re: What is the one thing preventing you from losing weight?

I tried to do a mild form of keto a few years ago, but it was just too expensive. I couldn’t afford to make meat and veggies for every meal. I rely on stretching cheap cuts of meat from here to eternity with starches in order to keep my meals tasty but affordable. I’ll try it again if I get in a better place financially. Steak, grilled chicken, and cooked veggies are all things I love. I just can’t afford to do those all the time, and they don’t reheat well at work.

Rice & gravy, on the other hand, is way cheaper to make, is more time consuming but requires way less attention (a lot of crockpot) and reheats much better.

Bread. I can walk away from sugar and booze easily enough, but bread (regular bread, crackers, tortillas, pasta, pizza crust, etc.) are my Kryptonite.

Lack of exercise is a major one. But I also have a tendency to not eat much during the day and then eat way too much at night. Also take a sleep med that gives me insane munchies so it makes it that much worse.

Look into your bills and see where you can save with new contracts. A few years ago (because of inflation) I decided to do this and ended up saving 4K per year. New car insurance, new cell contract, new internet contract, I cut cable and get everything other ways, cut all extra streaming services, cut serius Xm, etc. I wasn’t even really using the stuff I cut and the rest was just getting better deals. That leaves plenty of money for healthier food

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The idea that healthy food cannot taste good is bullshite and a weak excuse.

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Relax Sharon, I don't use it as an excuse. I eat a "clean and healthy" breakfast and lunch every day. Same thing day in and day out. Supper time, I want to cook something different. I cook almost every night. Sometimes is a little "healthier" sometimes it's just comfort food.

I could look into the insurance. I already don’t have cable and only pay for one streaming service, but I could probably get a better deal from my ISP. Thanks!

Is it, though? I can take $8 worth of pork shoulder roast and make it into 8 meals worth of food my way. Or, I can get $8 worth of steak and eat it for one meal.

$5 worth of cheap deli meat and $2 worth of bread is 5 meals. $7 worth of salmon is one meal.

Heck, I made easily 8 meals worth of red beans and rice from a leftover holiday ham bone my family was going to throw away.

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Relax Sharon, I don't use it as an excuse. I eat a "clean and healthy" breakfast and lunch every day. Same thing day in and day out. Supper time, I want to cook something different. I cook almost every night. Sometimes is a little "healthier" sometimes it's just comfort food.

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Then why did you say that "good food" is one thing that is preventing you from losing weight?

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I tried to do a mild form of keto a few years ago, but it was just too expensive. I couldn’t afford to make meat and veggies for every meal.

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I was eating a shite ton of eggs. Like so much i dont really care for them now.

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It’s cheaper to eat healthy

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i guess it depends but ill bite.


At the dollar store sweet potatoes are much cheaper than a bag of potato chips.


Go with the sweet potato over the bag of chips.