Part 2: Losing Weight and Saving Time

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Part 2: Losing Weight and Saving Time

Hi there, welcome to the podcast. Today I’m bringing part 2 to you of this little 3-part podcast series and this one is all about losing weight and saving time. This episode will be especially valuable for anyone who feels they currently have a lack of time. Which I know is quite common, and especially common amongst career women. So, let’s get to it.

First, I want to just quick mention that after I recorded, edited and published part 1 last week, which was on losing weight and gaining money, I realized I forgot to mention another big way that you’ll gain money when you lose the weight you want to lose if you’re overweight.

So, body weight is not solely, but very largely related to consumption, right? Consumption of food. So, if you’re overweight, typically that means you’re overconsuming compared to what you’re burning.

Oftentimes, when humans overconsume with one thing, they over consume with other things. Therefore, if you personally overconsume on food, you may find that you overconsume on other things.

For example, you may over consume as far as buying things. You might over consume social media or TV. You might over consume with alcohol or even caffeine.

So, if you learn the skill to consume less, because you’ve learned to change the way you think and feel about food and yourself so that your actions are different, you’ll start consuming less in other areas as well. Because you’ll have learned the skills needed to break that overconsumption habit.

When you break the overconsumption habit as far as food, you’ll find that you start breaking this over consumption habit in these other areas like shopping, TV, alcohol, etcetera.

Not to say that someone who overconsumes food over consumes in all of these areas, but the tendency is that at least one of these other areas, over consumption does occur. Now imagine all the money you could save if you learn the skills not to overconsume…you’ll find yourself shopping less, maybe drinking less alcohol, which can be a big cost savings, especially when going out to eat.

This all typically boils down to an underlying issue of wanting to eat our feelings away, drink our feelings away, shop our feelings away and even scroll our channel surf our feelings away. And that’s just a result of not being taught how to process emotions, but instead to sort of cover them up.

That’s one of the big ways I help my clients with emotional eating…by helping them process emotions rather than let them drive the action of eating in response.

I just wanted to mention that one because I felt like that last episode was not complete because I failed to mention this. So I wanted to mention it in this one at least.

If you haven’t listened to part one on losing weight and gaining money, go back and listen to that one. You will be amazed that how much money you will save. I’m talking 10s of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Alright, onto losing weight and saving time. First, I want you to think about all the time that you spend thinking about food, thinking about your body and your weight, your cravings. It’s hard to really put a number or amount on this, because it will highly vary person to person, but imagine this. Let’s just say that you spend a total of just 10 minutes a day thinking about these things. Now, I think that’s being extremely conservative, because it actually could easily be an hour a day, maybe even more.

If you multiply 10 minutes a day by 365 days in a year, that comes out to be 60.8 hours in a year. And now let’s just say, you have 20 years ahead of you. That would be 1,217 hours that you could save in total time in the future just from no longer thinking about these things.

And remember, that was with the conservative amount of 10 minutes a day. That’s a decent amount of time saved! Imagine all you could do with that time saved. Things you enjoy doing. Or things that you’d rather be thinking about.

That’s huge right there. Especially when you consider that thinking about food, your body, weight loss probably causes you to not feel so good oftentimes. So, you’d not just be saving time that you could be using for something else more enjoyable or for another goal you have in mind, but also, you’ll be saving yourself from the negative feelings that can come with these thoughts.

And if you’re feeling better in general because you’re no longer thinking, obsessing even, imagine the energy you’ll have. Imagine how feeling better will change how each day plays out. Feeling better will impact your actions. How you show up in the world, for yourself and for others.

Now, in addition to thinking about food, weight loss, etc., there is time spent on the actions. The actions of listening to my podcast, reading blog posts or articles, listening to other podcasts, looking things up on the Internet as far as weight loss, cravings, and whatnot, that adds more time.

Also, if you’re eating less, that means you’re probably spending a little bit less time on the action of eating.

And remember earlier when I mentioned that typically with over consumption of food, you also get over consumption of social media, TV, and shopping? So imagine the time saved by doing less of all of those actions as well.

I remember when I had a lot of anxiety. Anxiety every day. It was just my baseline. I didn’t even know why I had it. I spent so much of my free time reading books on it, doing workbooks to try to help myself. I of course was thinking about it a lot too.

I even went to therapy, which helped temporarily. But it wasn’t until I was educated on how much control I really did have over my anxiety and learned some life coaching stills, that I really treated my anxiety. Now, I barely have any besides the normal occasional anxiety like when my husband was on a tall ladder replacing the flood lights on our house.

All that time spent over the years that I would’ve kept spending if I hadn’t learned a few skills, would have really added up substantially. Probably even worsening because I would have become more desperate to treat it.

So, let’s just say that you spend 4 hours less a week on all the actions that I mentioned a couple of minutes ago having to do with eating, weight loss, cravings, etc. That number might be a little conservative or it might be a lot conservative, depending upon how much time a person does spend on each of these things, especially with TV, social media scrolling, shopping.

