This is a fun problem I’ve thought about in the past, though never specifically with regard to money. With the recent personal finance bloggers’ weight loss challenge I’m participating in, though, I thought it made sense to try to integrate it with money management.
I once went on a very strict no-sugar diet (no sweeteners, no [...]
If you lose a lot of weight, you’re more likely to also gain in wealth. Thus finds an Ohio State University study from a few years ago. The basic idea, as I understand it, is probably that (1) those motivated to lose that much weight will also be motivated to improve their finances and (2) [...]
Too bad it wasn’t the other way around: hard to spend money and easy to lose weight, right? Why is it just the opposite? We spend money on food and then we get it back in the form of fat (unless we’re really active and good about all of our food choices) — and I’m [...]