Deposit money in the bank for every pound lost?

[welovedis]

I heard about this on another site and thought it was interesting. Someone mentioned that they deposited a certain amount in their savings account for every pound of weight they lost. One woman did $1/p/pound, another did $5 as she had less weight to loose.

I thought it was a neat idea and have been reading the budget board post about those ING accounts. That would be neat way to really "earn" some savings!

Anyone here do something like this?

[chimera]

Ok Karen...let me give you my account number. I'm not greedy...I'll take $1/lb and I've lost 4 lbs so far. ;)

[DoeWDW]

I've never thought about this but what a neat idea!

[MelanieC]

That is a cool idea!!! You could use it to help fund a nice wardrobe when your done!

[pettyone]

Ok Karen...let me give you my account number. I'm not greedy...I'll take $1/lb and I've lost 4 lbs so far. ;)

:rotfl:

[kfeuer]

I did this when I first started losing weight--I took the money I would have spent on fast food and saved it up. Then when I hit one of my major goals, I'd buy myself a nice treat. I'm wearing my "50-pound" Brighton watch right now :flower:

[welovedis]

chimera, too funny! :rotfl2:

I'm seriously thinking of opening one of those ING accounts and doing this! :)

[AMClvsMKY]

My Dh came up with something close to that for us this year. There are 4 of us in my family. Every time we exercise for a minimum of 15 minutes each day we add $1/per person and $5 if we all exercise into a pot. The thought is to keep the pot going for the year and then take a family vacation with the extra money we save next year.