But spending 4 hours less a week on all these actions equates to 208 hours in a year. And let’s say you have those 20 years ahead of you. Again, this may be conservative. It may be more than that, it may be less than that. But, that would be a total of 4,160 hours. So, we’re up to 5,377 hours.

Alright, so now let’s talk about some of the potential health implications or results that stem off of being overweight or obese.

So, let’s just say we have a person named Jane and she is 50 lbs. overweight due to an overconsumption of desserts and not-so-healthy snacks. Jane is starting to notice some lower back pain. She also has high blood pressure and was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

She’s noticing that she moves around more slowly because of the low back pain and just doesn’t get around as well in general and feels that this is due to her body weight. Takes her longer to do things. She’s also going to the doctor’s office more often because of her recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes.

She has to take medication now, which she takes the time to go and pick up every day and also making sure that she is monitoring her blood pressure once a week as well.

All the time spent doing these things, ranging from the little things like taking the medication and monitoring blood pressure once a week, all the way up to taking time off from work to go to the doctors, waiting in the doctor’s office, driving to and from the doctor’s office. This all adds up time wise.

So as far as losing weight and saving time, typically with weight loss and especially if the weight loss is due to eating habit changes, you’ll most likely see better health overtime. Less visits to the doctor’s office. Less hospital stays. Less going to get blood work or diagnostic tests done.

If you’re having joint or back pain, less time spent dealing with all of that, because getting closer to a healthier body weight it usually means less pressure on your joints and your spine. Oftentimes that means less progression of pain due to things like osteoarthritis, degenerative disc disease or spinal stenosis.

Now let’s imagine that Jane has lost 40 pounds of the 50 and she did this with eating habit changes that she feels she can sustain for life. She also is mixing in a little bit more exercise, making sure she gets good sleep and is hydrating along with a few other healthy habits that she has developed along the way that have also assisted with the weight loss. She is noticing less back pain, which means that she can get around a lot easier. She’s able to do more of the activities that she used to enjoy doing.

She has also been able to get her blood pressure back down to normal, and her physician or physician assistant allowed her to come off of the blood pressure medication and just manage with lifestyle.

She’s also been able to substantially decrease the medication she’s taking for the type 2 diabetes and her doctor feels that she can probably also come off the medication for that as well pretty soon.

Just imagine all the time that Jane has saved from here until the rest of her life. Now of course, other health issues might come up, but when you are changing your habits to lose weight, you’re changing your lifestyle. Or at least a significant enough component of it.

Therefore, you are at least controlling what you can control. And that feels really good.

Okay, so another big health related one is that usually when you decrease these diseases that are associated with eating habits and with being overweight, you are typically prolonging your life span.

You’re typically going to be living longer than if you had continued at the current weight or continued gaining weight and kept certain eating habits that led to that weight in the first place.

For Jane, our imaginary career woman, was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and HTN due to her diet. So, the likelihood of her dying at an earlier age due to these diseases was higher than if she didn’t have either of these.

By changing her eating habits, losing weight and reversing the diseases to some extent, she is increasing the likelihood that she will live longer. Now that my friend, is a real time savings, right?

Even if you just lived a year longer because you’ve gotten down to a healthier weight, that’s huge. To be exact, that’s 8,760 hours. So, we’re up to 14,137 hours, and that’s just prolonging your life by a year. It could even be 10 years. Especially if it’s a sudden life-threatening event like a heart attack or stroke, or even sepsis from an infection from diabetes.

So, I’m not this to scare you or to be morbid and dreary, but it’s more so to just shed the light on how much time and how much life can really be saved with eating habit changes that help you lose weight, if you’re overweight.

That helps to create more motivation to start taking some action. And motivation to keep you going when you’re making the changes. Because along the way, along your weight loss journey, you are going to need as much motivation as you can get.

You can also create motivation, which is just a feeling, with your thoughts, which I help you with, but of course it’s great to really boost up that motivation as much as you can with whatever you can.

Alright, so there are some other ways that are sort of smaller ways that losing weight can help you save time, but I really wanted to give you some of these bigger main categories. That’s because it’s easier to see the relationship between losing weight and saving time with these larger categories.

So, if you’re tired of wasting your time and you see the value in saving time, especially prolonging your life and being able to create more time than you do now, I can help. Just go to the episode page and you’ll see where you can book a free consult with me.

You’ll have a whole hour, so no feeling like you’re rushed like at the doctor’s office. You can tell me where you’re struggling with your eating habits and weight loss, and I can give you a clear path on how we can get you to where you want to be.

I can guarantee that you’ll leave at the very least feeling like you’ve been listened to, are more clear on what the issues really are, and the proper solutions. So you can book that free consult on the episode page if you’re listening from my website.

I’ve also put the link right in the episode description if you are listening from your favorite podcast app. Let’s get started helping you lose weight and save lots of time period thanks for listening and I’ll talk with you soon.