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SammiK504 t1_j6g9r72 wrote
If you're spending the money you would have otherwise spent on booze on other shit the "fitness industry" is trying to sell you, then you might want to consider that you might just be switching addictions, especially if you don't have any sort of program to help you figure out why you were drinking in the first place
Peelboy t1_j6g9s4n wrote
Ya, it's not cheap, but it is worth it.
-Alter-Reality- t1_j6g9z3p wrote
100% agreed! Im all for quitting alcohol, and for getting healthier and focusing on health.
I just don't want people to think that by making these changes they are likely to save money.
chroncryx t1_j6ga291 wrote
You do not have to spend money on any those items you listed in order to get healthy.
ariphron t1_j6ga6q9 wrote
I save a ton of money not drinking. All those supplements and everything else you are spending money on is most likely a by product of your addictive personality trait. Pair of shoes and few cheap workout clothes don’t cost nearly as much as a daily 12 pack of beer. Also supplements just give you expensive pee. Unless you juicing trend and test and everything else under the sun liver king.
-Alter-Reality- t1_j6gaj0r wrote
I associate my health also with my physical fitness. And I didn't have workout clothes or suitable gym shoes, so those were needed. Other than the clothing/shoes, the fresh quality foods have also been more expensive.
But I agree that protein/creatine, and vitamins/supplements may not be necessary with proper diets, but they do help to have good health.
sakzeroone t1_j6galmv wrote
That's not how that works.
Michayl20 t1_j6gbhze wrote
you say this like he was an alcoholic
Oliver_Klosov t1_j6gbltn wrote
I lost half my fortune on women and booze. The rest I just wasted.
Juls7243 t1_j6gbwnr wrote
The thing is - you don't NEED to spend that much on supplements/protein/creative/clothing and shoes....
just a basic multivitamin, more vegetables and solid calisthenics - perfect for your health.
-Alter-Reality- t1_j6gc00m wrote
I drank a six pack of IPA 🍺 per week. Cost like $10-12 for the sixer, so $40-48 monthly. But quitting alcohol, and focusing on health, has been hella expensive! Much more than $40-48 per month.
Shit that was about what just the gym membership alone cost me.
I guess I underestimated how much many people may be spending on booze?
kwazyness90 t1_j6gc2vv wrote
I mean you don't need all that stuff to get healthier lol, going for daily walks and exercise is enough. Just gotta eat cleaner and drink cleaner haha. Now if your trying to get swole af that is not cheaper
Juls7243 t1_j6gc3ii wrote
True - but sometimes switching addictions is a great thing!
Going from drugs to exercise is not a bad thing to do!
-Alter-Reality- t1_j6gcjks wrote
Damn, a daily 12 pack! I underestimated how much people can drink. That's not just drinking alcohol that's a problem.
-Alter-Reality- t1_j6gd70s wrote
I understand that you do not NEED those things to be healthier. But I listed all the things that I personally spend money on to better make my point.
My point being that a healthy lifestyle is not cheap, and that one shouldn't quit alcohol with the idea that you will save money or else you may be discouraged and go back to the drinking.
Make the move for your health not wealth.
[deleted] OP t1_j6gee0y wrote
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toan55 t1_j6gh78o wrote
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Em_Adespoton t1_j6gig9z wrote
My fitness is running. Outside. With a small investment in my own at-home weights and fitness doodads. Some of them I’ve had for 20 years.
The only real cost after lifestyle adjustments has been $180 on shoes every year.
If I was a weekly regular at the liquor store, I’d have paid for all my stuff for 25 years within a few months.
4192gym t1_j6gkwvc wrote
There is nothing wrong with protein, creatine, vitamins, and minerals. They are all necessary for living a healthy life.
Anybody who is saying they are not necessary, are poor & unhealthy.
-Alter-Reality- t1_j6gmx0b wrote
They can say what they want. I went from a bit overweight, lazy POS, to strong fit athletic build in only four months.
And I feel great.
But it was NOT cheap!
-Alter-Reality- t1_j6gn771 wrote
And the alcoholics unite! Keep saying what you want to defend yourself, but 12 beers daily is a problem. Seek help.
SeveranceZero t1_j6gsfdl wrote
It is affordable, you just swapped one addiction for another.
