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A space to talk openly about weight loss journeys and challenges. Mumsnet hasn't checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. You may wish to speak to a medical professional before starting any diet.

If money were no object how would you lose weight?

55 replies

headintheproverbial · 19/06/2021 23:13

Guess I have this view in my mind that if I had millions in the bank I'd no longer be overweight. I'd have a PT and chef

How would you lose weight if you had the money?

OP posts:
Xenia · 20/06/2021 08:55

Money isn't really an issue for me as I could hire a trainer and chef or go to a fat farm in Austria or whatever they call them these days. I am trying to lose some at the moment, money being no object really. I suppose if someone locked me in a room for a few months with limited food I would lose weight....

No matter how I con myself eating much less often and less food loses me weight which costs nothing.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 20/06/2021 09:01

staff: live-in chef, dance teacher, fitness instructor, water-skiing instructor masseuse
amenities: own swimming pool, indoor rock climbing wall, bowling alley, stables, ice rink, motor boat
sports to do: skiing, ice-skating, water-skiing, surfing, rock-climbing, horse riding etc
obv live by own private beach for nice walks with family & dogs and to do all watersports

Seasidemumma77 · 20/06/2021 09:02

PT and chef

SamMil · 20/06/2021 09:03

I'd quit work. I'm much more active when not sat at a desk.

Lyricallie · 20/06/2021 09:08

I would quit my job and just go to Disney world every day. The number of steps I do there plus I'm way to hot too eat 😂 it would fall right off me.

Fifthtimelucky · 20/06/2021 09:35

I lost quite a bit of weight a couple of years ago (3.5 stone). I did it by retiring.

Instead of spending 13-14 hours a day sitting in a train or at my desk, eating lots of cake and biscuits (taken to work by me or colleagues), and cooking pasta when I got home because it was quick, I had time to walk more, go to the gym, and cook better.

lazylinguist · 20/06/2021 09:47

I think it's tempting to think that those things would magically make you lose weight, but I'm not sure it's true! I'm just aa capable of cooking delicious healthy food as I am of cooking delicious unhealthy food (and just as capable of snacking on unhealthy stuff even if I had a chef making my meals). I'm also just as capable of doing exercise with or without a PT. It would still require willpower.

Money would help in that I'd spend more on super high quality healthy ingredients to cook with, maybe join a fancy gym, and spend a fortune at Sweaty Betty to make me feel great about exercising. I'd also plan to spend more on clothes when I'd got slimmer, as that would be another motivation! That's how I'd use the money.

CoolShoeshine · 20/06/2021 18:43

I’d have a bit of liposuction to help me on my journey, it would be so much nicer to only have one stone to lose rather than a few. Rather than a chef i would have pre prepped delivery boxes such as Hello Fresh during the week then perhaps healthy meals out at high end restaurants at the weekends.
A couple of times a year a holiday at a health resort abroad would be nice - I’m not sure what exists but preferably the alps in summer and a winter sun destination in January to lose the Christmas pounds.
I’d also spend lots of money on all the faddy beauty treatments I could get my hands on Grin

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 20/06/2021 19:03

I am not overweight - but sometimes I think a residential somewhere to get me to the middle of my healthy weight range and get properly fit in preparation for the OAP stage would be great.

CrushedPistachios · 20/06/2021 19:19

Therapy.

Fuck loads of it. I eat as an emotional crutch and that's what needs to be untangled.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 20/06/2021 20:44

Lipo, skin tuck.
I am now absolutely aware of where I went wrong and these things are gone. So I would just skip the 2 year diet😁

Chloe1973 · 20/06/2021 21:09

I'd build a gym in my house and hire a chef .... oh and a part time nanny so that I could work out every evening Grin

PoptartPoptart · 25/06/2021 09:36

”I would quit my job and just go to Disney world every day. The number of steps I do there plus I'm way to hot too eat 😂 it would fall right off me”
^This sounds like the perfect plan!

Seriously though, just having enough money not to have to work would make enough of a difference for me.
I’m too tired and haven’t got the time to exercise properly after a 10 hour work day. And weekends are filled with all the mundane jobs that I don’t have time to do in the week, like housework and washing.
If I had more time to myself I’d actually enjoy going swimming and to exercise classes.

BooksChocolateAndSleep · 25/06/2021 09:40

PT, chef and some kind of surgery to get me started!!

chipsandpeas · 25/06/2021 09:43

lipo, tummy tuck then a chef and PT

BeastOfBODMAS · 25/06/2021 10:11

I would give up work and buy a smallholding.
I’d have an abundance of dogs and ponies and spend my days tending them and a large and lavish allotment garden. I’d end up absolutely ripped from good, purposeful outdoor labour and never have to do any formal exercise.

