The real cost of losing weight

Here was my weight loss plan, which I used to lose 20 pounds and keep it off for the last 3 years.  Are you ready for this?

 

Eat less food and go for a jog 3 times a week for 30 minutes.

 

That's it.  I still eat whatever I want, but now I just eat less of it. 

I lost 20 lbs. in 20 days and am now 37 lbs. lighter than I was after my doctor scared me and told me if I didn't lose weight I'd get diabetes.  Blood sugar now well within spec at 90 my last physical.  How did I do it.  The first 20 days, 1000 calories of exercise and 2000 calories of food max with an ice cream cone at the end of the day to reward myself for limiting myself to 2000 calories of food.  I now do 1000 calories of activity a day with Sunday off and am keeping the weight off.  The doc told me this about 7 or 8 years ago and I've kept the daily routine up.  Cost - it used to be $450 a year at the gym, but now it's free I walk and ride my bicycle and sometimes make money doing it by picking up aluminum cans I see in the street and selling them at the recycling center.  On a typical day of walking and biking I'll see 4 aluminum cans worth about 10 cents, so now I make about $3.00 a month walking and riding my bicycle.

You lost me at "Lady Ga-Ga"...no desire to read any further.

I guess if you end up spending a bunch of money, it makes it more difficult to put off losing weight? I don't know, the only cost I have incurred for my weight loss has been running shoes and clothes, and the cost to enter 10k races to motivate myself to train for them. It took me several years of tweaking the running and adjusting my diet to finally start seeing results, but in the past 5 months I've trimmed down 3 holes on my belt! I've still got a few left to go down, but I definitely didn't spent thousands of dollars trying to get here. And, now that I have my lifestyle adjusted correctly, as long as I keep these habits up, I won't have to worry about putting weight back on in a  year or two. The biggest thing is that you have to motivate yourself, which is very tough when you're overweight, but very worth it in the long run.

There are plenty of people who purchase exercise equipment with the best of intentions...  and soon store them unused in their garages or sheds.  I would suggest anyone wanting such equipment should buy them second-hand and save a lot of money
   Years ago I lost over thirty pounds by doing calisthenics for about an hour a day, 6-7 days a week and being careful of what I ate.   Unfortunately, when I ended the program, the pounds crept back.
And the older you get, the harder it is to lose weight.

Avoid sugar, period.  Lost 67 pounds 8 months,  still have to get out an exercise which becomes easier and easier with less weight.  No juice, no soda, no bread with high grams of sugar white bread, no deserts, no cocktails with high sugar mixes, red wine is fine.  What I eat lean meats, salmon awesome, avocados, almonds, veggies, fruit, coffee moderation, multigrain breads.  I have completely avoided milk, I do have some cheese.  Feel great try it for a month, I have tried to eat a slice of strawberry pie that I used to love but now my body has actually rejected it as soon as I took a bite, all I could taste is the loaded sugar, and hated it.  

stop eating so much and walk, stop trying to park so close to the front  of the store, park get out and walk a little!!!!!!   weight loss should save you money

You can loose a good amount of weight over time if you stop drinking sugary drinks, eating sugary, and salted snacks alone! If not, you still won't gain weight as fast anyways.