Burning Fat on the Cheap

Don’t waste your money on “diet fads”. It seems like every year, some “recognized” expert writes a book about how the celebs lose weight and look great. People literally trample all over each other to buy this nonsense – let ‘them and stay out of the way. Nothing is wrong with paying for good information, but do your homework first.

Put down that diet coke and drink a glass of water. Water, after all, even if you buy the bottled kind – especially in bulk - is cheaper. Ditto for juices, teas and coffee. Did you know that $5 cup of coffee probably has more calories than the breakfast you skipped?

Do you like to drink? Then you like to stay fat or turn into an alcoholic. Alcoholic beverages contain 150 calories each – a beer, a shot or a glass of wine – it’s all the same, Fattening and bad for your health. Don’t let the small benefits that light drinking may bring fool you – it’s still bad calories. Guess what? It’s also expensive.

Here’s another good one: walk. You know, one foot in front the other? To the store, to work, to public transportation - walking is great transportation – use it whenever you can. It’s free!

Bicycling, while requiring a bike, is also much cheaper than filling your car with $3.00 per gallon gas. Plus, it’s fast and free. Even inexperienced riders can cover 5 miles in less than 20 minutes. Get a bike basket and you can even do light shopping. Burn the fat and save. Don’t forget about the saving you will realize by lowering your weight. Experts are now saying that by 2025 more the two thirds of the population in the U.S.A will be OBESE. That is grossly fat for the uninitiated. Being slimmer is less expensive.

Your car uses less gas, they don’t try to charge you for two seats on the airlines and it’s not necessary to buy small tents to cover you body. The savings in healthcare costs? Forget about it – there is no price you can put on that. Think how expensive even a short stay in the hospital could be for some illness that could have been prevented by being slimmer and healthier.

Here’s an excerpt form the NY Times about fat people:

… their life insurance premiums are two to four times as large. They can expect higher medical expenses, and they tend to make less money and accumulate less wealth in their shortened lifetimes. They can have a harder time being hired, and then a harder time winning plum assignments and promotions.

We’re not talking about people who are merely carrying a few extra pounds, or only those who are Jabba the Hutt in their dimensions, either. People carrying 30 to 40 pounds extra can be affected.

Fat people get diabetes at a rate well above normal people – how much does that cost?

Complications from obesity, particularly diabetes, which afflicts 21 million Americans, push up the bill: $44,000 for a heart attack, $40,200 for a stroke or $37,000 for end-state kidney disease, estimates Judith A. O’Brien, the director of cost research at the Caro Research Institute, a health costs consulting firm. Amputating just a toe, a not uncommon consequence of untreated diabetes, averages $15,000, she estimates.

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That’s the college money for your kids, the down payment on a house or a used Lexus – which would you rather have?

Not convinced? Keep Supersizing it and see how expensive being lonely is. Don’t use the “high cost” of losing weight keep you from starting today – just think of all the money you’ll save.

Next up: The Top Ten Fat Burner Exercises

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