It can be hard to lose weight without the proper motivation. It turns out a million dollars is proper motivation.
ABC News report professional poker player Walter Fisher made a $1 million bet with his friends to reach his goal weight—and won. After a four-week gambling hot streak collapsed in devastating fashion, the 36-year-old Fisher found himself hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and up to 50 pounds heavier.
He tells the New York Post he was "broke, big, and isolated." He attributes the weight gain to "amazing, wonderful, rich" casino food—double veal parms, full pizzas, single-serving chocolate cakes. "It was disastrous," Fisher says. He was 245 pounds with 33% body fat. His friends bet him $1 million he couldn't get down to 10% body fat in six months.
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