SeveranceZero t1_j6gtuiv wrote
Make sure to report this post as not a LPT. OP is spouting a lot of misinformation.
DisabledInMedicine t1_j6h0bf3 wrote
Being healthy is expensive, that’s why more rich people are healthier and health disparities exist.
That being said I just wanted to let you know you do NOT have to be buying any kind of supplements unless you’ve had blood tests that show you to be deficient for a specific vitamin.
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Remarkable-Finish07 t1_j6h1az3 wrote
You're an idiot looking for attention. Workout for a while, work in silence I can already tell it's not been a long time since you started "working out", do it for a few years then spew out your garbage takes
Unkindlake t1_j6h3rlc wrote
God, the money I've spent on smokes :/
GodTierAimbotUser69 t1_j6h5nta wrote
this is so true OP could have just saved money by swapping alcohol for water. now this is a life pro tip.
[deleted] OP t1_j6h661l wrote
The real life pro tip here is probably do not develop impulsive spending habbits and buy addictions lol
endless_pastability t1_j6hviq8 wrote
I’ve been a bodybuilder and CrossFitter throughout my life and have literally NEVER taken creatine or anything more than a magnesium supplement ($9 for a 3-month supply) and fish oil (comparably as inexpensive). I rarely use protein powder.
They can help. But they aren’t NECESSARY to living a healthy life and being physically more fit.
Viewtiful-Scotland t1_j6hz0nd wrote
Ignore OP. Giving up alcohol will save you money if you don't immediately try to sink it into a different addiction.
Dreamforger t1_j6i347f wrote
That is a lot of extra steps to getting "healthier". Stop drinking alcohol, could be the step. And you could do home exercise without need of any new fancy cloth.
Dreamforger t1_j6i39x3 wrote
I mean if you want to stop alcohol, there are a lot of good reasons. And saving money (though a weak one imo) could be one of them.
Dreamforger t1_j6i3h6a wrote
And if you use them, you are usually not interesting in a healthier lifestyle, but to maximize your work out, which could end in a paradox, you are not getting healthier :)
blizzWorldwide t1_j6i45j3 wrote
Every alcoholic who recognizes they have an honest problem knows they need help. They don’t need some vitamin/shoe-buying internet troll to tell them they have a problem.
Familiar-Corgi1112 t1_j6i5jvy wrote
A lot of people on here are shitting on you. Also a lot of people here are not physically in shape and in their 30s or 40s. I’m just going to assume that.
A lot of people here also assume you’re an alcoholic and spend hundreds of dollars a month on alcohol. You probably don’t.
If you were an alcoholic, gym costs, supps, whatever will be cheaper than alcohol. If you’re a social drinker and drink a six pack or two a week, getting swole will be more expensive.
Just by quitting alcohol, many people will be much much healthier even if they subsist on diet coke. But OP wants to be fit AND Healthy, which a lot of people also want to be, and they are shocked at how much money obtaining and maintaining fitness is.
When you lose weight - you’re going to want to buy gym clothes that don’t make you look like a sack of potatoes. That costs money. Or if you’re real thrifty go and wear your old gym clothes from college. Unfortunately, the gym has become like high school, you can try not to wear nice gym clothes, and your mileage will vary.
Supplements are absolutely essential. If you want to workout, go to work, have a social life, have family time, and have enough energy for all of those things, a once a day multivitamin is not going to cut it. Supplements cost money. For example — Amino acids that are required for muscle maintenance while your aging, unfortunately, you will not get that with the shitty diet you had. This costs money to supplement.
If OP is a male, and tall, he needs to keep up his calorie intake/macros in proportion to his lifting or he will just injure himself. Especially if he is lifting heavy. If not, he will workout and up looking like a serial marathon runner. I don’t think this is what he wants. This also costs money.
Perhaps people on here just want you to walk on the treadmill or ride a bike 20 minutes a day and be the skinny-fat male equivalent of Pam from the office and just say you’re healthy and fit, but male health requires a certain muscle mass for continued testosterone production which is absolutely and undeniably essential for male mental and physical health — and this gets harder and harder to maintain as you get older without proper nutrition/diet/exercise — and all of this requires money.
