Hello, whinnebers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 115 for you need a budget where we teach you

full rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money.

Today I want to talk about dieting, just kidding. I want to talk about

moving the needle and fasting. When you go on a spending fast, which is what I'm proposing, you're trying to move

your needle and create a new state of rest. You're wanting to create a new average, a new normal. So in addressing this, you might

say, you know what, I'm going to do a little spending fast,

I'm not going to eat out for a week, or I'm not going to eat out for a month, or I'm not going to eat out

for three months, whatever it is, whatever would move the needle.

If you eat out once every three months already, that would not be what we're talking about here.

But if you find, for instance, that you are buying your lunch every single day, and you'd like to maybe do that less you go on

a spending fast and you tell yourself you know for just a short time I'm going to be

a little bit extreme. My coworkers are going to raise

their eyebrow at me. My spouse is going to say I'm crazy. My kids are going to wonder

what's happened. That kind of crazy. Happens with dieting and people swing back, right? They swing back the other way.

I don't want you to do this to where you're going to always and forever be just absolutely miserable. I just want you to move

the needle to where if you're cutting out bread from your diet, you cut it out, a whole just cold turkey, no more bread, for a week or two, and then reintroduce

the bread. But you'd be surprised that you've probably cut down on your bread consumption.

I do this a lot. I tend to adopt something. I go a little extreme with it and then I back off naturally or Julie tells me to back off which

everyone happens first and it works it'll move your needle it'll change your

average where you'll say you know I used to eat a ton of bread or I used to eat out all the time and then I went on this fast where I didn't eat out for an entire month and I realized this this and that and I learned X, Y, and Z.

So now I do this a little different.

Now I cook at home a little more often.

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