Monday, February 1, 2010

Improving Health

What good is investing and saving money for the future if in the future it is all lost to medical bills and health expenses, or worse, not living long enough to enjoy it on account of poor health. I am an overweight desk job working individual and on top of that attending college after work eats up the rest of my free time outside of work. Exercise and eating properly is a luxury that I don't have the time for. I usually have coffee for breakfast and fast food for lunch, and by the time I get home at the end of the day even though I try to eat healthy for dinner I snack on junk food for the rest of the evening on account that I didn't eat enough during the day. This repetitive problem has left me overweight and drastically out of shape. As I have disciplined myself to save more and improve my personal finances, I have now decided that I need to improve my health by trying to loose some weight. I am still an incredibly healthy person who never gets sick, however, as the years go by I get more and more out of shape I fear that my blessings of good health are going to run out. Loosing weight in 2010 is going to become a higher priority for me.

Due to my problem with a lack of time how I loose weight creates a challenge. I need to try to fit in a proper breakfast, lunch, and dinner into my life without over eating. In the past I've tried various means to try to manage my time properly to include exercise and better eating habits with no success. At this point I have decided that I am going to use a simple managed system that will allow me to follow a weight loss program without thinking. Seeing how eating fast food for lunch alone costs me about $10 a day during the 5 day work week I have decided that I to try the Nutrisystem Flex 5 day program for a month at a daily cost of $9 per day for three meals. I am going to see if in 30 days I can loose any weight on the program while forcing myself to eat healthily including breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Trying the Nutrisystem program will actually save me money every day and hopefully help me eat healthier by cutting out the large amounts of fast food that I eat. If I have any success during the first three weeks on Nutrisystem I will allow the program to automatically renew for a discount making the cost per day even less. Loosing weight would be great and the increased savings can allow me to increase the amount of money that I am saving.