Avoid the ‘recession 15’ with these 10 tips

1. Don’t buy that $1 meal!

2. Find healthy meal alternatives.
3. Keep your gym membership if it’s a lifesaver for you.
4. Haggle at the gym.
5. Just let your gym membership go if you never use it.
6. Walk or jog your way to fitness.
7. Put some air on those old bike tires.
8. Pick up some secondhand exercise equipment.
9. Or just do simple, at-home workouts.
10. Give workout videos a try.

Some tips I am keeping up with are:
Tip 3: keeping the membership if it is lifesaver. I am still paying my $40 for WW a month because it is my lifesaver. Before WW I was gaining 1.5 lbs a month. In my 29 weeks of weight watchers I have maintained or decreased in size. For me, if I gain anymore weight I am sure I will get in the diabetes range and that medicine can run anywhere from $15 with co-pays to $100s a month without insurance.

Tip 10: I am back to doing my old school Richard Simmons tapes. They are fun to do because him in those shorts keeps me laughing.

Richard Simmons Offers Weight Loss Advice to Jessica Simpson

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New Blog Contributor

My name is Lisad00. Thealogian has asked me to contribute to this blog.

Here are the top things that shape my diet/food thoughts:

• Being at a top weight of 271 lbs
• Currently being a member of WW
• Having successfully lost weight with the Richard Simmons Foodmover
• Being a Woman
• Being Black
• Have spent time on a 600 calorie a day diet

I want to offer the following to this Blog:

• Commentary on food and weight perceptions brought to you different media outlets
• Honest comments on my current journey with Weight Watchers