Today marks the end of the first official week of our spending diet and living on cash. Skinny says it's pretty easy, I say it's not too hard. For me, I don't think about my spending obsessively. If I'm on my way to work and my tank is low, I fill up. If I'm hungry while out with a friend, I eat. I don't buy a lot of crap, but I spend more money than I should.
What it boils down to is failing to plan is planning to fail. You hear that all the time in diet world. Plan your meals in advance, plan your exercise in advance, plan your snacks, plan your drinks, plan, plan, plan.
I like to plan. I don't necessarily like to follow my plan. This is true in my diet past as well. I like to say "oh man, I'm going to do this, this, and this, and it's going to be awesome" and then it turns into none of that and no awesome.
Skinny and I have routinely made plans for meals during the week. When the week starts, we end up going out because we're tired and we're hungry. Well we have to drive 10 minutes, wait 30 minutes for food, eat for 15 minutes, wait 10 minutes for the check, then spend our hard earned money! So by the time we get home, we've spend 1.5 hours of our night and all of our extra money we earned that day. It's a little crazy.
With the spending diet, we've only eaten out once this week. I can even tell in my clothes that I'm actually decreasing a little. This whole eating at home thing is very healthy-it's cheaper and less calories.
It's interesting to me...I walk for my dogs, I eat at home for my wallet...at some point, I'll realize I'm really doing stuff for me.
We're getting ready to go to the store now. I need to make my list, clip my coupons, and get out the door!
Here's to a great Saturday! Make it special folks!
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