"what to eat to lose weight when your on a buget"

[kleenex40]

Does any one have suggestions??

[monnee]

A daily diet of fruits, veggies, and water.   

[pattersondebra]

I tried to stick with alot of fruit, but it is so expensive. Cottage cheese is good but the cost is gradually rising there too.

[Storm61115]

its budget and it's ramen noodles if u can stand them. they have alot of sodium in them but they are easy to make and good.

[nickylanena]

A daily diet of fruits, veggies, and water.  

I tried to stick with alot of fruit, but it is so expensive. Cottage cheese is good but the cost is gradually rising there too.

I agree with these two comments; I think you should eat a lot of vegetables, fruit and water, but these things are becoming more expensive. They still are your best bet, though.

[gramev64]

If you cut out the sweets, believe me you will lose, and after a while you won't even miss them (the sweets and the pounds and inches!)

[kawmeenar]

Definitely agree on the fruits, veggies, and water. I find that buying them in bulk saves a lot, because you can always store the rest for later in the fridge or freezer. Also, it's good to buy frozen fruits and veggies versus the fresh ones if on a budget. Of course, fresh is always best, but it can get expensive. So buying packages of, say, frozen mixed veggies, is alright too.

[cford6]

I buy the lean cuisine meals for myself they seem to help and Im on a budget other times I just tend to eat a lot of salads and fruit.

[patti4me]

I love to eat fruit but that has really gotten expensive and so have homemade salads if you put much in it besides lettuce and tomatoes.  When I was working and went on a diet I fixed a big salad on Sunday evening and would fix an individual serving in a small container to carry to work:  I would buy lunch meat, roll it up and cut it in little sections and put that on top of my salad.  That worked pretty good but after a few months I couldn't stand the lunch meat in it and would just eat the salad.  I'm on weight watchers now and only occassionally buy the dinners.  We just cook what we would normally cook but I cut way down on the quantity I eat.  I watch my points and try to drink a lot of water.  So far I've lost almost 11 pounds with weight watchers and the only added expense to it has been the fruit I buy to snack on.  Good luck with whatever way to try to diet.

[lgemini]

Stop buying junk food and start snacking five small meals a day and workout more.

[southernhorizons]

You know, fresh fruits and vegetables seem to be expensive if you're on a budget, but actually, if you don't buy junk food like sweets, chips, soda, etc, you'll find you have more money to afford the healthy stuff. Also, canned foods seem to be cheap, but if you bought the ingredients for, say, soup, and made it yourself, you could make a lot more for the money you spend. We grew up poor, and my father could never afford any processed foods, so we always had simple homemade meals. They are a lot healthier, and a lot cheaper in the long run!

[lorettahknox]

Go plain it's the easiest way. Fruit, vegetables raw and steamed, no red meat (too fatty) no pork (too salty) broiled chicken, turkey and fish no fried foods, salads no creme based dressings. Try balsamic and italian or oil and vinegar. No potatoes, no pasta, no sweets. I lost 5 pounds like this. It took two weeks.

[africanclaudie]

A few tips that made me lose some pounds are......don't eat later than 7pm (so that you can digest your food long before you got to bed) and dish up smaller portions in a side plate. It looks like a lot of food, but is about half of what I used to eat. Good luck!

[champak97]

Eat real food and stop buying processed junk. Fill your plate with good carbs like brown rice, lots of veggies and protein. Become a vegetarian and your grocery bill and waist will automatically go down.

[bigedshult]

Isa $64,000 question that every would like an answer to? So I don't have an answer for you. My wife has been trying lots of different diets weight watchers and Nutrisystem and three for those other things, diets but they don't seem to work very long because they get tired of the food and they are expensive to.so if you know will always in a you can lose weight on a budget more power to you I haven't found one. My wife has decided to have bypass surgery on her stomach to help her lose weight! I am hoping it will work for her she needs to lose about 46 do you count she weighed about 200 and some pounds and she's only 4'7".