Bad Habits

[rob62521]

My bad habit has become cooking. I have been watching food network and see all these great recipes I want to try. My DH is thrilled because he loves to eat and I will admit we have been eating quite well, but the grocery bill has risen some.

[Jason]

My worst habit would have to be smoking...I can hear you all "oooing" through my speakers. I don't smoke more than 2-3 packs a week, but that is still $10 a week and $40 a month, $480 a year - I can go on.

[lrjohnson]

Bad habits: it's funny how many bad habits affect frugality. I go out to eat too much-I'm chubby, but even if I only ordered very healthy items and ate small portions and doggy-bagged the meal is at least 5 times what a meal could cost at home, if not ten times. So this one hits pocketbook and belly. Another bad habit, that's making me mad because it provide zero satisfaction! Buying produce and other fresh foods, then having it rot and tossing it. I just am incensed at how many bags of grapes I've tossed recently-why can't I stop? I'm also too lazy-everynight I make big plans for how I can change, and the next day: work seems like enough. Even if I make smaller plans, I can't live up. Every weekend I say I'm going to be social, and be productive, and get healthy, but, just bare minimum of laundry and dishes then the couch, and nothing social. I know that a lot of my laziness is a habit I can break. Ah, well.

[CJsoccerchic]

My bad habbits - sleeping all day long and eating when I'm not sleeping. but what can I say, I love to sleep - and I love to eat!!

[rob62521]

lrjohnson:
Perhaps if you fixed something the night before in a crock pot when you feel the urge to change would be a way to eat healthy the next day. It might be a way to start.

[cercis]

CJ - I love to sleep too. I can easily sleep 12-14 hours straight.

[lrjohnson]

Rob62651: it's true that I can use little tips to fool myself. If I can come home from work *and not sit down* and fix a meal and the next day's lunch, and maybe even do some tidying or errands, I'm good. I can pump out a good hour, hour and a half of work. Whereas if I come home and sit for a half hour, that's it, I'm done for the night. Sometimes my boyfriend is impressed because I come home from my eight hour day and pump out the work, but really, it's a mini-battle against laziness, not a victory. Crock-pots are awesome-easy, frugal, low key. I adore having left-overs-It's laziness preparation! I use my frugal tupperware (cottage cheese tubs, salsa tubs, etc.) and sock away the stews and other concoctions. Good habits can be as much of a habit as bad habits, so I just try to get something good to the habit stage. For example, I do some pretty heavy receycling-the money stuff of aluminum, soda bottles (work friends drink it!), etc., and the non-money stuff-canned food cans, paper, cardboard, sauce bottles, overused cottage cheese tupperware, etc. I've had other people find it admirable how little trash I create/how much recycling I do, but, it is really just a habit. I don't think about it, I don't try to do it, it's no effort, it's just "what I do." So, I need to make cooking good meals a habit. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Whew.

[CJsoccerchic]

cercis - thnak goodness i set my own hours at my job, or else I'd never get any sleep!!!! I can easily do the 12-14 straight too.. Funny how you can sleep so much, eh? Although, my husband has NOW been starting to call me from work early in the morning to get my day started out earlier and it annoys me, but I'm up just a bit earlier... So I guess it's a good thing.

[cercis]

CJ, I really think that I'm programmed for 9 hours of sleep, but starting at 2-3am. Well, since I can't get that during the week, I make up for it on weekends (I am lucky and have a DH who will allow me to sleep in while he watches the kids).

I only work parttime so I can often get a nap in the afternoon.

[CJsoccerchic]

That's sweet of your DH. I wish my D would let me sleep in, any chance he has of waking me up, he takes it!! hee hee

[rob62521]

lrjohnson, it sounds like you have the desire and that's a big part of the battle!

[Kelvin]

Some of the people are facing the problem of the diseases and the reason behind it is that they have the bad habits regarding the eating of the bad foods and wrong selection of the food.

[cptacek]

My bad habit is eating out for lunch. Even if I only spend $5 a day, and work 3 days a week at my job, that is $780 a year! And most of the time, I spend more than $5.

[Angio333]

My bad habit is buying and drinking way too much Dr. Pepper. The cost of pop is continually increasing and not to mention the dental bills.

[Lexie11]

I too have the same problem during my teenage, I started to follow a regime that proves very helpful to me. I just wanna share that with you. So I suggest you to start adding more interesting things to your meals and then slowly stop eating junk, there are loads of things that taste really nice and that aren't junk food, try and find more things that are nice and not junk food, maybe go for jogs and bike rides if you can't stop eating the junk food, 30 minute jogs or bike rides would do good. Its not that tough you just have to try once. And surely you gonna love this.