The holidays are the time to pack on the pounds and then resolve to lose them, so it’s a perfect time to find out how much does it cost to lose 10 lbs in a month? WeightLossMadeEasy rounds up the numbers of some popular diet programs.
Diet / cost per month
Atkins Diet 402.08
Diet To Go (1600 Calories) 523.96
Diet To Go (1200 Calories) 467.96
Dr Siegal Cookie Diet 224.00
Dr Sears Zone Diet 371.36
Jenny Craig 550.60
MediFast 275.00
NutriSystem 293.72
Ornish Diet 299.36
Slim Fat 310.92
South Beach Diet 314.44
Sonoma Diet 274.00
Weight Watchers 386.56
Personally, we like drinking 4 tbps of canola oil per day to lose weight. It costs $4.99 a bottle.
Diet Cost Calculation [Weight Loss Made Easy]
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A: This is factoring in the cost of food, but I don’t understand how they can factor in the cost of Weight Watchers food. O_o You can eat whatever you like, and even if you eat the branded stuff, it’s still not 350$ a month for one person.
Maybe, -maybe- if all you eat are frozen dinners, and you don’t find them on sale, but WW is built around eating whatever you like. I spend about 160 on groceries a month – and probably another 100+ on fast food, but that’s because I’m made of lame, not because I have too (and I’ve lost 10.5 in the past month.)
I’ve lost 60lb in the last year, and WW costs me 16$ a month – plus the cost of food, but everyone’s got to eat, and the food is no different then anyone else’s.
B: Crap, this reminds me I have to go grocery shopping. -_-
@samurailynn: Agreed, and also a difficult part is doing it enough that you become good/efficient at it. You know how people are always wondering how their mothers can get everything done at the same time, with nothing overcooked and nothing raw? They wouldn’t believe that that’s a skill that takes practice. But it is.
@HeyThereKiller: OMG, same here. The Adderall was fascinating in its ability to curb my appetite. I only stopped taking it because my insurance ran out. As soon as I pick up another provider, it’s on.
Weight Watchers could be a lot cheaper (as I’m sure it could be with other diets) if you used the publicly available “points” formula to determine the value of what you eat. Then you could take the cost of the meetings away… as long as you don’t need the moral support they provide.
Find an intense exercise plan that is safe for you to execute and commit to it. Kick your body’s ass in a healthy way. As you press on, you start looking at food in a different way, as in, “Is it really worth it for me to eat this after what I have to go through to make up for it?”
This past summer, for about a month, I did HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) running, where, 3 days a week, I would jog 30 seconds, sprint 30 seconds, repeat, for 4 minutes on day 1 and 2, then add a minute on day 3. I lost near 10-15 pounds (from ~175 to ~160) and felt great. Then of course I moved and didn’t get around to finding a new track, so I’m fatter now than I was before. Once Spring comes around, I’m doing it again, cause I need to kick my ass in gear.
@drjayphd: “If it was as simple to change years piled upon years of bad habits as you’d seem to think, don’t'cha think more people would’ve done it and stuck to it?” It is that simple. It’s not easy, in fact it’s pretty damn hard. But it is as simple as eating less and getting more exercise.
@rachaeljean: Weight Watchers encourages people to go to their meetings, which cost money, so that’s probably what the amount listed is referring to. There’s also a starter kit that explains everything. I can’t remember how much it normally is. I got one off of eBay and have been doing WW by myself (without attending meetings) for almost a year now, and I’ve lost 35 pounds. The grocery bill has gone up since I buy more lean meats and some diet convenience meals, like frozen dinners to take with me for lunch, but there’s been no other real cost. The meetings are good if you like support from others, but you can also find online message boards where you can get the same support for free. I’ve spent money on diet products in the past, but when it really came down to it, I just had to decide to do it. Spending a ton of money wasn’t going to help me.
@HRHKingFriday: If the holding of hands helps them to eat less and exercise more, I’m not gonna fault them.
@smitty1123: Yes, but “simple” and “easy” are different concepts. But we’re in agreement there.
1 pair of nice running shoes: ~$100.
@godai: And the hospital doesn’t have a vested interest in you failing at losing weight…
@sburnap42: it’s not that you’re doing it wrong, it’s that you gained weight just by eating too much. It’s not that simple. Many of us gain weight when we eat less. Or, gain weight eating crap, regardless of amount. I do both.
But, it’s not insanely complicated, even if it’s not as simple as all that. Gaining weight eating less just means you need to do things a little differently. The biggest hurdle is that the fat habit(s) are comfortable, and easy to slip back into, with only a wee bit of disruptive circumstance.
Nutrisystem is much better tasting now. I bought it for 5 months. It was much better than weight watchers food, and much cheaper than Jenny Craig. I lost about 10 lbs. a month. It has something to do with the glycemic index or something – not just low calories.