Going on a financial diet!

We are getting very close to opening our first envelope on our final debt-free push. So far this year we have paid $918. Yes!!! In order to get this huge snowball rolling, our finances had to go on a diet! We have correlated our financial journey to a diet so many times it is really starting to click now! We are financially overweight, in order to dig out of this hole, we have to cut our spending (calories) and create good habits (exercise). It takes discipline- everyday! A quote that keeps coming around to us is "Do the next right thing!" That sounds so much easier to do the next right thing than to look at our 35 envelopes and become discouraged.

This past year my husband, Chris, was the master of discipline in his eating habits. In 2011, he lost 90 pounds and since we've been married he's cut 110 pounds. People come up to him and ask him how he did it and he's most frustrated that he doesn't really know what to tell them! He didn't do anything unreal like a fad diet, or find a magic weight-loss food, he didn't exercise hours on end- he just cut calories and kept track of them everyday. If he missed his calories one day, he just picked back up the next day. It might change the way you look at a budget when you think about it related to counting calories. We aren't doing any get rich quick scheme to pay off our debt, we are just doing the next right thing...as boring as that sounds! :)

Chris just started his own weight loss blog- http://chrisbrownweightloss.blogspot.com. So proud of him!

June 2007- The day we got engaged- on top of the Empire State Building! 

November 2011 - Four years of marriage and 110 pounds lighter!