Podcast #22 Show Notes

Weight Loss Tiki Podcast

Hosted By: Kary Has

Podcast Episode: 22, Dieting on a budget

Sponsored By: The Best Life Weight Loss Plan & Interactive Journal

Short Story Featured: The group of frogs

Link: https://www.upliftingstream.com/the-group-of-frogs-encouragement-story/

The moral of the story is:

keep going

don’t look back

don’t allow anyone to derail you

don’t allow yourself to make up excuses to give you an out

to relieve temporary pain in order to give yourself short term pleasure

and as far as the excuse: I don’t have enough money to eat healthy

This is not valid…

I guarantee you do

You will probably even SAVE money

Welcome to Dieting on a budget

we touched on this in episode 9- popular weight loss excuses

many people think they will need to go to expensive health food stores and supplement stores

hire a trainer and diet coach and personal chef

maybe even a personal assistant that can walk around with you and slap the food out of your hands

Have you ever looked at thin celebrities and think they can stay thin or lose baby weight since they have so much money

Unless their money goes towards liposuction

they have what we have

24 hours in a day

ability to count calories

freedom to focus on anything they would like to focus on

and arms and legs and lungs just like we do

you may argue and say they have access to the best fitness instructors and cooks money can buy

if you have the internet, or access to you tube- you do too.

Once you drop the excuses, you will start seeing progress

I can tell you honestly- I spend less money since acquiring my healthy habits

For a handful of reasons

1. I “pack” more

I premake all my meals except my dinners on Sunday for the upcoming week-

takes guess work out of what to eat when hunger strikes to stay healthy

packing is almost always less expensive than buying

for example- even if you think it might be cheap- if you swing through fast food

and order a drink and something to tide you over- you are normally spending 4-5$

for that amount you could buy a tub of hummus, a bag of baby carrots and bag of celery and have snacks for the entire week

or a bag of apples or oranges or pears and a pack of 5 individual 100 calorie peanuts

or a pack of string cheese, carton of eggs to hard boil, AND bunch of bananas

all for under 5$ for a week

AND all of these options are most likely healthier than those chicken fingers, or those fries or milk shakes at the drive thru

2. The second reason you save money- you eat LESS

I used to look at my bank statements and I was amazed sometimes at how much I spent at fast food, gas stations, and restaurants

all throughout my week

because I was always hungry (not physically hungry, emotionally hungry- discussed in podcast 20)

and it was habit to give myself food when I wanted to make myself feel better. And looking back- I must have felt bad a lot

3. Less ordering in due to inadequate planning, organization mishaps, or low energy

For me- we ordered in and ate out often because I didn’t have energy to cook- to stand in the kitchen for a half hour or an hour after work

was way too much for me. I timbered over onto the couch after work and barley moved