I’d still mostly cook for myself in a lovely farmhouse kitchen, but I’d have a personal chef to give me varied recipes for using my seasonal produce, shop for extra ingredients and do any bulk cleaning/preserving jobs.

BrownEyedGirl80 · 25/06/2021 10:12

Lipo

Ozanj · 25/06/2021 10:14

@headintheproverbial

Guess I have this view in my mind that if I had millions in the bank I'd no longer be overweight. I'd have a PT and chef

How would you lose weight if you had the money?

Private chef, PT, private pool, private Yoga classes, my own climbing wall, my own 100 acre estate that I could take long leisurely walks on.
Cleverpolly3 · 25/06/2021 10:23

An entourage that would take care of everything for me
This would also allow me to sleep and drastically reduce my stress levels. Both these things have made me put on stress weight.

Definitely a personal chef

Start horse riding and yoga again
Have a proper indoor swimming pool

Huge estate with gardens to tend and walk aliens of an evening with my trained guard dogs and a slimline gin and tonic 😂

Cleverpolly3 · 25/06/2021 10:23

Walk AROUND

CaptainBarbossa · 25/06/2021 10:56

I would have a better work/life balance. I would have a live in nanny to deal with the night wakings, early mornings and school runs, and spend my time swimming or doing yoga, followed by a green smoothie and getting ready at a slower pace. Then I would work from mid morning until about 4pm, giving me time to take the kids to their activities or for a meal out. At home we would have grilled salmon or rotisserie chicken with salad and avocado, olives, nuts, cheese board, and lots of fresh fruit. So no need for a chef.

Saturdays we would all do different activities at the health and sports club, probably youngest would be in the crèche there. Then we would go for a late brunch, and spend the afternoon snuggled up watching a movie together. Evenings I would have friends over, or go out with friends.

Sundays we would have a day out with the grandparents or other family, maybe the zoo or beach. Lots of walking, but also at least one big meal out.

My eating pattern would be to eat at 8ish just a green smoothie or similar, then brunch at about 11.30am, cooked (out!) on the weekends and a chicken salad wrap on workdays (homemade), a handful of nuts at 4ish, and a cooked meal at 7pm, usually something simple at home as above, or if out then steak or a sea food pasta.

I would have therapy every week, and spend a couple of hours a week having beauty and spa treatments so I would feel great about myself. We would have 4 holidays a year, plus twice a year I would go on a holiday on my own. Somewhere with a purpose like a Himalayan yoga retreat. I would have braces fitted and my teeth made perfect, so that might impact my food choices for a while!

I would weigh about the same, but be stronger, fitter, healthier, happier and not give it any thought. I would be more toned, and what wasn't toned I could get nipped and tucked Grin I would be able to afford well fitting, comfortable clothes which I loved so wouldn't want to lose weight anyway, I am overweight but if I had beautiful clothes in my size it would probably mean I just wouldn't care. It's different trying to fit your wobbly bits into off the rail Primark than having properly clothes altered for you. If I looked like a curvy hourglass and not like mr blobby dressed in a potato sack, then why would I lose weight?

I would be rich enough to not be concerned about whether I ended up with a health problem down the road, because I could afford private healthcare and health insurance and all those wonderful things. Money would give me the peace of mind to be as fat as I am, and not change it!

MarshaBradyo · 25/06/2021 11:01

I’m ok atm but if I wanted to lose a bit I’d do a retreat, with pool, yoga, running and sushi chef

I wouldn’t want a PT but would do the above, maybe o/s

Went to a wellness retreat in Thailand but that was a holiday I’d go for a pumped up version of that

MarshaBradyo · 25/06/2021 11:03

Back home much of the same chef, pool and running plus nanny to deal with the dc

Divineswirls · 25/06/2021 11:07

Buy a house with an indoor pool, and have personal yoga instructors etc and someone to tailor clothes to fit and enhance me

LindaEllen · 25/06/2021 11:15

I'd have a house with a pool - I adore swimming but our local pools are grim and I don't have time in my day to drive to the nearest nice one.

Also a chef - I don't mind eating healthily but laziness/being very busy makes me cut corners sometimes.

I don't think I need a personal trainer, as I love exercising when I have the time, and if money were no object I wouldn't be working 12 hour days.