I wonder if I would be able to apply
I have heard of people promising their kids money for doing certain things like passing exams
so maybe it does work, Id want about $50 a pound though as I;m not that overweight

'Bribing' obese to lose weight does work, say academics
Paying obese patients to lose weight does work, according to the first academic analysis of a controversial NHS scheme.
By Martin Beckford, Health Correspondent 10:00PM BST 28 Apr 2011
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A study of 400 people who took part in a “pounds for pounds” initiative found that almost half of them lost more than 5 per cent of their body weight.
On average the subjects – many of whom were themselves NHS workers – shed 8.8lb (4kg) in a year and were paid about £180.
Researchers say it shows the scheme works as well as existing weight-loss programmes and could be extended across the country.
Dr Clare Relton, of the University of Sheffield, said: “The successful recruitment to this programme suggests that a financial incentives weight-loss programme may be acceptable to the general public and to NHS employees, and to both men and women.”
Dr David Haslam, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, said he had previously been sceptical about such schemes on the grounds that patients would pile on the pounds if they stopped being paid.
But he told Pulse magazine: “The evidence is pretty good – 4kg over a year is quite good. If we are interested in health gains then this does the business.”
In contrast to the traditional approach of the authorities to place high taxes on unhealthy products such as alcohol or tobacco, many new public health drives seek to reward people financially for stopping smoking or giving up drugs.
Despite some concern at the message being conveyed, pilot schemes suggest they they cost the same as support groups and seem to succeed as money provides such strong motivation.
In the new paper, published in the Journal of Public Health, researchers looked at a scheme set up by NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent with the help of a private company called Weight Wins.
The “pounds for pounds” initiative recruited 402 people, 42.5 per cent of whom were NHS employees. Their mean age was 45.1 years, their mean starting weight was 15.8st (101.8kg) and more than half were female.
The subjects were set weight-loss plans of varying lengths and then measured again at the end of them.
In total 44.8 per cent achieved “clinically significant” weight loss of more than 5 per cent of their body weight, with 23.6 per cent losing more than 10 per cent.
Only 38 per cent of the participants completed their plans, fewer than in existing schemes such as Weight Watchers.
But the estimated mean weight loss at 12 months of 11lb (5kg) including those who dropped out was greater than the 8.86lb (4.02kg) previously recorded in Weight Watchers trials.
Even assuming that those who dropped out returned to their original weight, the figures suggest that the overall mean weight loss for all those who took part was 8.81lb (4kg).
However patients who take weight-loss drugs or undergo gastric bypass surgery tend to lose more weight a year on.
The “pounds for pounds” scheme cost £75,000, an average of £186.57 per patient.