OP Please don’t let people get you down, you were trying to do a good thing, but people in general are fitness-averse and see it as an unnecessary lifestyle because honestly, they’ve never had it, so they don’t know any better.
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Familiar-Corgi1112 t1_j6i64is wrote
Yeahhh…. I think people here are assuming OP is an alcoholic whose income was hugely affected.
Familiar-Corgi1112 t1_j6i6d2g wrote
I think that’s what OP was trying to say. Most regular people are fitness-averse and see weightlifting as unnecessary. 7 minutes a day of exercise and getting your steps in is a lifetime goal for many people, so this kind of advice isn’t going to come off well.
SeveranceZero t1_j6i7p51 wrote
No, that’s not what he was saying at all.
[deleted] OP t1_j6i855p wrote
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Zealousideal_Amount8 t1_j6ibera wrote
You just replaced booze with something else, review the budget. I did the same thing with baseball cards last year. Definitely, for you, money well spent. Congrats to you and keep up the hard work.
akratic137 t1_j6idk6p wrote
Yes you greatly underestimate how much money people spend on booze. Most people in the comments assumed you were an alcoholic before. Think a handle or more a day or 18+ beers.
Vault_Master t1_j6iftbs wrote
Seems like that's the only way to truly beat an addiction. Lol
SweetCosmicPope t1_j6ih036 wrote
I would argue that you are accidentally correct.
Yes, eating healthy is more expensive than eating fast food and microwaveable junk all the time. No, you do not need to buy a bunch of workout clothes and supplements and junk to be healthy. Those can be great enhancements for whatever your goals are in the gym, but they are certainly not necessary for living a healthy lifestyle.
Go and buy a set of running shoes and a few pairs of sweatpants, sure. I guarantee you that somebody who eats healthily and goes out for a daily run, followed by pushups and situps can be just as healthy, if not moreso, than a gym rat pumping themselves full of creatine and vitamins.
halfsieapsie t1_j6ihwe5 wrote
You do need good shoes, the rest isn't necessary. You can run outside at the nearest highschool track. You can do body weight exercises in your home. You might want to buy a pullup bar, but that's like 20 bucks.
All the supplements are completely unnecessary if you eat well, and you should eat well for many other reasons.
ALso, alcohol is mad caloric, so it's not a surprise that you dropped weight.
bandti45 t1_j6iiig7 wrote
Or you could just have a healthy diet to get everything you need instead of funding unregulated supplements
SeveranceZero t1_j6imfoh wrote
You are spreading as much misinformation as OP, just stop dude.
It does not cost a lot to be healthy. It’s actually more affordable to eat clean and exercise regularly in the long run.
You need clothes either way and you can buy affordable gym clothes. You don’t need fancy stuff to go work out, your comment about the gym being like high school, is all too telling about you.
You don’t need supplements, even less so if you actually eat a clean and balanced diet.
Just reading your comment it’s clear you don’t really know what you are talking about. You assume no one is in shape because they don’t waste hundreds of dollars on supplements that YouTube channels and influencers try to sell you on.
Please stop giving advice when you yourself are clueless. Also you and OP present information in a way that is entirely condescending. No one shat on OP for wanting to be healthier, they told him off because he’s acting like a tool and spreading misinformation. You are doing the same thing.
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repeat_absalom t1_j6iqopc wrote
Hey OP! “Getting healthy” is not the same as spending money. What you are describing is a luxury lifestyle. Just thought you should know!
[deleted] OP t1_j6iqroa wrote
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repeat_absalom t1_j6iqvok wrote
Yep, this is called “transference” and is very common with alcoholics and other addictions. Many addicts switch from alcohol/drugs to health/exercise and, of course, take it to the extreme.
SeveranceZero t1_j6irpmp wrote
Your comments keep getting deleted, I can see that you replied but not what you said.
NoBarracuda5415 t1_j6it3a7 wrote
Multiply the average cost of a liver transplant by the change in your likelihood of needing one with and without alcohol. Do same for other alcohol-related medical expenses. Add that into your "savings" column :)
TioTapatio21 t1_j6iw64a wrote
Guy was only drinking a six pack a week that’s basically giving up alcohol already. Doctors and cops wouldn’t even register that.
marynofo t1_j6iwdi7 wrote
You are just producing expensive urine. Most supplements a waste
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