5 Money-Saving Tricks We Used to Lose 150 Pounds
Learning to make the best of a bad situation actually helped us in more ways than one.
When we lived in Minnesota, we lived in excess in every sense of the term.
We ate too much. We drank too much. We partied too much.
We were completely reliant on modern chemistry to fix whatever ailed us.
Our lives revolved around a schedule of work, doctor appointments, and social marathons of overconsumption and overspending. We were overweight, unhealthy, and apathetic to what we were doing to ourselves.
When my husband and I moved to Denver from Minneapolis, we did so with one goal… to change the way we lived.
I had just left a successful 20-year career in Information Technology to become a freelance writer, while he had a 25-year career in manufacturing. Obviously, the change in our financial situation forced a few changes in how we were living, so we decided to make the best of it and use scarcity to our advantage.
My husband lost 60 pounds in 10 months, and a year later, we were down a collective 150 pounds. Eight years later, we’re holding strong — although admittedly, our weight fluctuates with the seasons and our activity levels, we average out the same.
