Diet On A Budget

The week before payday is always a diet challenge for me, cupboards are starting to look a bit empty and its time to spread what you have left in them over the last few days.  Not the option of having what you would like but having whats left. 

It's like a crossroads though, you either go down the road of eating whatever is in the house and when you gain at the scales you blame it on not having the right things in the house to be good

OR

You make the best of what you have and still count it all. 

Too many times I have taken the first road, telling myself I will have to wait til payday to refill the cupboards with all the low point, healthy goodies to keep me on track.  What that really means is all the low point snacks that I have extra to my normal meals, or the branded goods that are often twice the price but the same pro points.

Well not this time, I will prove that I can lose weight without spending a fortune. don't get me wrong its a challenge as I don't care what anyone says, being good, for me at least, is more expensive. Fruit being a perfect example, being a zero hero, i would love to keep refilling the fruit bowl but to have a nice variety is proving costly.  Yes if i was able to shop around, or maybe go to a market I would ind cheaper items but I work full time to finding extra time to go around different shops is tricky.

I find that the lower pointed items are the ones made by big brands so then you pay more for them. This of course tends to be for convenience foods, if cooking a recipe from scratch, using fresh ingredients can keep the costs down, but again I don't always have time to venture into the kitchen as much as I would like, so convenience foods it sometimes has to be.

I am going to make it a mini mission to try and cut my food bill without effecting my weight loss over the next few weeks, saving for our summer holidays is a great incentive to save a few pennies. 

I won a Weight Watchers Smart Cook Book last week through the Twitter feeds so will look forward to it arriving and hopefully it will help me with my cooking on a budget.

The hardest bit will be cutting back on my terrible addiction for Diet Pepsi / Coke.  I drink far too much and don't even want to work out how much I spend on it.  I am sure someone once told me too much sweetener can slow down your weight loss, or maybe i just imagined it but i know too much caffeine isn't good for me so I am also going to try and cut down on this. 

So simply,  I am hoping to Lose Lbs while Saving £'s. 

I like a challenge x