It still to this day amazes my mom why when I have a baby on the way and I could be saving every dime for him; why then would I spend over $200 a month on being healthy! Even my fiancé used to say I was wasting money on my Shakeology, Oils, and Workouts. But in the long run I am saving so much money now. Let me explain it to you..
I suffer from IBS, TMJ, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and Depression. All of those problems cost me tons of money and I will lay that out for you here in a minute. But the way I feel when those problems are at full swing is miserable. So naturally I have always tired to find a solution or at least something that would work in the moment and sugar coat the pain. Crazy thing is one of the main factors to all of my health problems is stress! For some crazy reason my body just could not handle stress in a healthy way at all.
With IBS I would get so sick at my stomach that on average I would have to take off 1 day of work a week. Back when I taught swim it was closer to 2 days a week. I would be so sick I just needed to stay home and take care of myself. I would get sick before most social events. I would get sick when I got extremely excited about something. IBS untreated is miserable your stomach basically will have contractions with any emotional changes or with a few key trigger foods. So at the end of the day this problem caused me TONS of personal harm and financially it cost 1 day of pay a month!
With TMJ I spent tons of money treating and fixing this problem. You can't just ignore TMJ. Basically TMJ is where when you are stressed you grind your teeth and/or your muscles around your jaw get extremely tense. For me this meant that my jaw popped out of place almost every day and it was extremely painful. So bad to where I would get a huge pimple on the side of my jaw that was most inflamed. To treat my TMJ successfully when it was at its worst cost a ton. I had a chiropractic membership for $120 a month and I had 2 massages a month that cost me $120 total. So for TMJ it cost me $240, as well as the one time expense of a $70 dollar pillow. Why all because my body was not healthy enough to process the stress it was put under.
With Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and Depression I ran to food! No I did not get fat but oh my can I throw down some money on some fast food. I still struggle with breaking this habit on my bad days. But now I ALWAYS regret it. I could easily get a sonic Lemon-Berry Slush every day that was around $2.50. I also LOVED to indulge in ice cream and fried food even though I knew it would make my IBS flare up! But hey it made me happy to eat so who cared at the end of the day. So lets just say over all I spend around $5 a day, now some days I was good and had none and other days I would spend around $20. $5x30 is $150 a month or more on fast food to fill the voids in my life and make me feel better because again my body could not handle stress.
So over all I spent $240 for TMJ, $150 on cravings, and say I made what I made when I started Coaching $9.50 and hour and I worked 8 hrs the day I took off: I would have lost $76 dollars a month. So over all I spent/lost a total of $446. Not to mention a lack of energy, a moody personality, and I was a pain to be around.
Now I spend around $200 a month on living a healthy lifestyle and I LOVE it! I am happier, I have more energy, I rarely suffer from TMJ now, my IBS stays under control 75% of the time, I almost never have panic attacks anymore, my anxiety has gotten minimal, and my depression is getting ALOT better. I have never felt more alive and healthy in my life. I could have said no to Shakeology and the oils because of money but I didn't I jumped in and found such healing and fresh life with it.
I hope this will help you to consider trying more options that actually work for your health and improve your over all health and not settle for anything less than a "super life."
I suffer from IBS, TMJ, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and Depression. All of those problems cost me tons of money and I will lay that out for you here in a minute. But the way I feel when those problems are at full swing is miserable. So naturally I have always tired to find a solution or at least something that would work in the moment and sugar coat the pain. Crazy thing is one of the main factors to all of my health problems is stress! For some crazy reason my body just could not handle stress in a healthy way at all.
With IBS I would get so sick at my stomach that on average I would have to take off 1 day of work a week. Back when I taught swim it was closer to 2 days a week. I would be so sick I just needed to stay home and take care of myself. I would get sick before most social events. I would get sick when I got extremely excited about something. IBS untreated is miserable your stomach basically will have contractions with any emotional changes or with a few key trigger foods. So at the end of the day this problem caused me TONS of personal harm and financially it cost 1 day of pay a month!
With TMJ I spent tons of money treating and fixing this problem. You can't just ignore TMJ. Basically TMJ is where when you are stressed you grind your teeth and/or your muscles around your jaw get extremely tense. For me this meant that my jaw popped out of place almost every day and it was extremely painful. So bad to where I would get a huge pimple on the side of my jaw that was most inflamed. To treat my TMJ successfully when it was at its worst cost a ton. I had a chiropractic membership for $120 a month and I had 2 massages a month that cost me $120 total. So for TMJ it cost me $240, as well as the one time expense of a $70 dollar pillow. Why all because my body was not healthy enough to process the stress it was put under.
With Anxiety, Panic Attacks, and Depression I ran to food! No I did not get fat but oh my can I throw down some money on some fast food. I still struggle with breaking this habit on my bad days. But now I ALWAYS regret it. I could easily get a sonic Lemon-Berry Slush every day that was around $2.50. I also LOVED to indulge in ice cream and fried food even though I knew it would make my IBS flare up! But hey it made me happy to eat so who cared at the end of the day. So lets just say over all I spend around $5 a day, now some days I was good and had none and other days I would spend around $20. $5x30 is $150 a month or more on fast food to fill the voids in my life and make me feel better because again my body could not handle stress.
So over all I spent $240 for TMJ, $150 on cravings, and say I made what I made when I started Coaching $9.50 and hour and I worked 8 hrs the day I took off: I would have lost $76 dollars a month. So over all I spent/lost a total of $446. Not to mention a lack of energy, a moody personality, and I was a pain to be around.
Now I spend around $200 a month on living a healthy lifestyle and I LOVE it! I am happier, I have more energy, I rarely suffer from TMJ now, my IBS stays under control 75% of the time, I almost never have panic attacks anymore, my anxiety has gotten minimal, and my depression is getting ALOT better. I have never felt more alive and healthy in my life. I could have said no to Shakeology and the oils because of money but I didn't I jumped in and found such healing and fresh life with it.
I hope this will help you to consider trying more options that actually work for your health and improve your over all health and not settle for anything less than a "super life."
