Staying healthy is extremely inexpensive.  Unless you are buying blueberries for every meal, frankly fruits and vegetables are not that expensive, and the energy breakdown is much smaller.  So you actually get a greater amount of energy from the same sized piece of fruit than you would from a piece of meat for example, especially red meat.  Red meat is also full of other fat and calories in general, and it can cause other problems.  When foods are processed as much as they are in many sections you think you pay less for but actually pay more for, you end up eating more, because many of the nutrients are lost, much of the energy content is lost, etc.  And of course, all the medical bills you pay later on for not keeping up your health can be quite detrimental to say the least.  Bu tall in all, you have to remember that staying healthy is actually significantly cheaper.  And even if it’s just because you are eating fruits and vegetables rather than paying for prepackaged foods in general, you will be able to lose more weight and your grocery bill will be significantly smaller.  You don’t have to have an expensive gym membership, go to the whole foods stores that charge you a bundle, etc.  There are various options available to you.

Now I recommended to my sister in law the other day that if she wanted to lose a few pounds, she just do a fruit detox.  It’s basically a week of eating unlimited fruit, but nothing else.  It cleanses out your body, but it should only be done for a week.  It was then said that I’m not enabling him to get energy drinks, because she has been bugging him to get off them anyway, and they’re unhealthy either way.  But at the same point in time, he’s now upset that he only gets to eat fruit for the next week.  They were originally going to go on a long term diet of only fruits, vegetables, and lean protein anyway.  So it’s just one week before that.  But I knew that he would try to cheat anyway.  So I personally think it’s funny.  Actually, I already caught him drinking an energy drink.  But the way I figure it, in terms of motivation, you have to want it for yourself.  He says he wants to diet from time to time, but he doesn’t really care, and therefore whatever people say to him, he’s not going to extremes whereas if somebody says things to certain other people, they might go to extremes.  But I will be interested to be sure if she can actually make him diet in some ways, though I’m not sure how it will work out exactly speaking.

In theory at least, skin is elastic.  But it loses its elasticity of course as you age.  So if you are losing significant amounts of weight, usually 100 pounds or more, your skin is going to sag to some degree.  And if you are older when you do it, your skin is far more likely not to bounce back in general terms.  Unfortunately, this is obviously not too appealing to women and men who want to lose weight, but they don’t want to look like their skin is falling off of them.  A small amount of sag is not exactly acceptable, but you can handle it.  But a large amount of sag is obviously something different.  People tend to have a harder time with this concept.  If you want to avoid it, the best thing to do is to use a lotion that increases elasticity as you actually lose weight so it has time to work gradually along the way instead of having to treat a later existing problem.  However, otherwise, you will just be counting your luck and trying your hand at things in general.  Frankly, I wouldn’t particularly suggest testing your luck.  Its chances of coming out negatively are relatively considerable.  However, you can definitely find something that is more of a sure bet.

Now if you have a serious stomach virus, I can guarantee that you are going to lose weight.  In one case, and this was a really extreme case, over the course of a few hours, he actually lost about 35 pounds.  He gained it all back within a couple weeks, because basically he was on the toilet and otherwise throwing up simultaneously for a few hours strait, which severely dehydrated him among other things, and it is not a healthy way to go or a substantial way to go in terms of actually keeping the weight off, not that it wasn’t scary to look at him.  He didn’t need to lose weight and really couldn’t afford to lose weight in the first place.  But it’s truly amazing how much he actually had stored up in his body to lose at that point as far as things that he could lose in that way rather than having to burn off fat or otherwise.  The body is made up mostly of water and there’s stored options, so it really shouldn’t be that big of a surprise.  But that is something that I thought about the other way, and I realized that there are actually people out there desperate enough to lose even temporary weight that they would actually consider putting themselves through something like that to get it.

I’m all about saving money, but seriously?  There are some people going to Mexico to get gastric bypass surgery.  I mean I know you can get a surgery anywhere, but come on!  There are people who go for lifesaving surgeries and treatments for things like cancer in foreign countries, because American doctors have apparently told them it’s terminal and they are hoping for that one last chance.  They always turn out to be scams.  So far there have been no exceptions to this.  As far as getting a gastric bypass in Mexico, it’s cheaper yes.  It is definitely cheaper.  But frankly, it’s not worth it.  This particular statement comes from a man who lives in Cabo San Lucas.  Cabo San Lucas is actually one of the more prestigious and well off areas of Mexico.  He is not a citizen, he just happens to live there to fish and run his own business basically taking tourists out on a fishing boat.  But when thinking about medical things he said, “If I have a heart attack, I know I’m just dying.  The medical care around here isn’t that great, and they don’t necessarily know all that much about things like dealing with an immediate heart attack.”  He wasn’t too worried about it, because I honestly don’t think he would care.  It’s just a reality he’s accepted, even though he technically could move to a place with better medical availability.  But if they can’t handle that, this coming from a man who’s lived there for the past 20 years, how do you really expect them to handle a gastric bypass surgery and all its possible complications.