The reason the rich are thin......
...THEY CAN AFFORD IT!
After a lengthy talk with my favorite Dietician, M, a women I work with, I decided that I would try the South Beach Diet to lose weight.
"At least they have a great cookbook," said M.
And they do. I bought it. And I bought the diet book.
Even with my Barnes and Nobles membership discount I spent about $30. I read the book and cookbook. This was a week ago Sunday. (I know, I could have been reading something more interesting like Martini's "The List" but I didn't and now I don't have to.)
The following Monday I went to Meijer's with my list and for the first time in my life I scratched EVERYTHING off it. The grand total? $199.64. I was only shopping for a week.
Before going to Meijer yesterday, I sat down and did some caluclations from the first week: dollars spent: $229.64 pounds lost: 7 If I did the math correctly, thats $32.80/lb. That is some high priced fat. And I lost it!
Since I had bought so much food the first week, I really only needed a few food items for this week. And a new scale. No, this is not a vanity thing. My scale was old and I think my hubby wore it out a couple years ago when he got on it everyday while losing 26 lbs! Besides, there were times when I got on the scale and it would read one number, then change its mind and display another, never in my favor, of course.
Before I swiped my debit card in the handy little swiper and gave Meijer $210.16 of our hard earned money, I asked the woman if employees got discounts and were they hiring. She had a look on her face that said, "You bought all that damn stuff and if you're trying to tell me you can't pay for all that, I'll be pissed."
To keep it real, I subtracted the cost of the doggie toy and bones: $204.16 including scales. How did this happen? Hubby said it was because I didn't take a list this time and I probably did the thing he hates the most---I wandered through the store thinking, "We could use this. And that. And this too." Guilty.
He didn't think we needed new scales either at $40 until he got on them and he weighed less than he thought he did. I weighed a pound less on the new scales. And it didn't change its mind on me.
The food I have been buying is really healthy. No junk, except the dog bones, but they are for the dogs. Green stuff and meat are very expensive. I have been buying new spices to try and they are expensive.
For the first two weeks of this diet, I cannot have any milk products, no bread, no fruit and no alcohol. The reason being about sugars, even natural ones like lactose and fructose and maltose.
I couldn't do it.
I have successfully stayed away from the bread, dairy and fruit, but it was the alcohol that made me cheat. I have been drinking wine. I probably should have subtracted that from the total too. $-12.00.
This diet has had it's benefits so far--mostly for hubby. I seem to be doing all the cooking. He has been eating what I eat and he has decreased his beer drinking to a minimum. Actually, except for the night I kicked him out, he didn't have any beer last week! He has lost weight, of course.
Benefits for me include the loss of 8 lbs and my husband's new taste for wine. (He even mentioned going to some winerys!) And we have spent more time together at the dinner table and he helps with dinner if he gets home early enough.
Despite the cost and the cheating, I'm sticking with it. One day at a time.
Notice that I have only talked about the price of food. I haven't even talked about the cost of exercising yet. Probably because I haven't started--unless you count carrying bags of grocerys once a week.
After a lengthy talk with my favorite Dietician, M, a women I work with, I decided that I would try the South Beach Diet to lose weight.
"At least they have a great cookbook," said M.
And they do. I bought it. And I bought the diet book.
Even with my Barnes and Nobles membership discount I spent about $30. I read the book and cookbook. This was a week ago Sunday. (I know, I could have been reading something more interesting like Martini's "The List" but I didn't and now I don't have to.)
The following Monday I went to Meijer's with my list and for the first time in my life I scratched EVERYTHING off it. The grand total? $199.64. I was only shopping for a week.
Before going to Meijer yesterday, I sat down and did some caluclations from the first week: dollars spent: $229.64 pounds lost: 7 If I did the math correctly, thats $32.80/lb. That is some high priced fat. And I lost it!
Since I had bought so much food the first week, I really only needed a few food items for this week. And a new scale. No, this is not a vanity thing. My scale was old and I think my hubby wore it out a couple years ago when he got on it everyday while losing 26 lbs! Besides, there were times when I got on the scale and it would read one number, then change its mind and display another, never in my favor, of course.
Before I swiped my debit card in the handy little swiper and gave Meijer $210.16 of our hard earned money, I asked the woman if employees got discounts and were they hiring. She had a look on her face that said, "You bought all that damn stuff and if you're trying to tell me you can't pay for all that, I'll be pissed."
To keep it real, I subtracted the cost of the doggie toy and bones: $204.16 including scales. How did this happen? Hubby said it was because I didn't take a list this time and I probably did the thing he hates the most---I wandered through the store thinking, "We could use this. And that. And this too." Guilty.
He didn't think we needed new scales either at $40 until he got on them and he weighed less than he thought he did. I weighed a pound less on the new scales. And it didn't change its mind on me.
The food I have been buying is really healthy. No junk, except the dog bones, but they are for the dogs. Green stuff and meat are very expensive. I have been buying new spices to try and they are expensive.
For the first two weeks of this diet, I cannot have any milk products, no bread, no fruit and no alcohol. The reason being about sugars, even natural ones like lactose and fructose and maltose.
I couldn't do it.
I have successfully stayed away from the bread, dairy and fruit, but it was the alcohol that made me cheat. I have been drinking wine. I probably should have subtracted that from the total too. $-12.00.
This diet has had it's benefits so far--mostly for hubby. I seem to be doing all the cooking. He has been eating what I eat and he has decreased his beer drinking to a minimum. Actually, except for the night I kicked him out, he didn't have any beer last week! He has lost weight, of course.
Benefits for me include the loss of 8 lbs and my husband's new taste for wine. (He even mentioned going to some winerys!) And we have spent more time together at the dinner table and he helps with dinner if he gets home early enough.
Despite the cost and the cheating, I'm sticking with it. One day at a time.
Notice that I have only talked about the price of food. I haven't even talked about the cost of exercising yet. Probably because I haven't started--unless you count carrying bags of grocerys once a week.
1 Comments:
At 6:46 PM,
10-8-ious said…
you crack me up!
Good for you - 8 lbs -- YOU GO GIRL!
My sister "L" likes South Beach -- she lost lots of weight a couple of years a go - not really ON South Beach, mostly by sensible eating, - lots of whole grains, veggies, fruits and keeping with a good exercise program. Although she had always been a runner/jogger, but it wasn't until she got serious about healthy eating that she litterally melted away! But anyway -- she always says that when she feels like she has to "kick start" her self back into "being good", she does the first two weeks of South Beach.
I am working from home these days and also (always) trying to shed some lbs -- let me know if you want to set up a walking routine during the day (schedules permitting of course!) It's more fun to exersice with someone!
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