Soul-Food-Diet

Finances make me smile. Not always my own, but the IDEA of finances brings me joy. I am not normal so you do not have to mention this concept. My weird concepts are well documented and I accept the fact that I am peculiar.

The other day I was writing about weight loss and I thought about how the idea behind weigh loss is the exact opposite of developing a budget but at the same time it is very similar. I think that if you follow the simple steps for developing a budget then the weight loss will pour off rather easily.

Weight Loss Budget Steps

1. Write down everything that you eat for one full week. This includes even the “bites” of food or pieces of candy. Every single morsel that goes in your mouth must be documented. For a weight loss budget it is best to break the amounts apart by day.

2. Write down all of the exercise that you get each day. Skip the “walked to the car” entries and focus on the sustained exercise like “thirty minutes playing soccer with the kids” or “twenty minutes fast walk.” Keep these separated by day as well.

3. Figure out how many calories you have been consuming. With the weight loss budget you will not have to count the calories but you will need to know the beginning amounts so that you can begin to understand why your “account” is out of balance. There are a number of different websites that will help you with these totals.

4. Figure out how many calories you have been burning. Your body naturally burns calories even if you are just sitting around all day. This is to help figure out how many calories you are burning in addition to those.

5. Look at the number of calories that you are bringing in and the number of calories that you are putting out and start making your adjustments.

It is only at the last step that the weight loss budget really differs from the financial budget. A weight loss budget wants to put out more than it brings in. A financial budget wants to bring in more than it puts out. The weight loss budget requires that you cut the intake or increase the outflow in order to achieve the desired result which is permanent weight loss.