Lose Weight, Save Money
One of Yogi Berra’s most famous witticisms is ‘Déjà vu all over again’ a line the famous pitcher quipped while watching two home runs back to back. Just like the famous baseball player you too will get a strange feeling of déjà vu when embarking on a new diet. After all, you probably tried all this before and it didn’t work. Or perhaps you too think that dieting is just like saving money like one blogger argues. In any case you will find a certain familiarity when embarking on a diet and you should put that familiarity to good use in your quest to lose weight. And as you’re losing weight you’ll not only find yourself getting healthier but you’ll also find that at the end of the day you have more money in your pocket.
Dieting might seem like a new, daunting challenge at first but it is nothing of the sort. As the blogger above put it, dieting is often analogous to home economics: in the long run it is nothing more than accounting for calories. The number of calories that ‘go in’ should be lower than the number of calories that ‘come out’. Do this and you’ll be losing weight in no time.
Of course, what you eat matters as well, in some cases even more than how much. Even if you have a calorie deficit, getting those calories from junk food will not only not help you stay healthy (quite the opposite!) but it might lead to you inadvertently leaving your diet out of hunger or because of feeling sick. There is a reason why most diets and nutritionists recommend the same healthy foods and why fad diets like the ‘marshmallow diet’ or the ‘lemonade diet’ are almost never effective in the long run. Your body needs certain nutrients that fast food and fad diets don’t have in sufficient quantities.
That’s why you should always choose a diet that suits you. If you want to reduce calories, better make sure that you’re getting all the vitamins and minerals you need, something you shouldn’t spend a fortune for. Programs like Weight Watchers (click here for more information) have been helping millions of people cut back on calories while staying healthy for years and all this without selling expensive pre-portioned meals.
But isn’t eating healthy food more expensive? Aren’t organic vegetables significantly pricier than getting a dollar menu at the closest fast food outlet? That may be so but you don’t have to buy the most expensive vegetables if you don’t want or can’t afford it and those extra cents you pay will turn into hundreds of dollars saved on medicine and medical bills in the long run. Even better is that you’ll be saving money in the short run as well. Calorie counting diets rely on reducing your portion size so even if you splurge on really expensive foods you will still be paying less than before on average. The secret to any meal, especially those with reduced portions is to make it count. Take time cooking your food and craft something truly delicious and you won’t regret trading a greasy fast food double cheeseburger for a petite open top lean beef and mushrooms burger.
If you can’t reduce your calorie intake on your own you’ll have to settle for one variety of pre-packaged foods. If you do, try getting one of the cheaper variants, preferably one that helps you lose weight faster as well, so you don’t have to pay for expensive food for too long. The Medifast diet is a good pick as it offers healthy bite-sized foods at affordable prices delivered straight to you. This link, which you should visit now offers more information and a testimonial. If you don’t want to lose money on one of these diets the solution is quite simple: stick to the diet plan religiously and try to supplement it with running or a similar calorie-burning activity. Often you’ll still manage to save or break even on a pre-portion diet by losing weight a lot faster. You can lose twice as much weight on average on the Medifast diet or another like it with its only disadvantage being that you should gradually reintroduce your dietary staples once you’re at your target weight or risk ‘falling off the wagon’ again.
Losing weight is not hard. You just need willpower or a good diet plan. And once you’re thinner and eating less on average you might be surprised just how much money you can save and re-invest into the important things in life.
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