I save SO much money calorie counting!

Losingthedamnweight

I don't know why this shocked me so much. I never really thought too much about it. I just started this whole thang to lose weight. THAT was my only goal. But my bank account is thanking me too! I looked back at old bank statements and realized holy crap, i spent so much money on food its ridiculous. I never even bothered dieting because "oh GOD! Healthy food is SO expensive. Screw that. I'm going to jack in the box" and i had this backwards way of thinking for a decade.

A normal day for me a couple months ago i would order a pizza in the morning when they opened and that alone is $25. Then of coarse i'll be hungry mid day, so of coarse i can't starve myself right? I gotta gets me some carl's jr! That's another $15. Then maybe eat something at home (i can't believe i was still hungry at this point) and whatever i ate at home was probably $10 worth of food. $50 in one day for food? Damn. And this wasn't a rare occurrence. This was all the time. That's not even including if that day i went to a restaurant like olive garden or apple bees and spent $60+. And being a good tipper made it even worse.

I'm looking back at all this wasted money and i'm like "i could've eaten more healthy and lost weight. AND put that extra would-be junk food money in savings and after less than a year, i probably would've had enough money to buy x or something. Hell, i could've bought a new retina macbook pro! And been skinny while i unboxed the damn thing!"

I just...feel so stupid for living my life that way for so long. I'm so glad for that one night at work i decided to browse the app store and accidentally run into the fitness pal app. That free app changed my life.

bridgie101

Good call. I'm finding food cheaper too. I always cook dinner at home, but portion sizes have gone down and no more money being spent on chocolate.

Alluminati

Yup. Food seems to last longer when you are eating correct portions. My box of cereal lasted me 2 weeks when normally I could kill that bad boy within a week.

gigglesinthesun

yeah, when I put some of my recipes into the recipe thing I add in my head how much that would be per portion and it blows me away. Good luck :-)

Francl27

I totally agree. I've saved a lot of money not buying so much junk anymore.