diets and how impossible they are

Date:   3/13/2006 1:01:04 AM ( 18 y ago)

hello to everyone reading this, i am new to this whole blog business, but i had something to say about dieting and wanted to know how many people could relate to my situation, and maybe get some insight on what i could do to change it.
i am 25 years old and have 4 children, i am a stay at home mom and my husband is a truck driver and is gone most of the time. i weighed 125 pounds when my husband and i got together 5 years ago and now i weigh a total of 202 pounds and found myself in a impossible situation, although i have every desire to lose my weight i simply can't afford to, we live on one income, which is approximately 30,000 to 35,000 a year and i can't afford to buy excersise equipment for my home or go to a gym or even to buy the outrageous diet foods that is suggested to work, although i'm very skeptical if they do or not. i recently found myself on curezone.com looking into kevin trudeaus 30 day 30 pounds weight loss diet and thought well this is a man with real concern for us and might be able to help me and i read his diet and he discussed things that i thought to myself was really no different from all these other scams, he tells you things to do then suggest you buy all these different books to learn how to do them. then he said i can eat just to change the things i eat ( buy organic meats and vegetable, and buy raw milk ) and all that sounded great till i went to the store to buy those products and they were more expensive than the bad foods i am currently buying and can barely afford them with 4 children, then he saids walk for an hour every day and by the time i get the house cleaned and kids fed and changed and lawn work done and driveway shoveled and such i don't have an hour before it gets dark and if i did i would have to walk at my 3 year old pace and push a stroller with 2 children in it at the same time. so i guess my point is that i can't afford the "organic" foods i am told to eat to lose my weight or buy the excersise equipment to lose my weight and can't afford nor do i have time for the gym, and at the end of my rope i keep hearing about all these great diets and can't find one that is legitimate and in my price range. its not the desire to lose weight i feel is the problem is the impossible prices and time, to do it. if you are like me you can't afford to keep falling for all these scams at the expense of your family and are quite fed up with it ne ways. and for those of you who might be thinking why don't she get a job, i say that cause so many people have asked me that question. here is the answer i priced all the child care facilitys within a 20 mile driving distance of my area and for 3 children that are not in school i would pay more for child care than i would make. i have limited education although i believe myself to be a smart person i do not have any college to get the kind of paying job i would need. my problem is real and i have tried weight watchers and couldn't afford to keep buying their products and believe it or not i think its a real reality that its more affordable to eat these "bad for you" products than it is to buy the "good for you" products. i will give an example i went to the health food store near me and i priced 2-12oz boxes of organic cereal for 8.17 and i can go to walmart and get 3 unhealthy sugar filled boxes for the same price. another reality is that within 40 miles of my home i have one store that sells organic foods.

 

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