What Does Our Weight Have to Do With Budgets 

Part 1 of 2

   After the wedding I stopped doing Weight Watchers and stopped tracking my food. I stopped counting points and thought I had arrived. I was back at a size 6 and happy with the weight that I lost. I thought I had gotten rid of my poor eating habits and thought I could just "be careful" not to over eat. The truth is, I probably just went back to the way I was eating before I started Weight Watchers. In fact, because I was lonely and bored at home most of the time I returned to my old snacking ways. 

   My loneliness and boredom turned into baking, cooking, and snacking. I tried to fill the sadness, loneliness, and boredom with food. As silly as it sounds, that's what I did. Once classes started I made new friends and started working part time at a coffee shop to be around more people. Being an extroverted person, I feel drained when I am spending most of day by myself. I needed and desired to have human interaction; connection. Working at a coffee shop did help with increasing my socialization, but it didn't help with snacking less. I probably eat more often as I had pastries samples and syrup laden coffee readily available. 

What does my weight have to do with a budget? I had this epiphany that maintaining a healthy weight has to do with budgeting calories. I was basically putting my body into debt every day I was eating more than I was burning. When I kept eating more than I needed to; to maintain my weight I was essentially accruing debt. When I was exercising to lose the weight by becoming more active, I was trying to make minimum payments on a credit card that had no limit. I wasn't making a dent. I was working out 3-4 times a week, training for 5k runs, and also doing hot yoga. Sure, hot yoga burns a lot of calories, but when you're in debt and you keep accruing more calories, it doesn't even out. 

How did I catch up on my debt? I will tackle that Budgeting Part II