In early June ’09 I read an article about a New Zealand woman who had earned $10,000 USD for losing 60 pounds over 18 months through your website in the US. At the time I was weighing in at 207 lbs and at 5’ 6” needed to do something about it. I looked up stickK.com and found I could put a contract on myself to keep me on track for my own weight loss. So I decided to give it a go and to make sure I stuck to my goal of losing 52.5 lbs I told as many people as possible. Every Tuesday morning on my radio show at 8:15am I weigh myself live on-air. The support has been amazing and a number of my listeners have taken up the challenge of their own weight loss goals.

Using stick.com has made me accountable and that has been the biggest difficulty to overcome.

In early Feb 2010 I will undertake one of New Zealand’s toughest adventure races. Which consists of cycling, mountain running and kayaking 150 miles in one day across the South Island from sea level on the West Coast up 3280 feet over the Southern Alps range finishing on the shores of the East Coast. Not only a huge personal challenge, but a great opportunity for my chosen charity Heart Children New Zealand. I will be raising much needed funds and awareness for this organization helping families whose children have heart defects. For some children they face multiple operations and months of recovery time in and out of hospital.

Without stickK.com I doubt my own will would have been enough. Putting my money where my mouth is and let’s face it being a radio DJ it’s pretty big! Without stickK.com the dream of competing in the Speight’s Coast to Coast race and helping out Heart Children New Zealand wouldn’t have been possible.