almost every post that this person makes is including dietbet is talking about dietbet. Advertising when the next dietbet is going to be I don't know this person personally, so I'm not going to speak on their character. I can only speak on what I see and what I see is this person Using much like this website using this facade of oh, we want you to be healthy to take your money. These websites are blatantly betting against your health. They are betting on the fact that you can't do it. They are banking on the fact you can't do it and you have these influencers on Instagram and inevitably on Facebook and inevitably on Twitter all these social media platforms that are utilizing this tool utilizing this website that is betting against you and they're making bank. They're making bank and it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you win or lose. It doesn't matter if you lose the weight, it doesn't matter. These hosts still get the money. I'm not saying that dietbet doesn't work. There are very competitive people in this world. And if dietbet is a tool that helps you get healthy, then I'm all for it. But here's the problem. If you cannot lose weight without having a dietbet without having a bet without having competition if you cannot get up in the morning and go I'm going to go to the gym for me for my health. I'm going to eat properly for me for my health. If you cannot do that. If you have to rely on this dietbet, then you may want to take a break and to look at what you're doing because that is not healthy. You should be chasing health and everything you do you should be Facing health I encourage everyone to constantly Chase Health. Only Chase Health. The thing is the problem with this specific influencer that I'm talking about that constantly host. These diet bets is that this person has lost a substantial amount of weight. Substantial amount of weight and should be proud of that but one this person lost it in a very very very short period of time and to from a quick glance at their Instagram page. I don't follow them. I don't support them at a quick glance at their Instagram page almost looks like they're starting to gain some weight back which is stereotypical of everyone that loses a substantial amount of weight fast. So this this person is capitalizing on Their weight loss and hear me. I have nothing wrong with capitalizing on your weight loss as long as you are genuinely helping people. I eventually want to be a personal trainer and a big part of my cell is going to be my weight loss. It's going to be myself. It's going to be my journey. I eventually want to be a self-help coach and a big part of my cell is going to be my weight loss is going to be my journey it's going to be this podcast is going to be Instagram. I have no problem with capitalizing on the work that you have put in. I've been I've been working out for 10 years. I've been working out for a decade. If you don't even go to school for that long and then make money and that's okay. That's a beautiful thing about living in America as we can capitalize on things like self-transformation. My problem is this person has over a million followers that are all watching this person encouraged them to lose as much weight as they possibly can as fast as they possibly can right because it's not about just losing that weight. It's about losing more than everyone else because that's what these competitions inevitably lead to but all the while this person is sitting there making money whether you win or not whether you're healthy or not. I hate dietbet. I hate dietbet. I hate anything that looks like dietbet and frankly. I hate the people that encourage others to do dietbet. It is not healthy. Yeah sure. You can lose weight. But what are you doing to your relationship with food? What are you doing to the way you look at Food? What are you doing to your mental health? I hate dietbet. I wasn't expecting going on this entire rant, but I hate I hate. dietbet and listen to me on the off chance that you are someone that hosts diet bets on a regular basis and you encourage people to do this garbage DM me if you really have a problem with what I'm saying, if you feel attacked guess what I'm attacking you DM me come talk to me. I hate dietbet. I hate what it does to people's mental health. We have all this controversy over the Biggest Loser right lose as much weight as you possibly can in the most unhealthy way possible and win money. There was a huge controversy now, they're bringing the show back. I haven't looked into the new show. I'm hoping it's going to be something different. But let's be real. It's for TV. It's not going to be anything different yet. For some reason dietbet can be quiet in the background, even though it encourages exactly the same behavior and exactly the same mentality. I hate diabetic as always if you'd like to get a hold of me. You can find me on Instagram at depressed. The number two determined again, that's depressed too determined. That's the best way to reach me and I will end this one the same way I end all of them. You are beautiful you are worth it. And as long as you are willing to put the work in hope will always be there. Until the next one.
The new round of Diet Bet is starting this week!!! Join in, all you have to do is follow the link in my bio, place your wager and potentially ruin your relationship with food and diet! If you are thinking about joining a diet bet to help you reach your goals in the new year, please pay attention. I HATE Diet Bet and anything that looks like it. Listen to find out why. Just a quick disclaimer. Things I am not: A doctor A dietitian An expert A specialist Things that I am: Someone who has lost over 300lbs over the last nine years Someone who proudly labels himself as a gym rat Someone who is willing to be completely transparent in hopes of helping others realize they are not alone in the fight. Someone who is hoping to help others using the tools I have developed from my own experiences. I am so incredible grateful for you giving me time out of your day, if anything I have said touches you or brings up thoughts or topics you'd like to discuss or you'd like to be a guest on our podcast, the best place to reach me would be on Instagram @Depressed2Determined. I'm sure they would all appreciate it! You are beautiful, You are worth it, and as long as you are willing to put the work in hope will always be there! 24/7 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline - 1-800-273-8255  ---   This episode is sponsored by  · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. 