How Much Money Will You Spend to Shed a Pound? Part 2by Valorie Delp | More from this Blogger 05 Jun 2007 03:44 AM This is the second part of a blog started yesterday. Click here to check it out! Jenny Craig Touted by stars like Kirstie Allie and Valerie Bertinelli, Jenny Craig does nutritional counseling and works with you one on one to develop a menu plan. I could not figure out from their website whether or not you had to buy the food, but I am going to assume that at the very least, you are strongly encouraged to buy their food! How much you pay depends on which program you choose. Again, let's assume that you want to lose 20 pounds. You would likely sign up for the Jenny On Track program which lasts 6 months. (Most people lose two pounds per week. . .approximately 5 months.) Then you have to buy the food. I've figured the average cost of food for 24 weeks (approximately 6 months.) Jenny Craig On Track Plan: $199 for 6 months of counseling, menu plans, etc. Food at $117 per week for 24 weeks is $2808. Grand Total (for 6 months): $3,007 (Just as a side note, I spend approximately $125 on food per week to feed my family of 7!) Weight Watchers Out of the diet centers previously mentioned this one is the most popular one. People like that you don't have to stop eating your favorite foods. However, you do have to control your portions. I think too, people like the 'points' system where you follow guidelines as to how many points you can have a day. It makes keeping track of your intake easier. Again, to lose 30 pounds, we'll assume that you have to go for approximately 15 weeks. Registration fee (one time): $20 (depends on location) Weekly Meeting Fees: $10.00 for 15 weeks = $150 For a grand total of $170. Of course you have to buy food but one of the nicer things about weight watchers is that although they do sell weight watchers food, you don't have to buy it. The diet works through portion control of regular foods that you eat every day. Look soon for a follow up article comparing cost of weight loss to using other weight loss tools. Related Articles: The Cabbage Soup Diet Worked for Me! Learn more about Valorie Delp  Hello everybody! My name is Valorie and I am one busy lady! When I'm not writing or editing for families, I am busy trying to get my brood of 5 in line. Relevantweight loss tags holidays | baby | Kids | Coupons | children | Scrapbooking | pregnancy | weight loss | christmas | Food User Comments martynstrong (36) 14 Jun 2007 01:02 PMI spent $200 on a digital camera and $150 on software, a case etc. I then lost 90 pounds in two years. But so far I saved $260 on food because I am eating less. So my cost per # is $1. All I do to take off the pounds and keep them off is to take a photo of each thing that I eat. So far that comes to 1000's of food photos. I have keep the weight off for 3 year now. So I think taking photos of what you eat is the lowest cost way of taking off weight (cost per pound). Discuss this article
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