Comments on: Lose The Extra Weight and You Are Likely To Increase Your Wealth

By: Five Ways To Reduce How Much You Need To Retire By $300,000

Five Ways To Reduce How Much You Need To Retire By $300,000 — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:56:36 +0000

[...] spending by staying fit and living a healthy, active lifestyle. Eating low on the food chain is good for your body as well as your budget; prepackaged and processed foods often come at high prices with lower nutritional value. Similarly, [...]

By: Moneyblogga

Moneyblogga — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:52:18 +0000

In my own personal experience, conquering my abhorrent spending habits and getting my weight into check means one thing: I have conquered the addictions that resulted from years of childhood emotional and physical abuse. Realizing that I would never ‘feel better’ if I remained fat (overeating) and in debt (overspending), I confronted my negative emotions and now deal with them in healthier ways. There are myriad reasons for people being in debt or being overweight but mine was firmly rooted in a poor, abusive childhood.

By: anna

anna — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:54:52 +0000

I do agree with Alice – there’s probably a strong corellation between losing weight and becoming wealthier simply because both things are brough about by learning similar behaviors. Increase in self-discipline, self-awareness, delayed gratification never hurt anyone. And as Nathan pointed out, as a result of healthier lifestyle (we’re not talking about extreme dieting here, right?), energy levels increase as well. I really don’t think the corellation has something to do with discrimination of the overweight per se, but it has lots to do with how people change and present themselves depending on their self-perseption.