On 1/1/2010 I started the Atkins diet again as a New Year’s resolution to lose weight this year.   I weighed myself and have lost 11 lbs since starting the diet so I’ve been losing a pound per day.   It’s not just the diet though as I go to the gym four to five times per week.    The sinister plan to lose weight has some financial incentives for me.   I’m currently in the process of purchasing a new life insurance policy this year and it is often cheaper to be fit during the examination process as premiums will be lower than if I were just over weight.

It is absolutely amazing to me how the years have just flown by, we purchased a 20 year life insurance policy over 11 years ago when we first got married to protect our kids and there are now less years on that policy ahead than past so I figured it’s time to lock in another new 20 year policy which should carry us till the kids are out of college at which point we really won’t need the policy anymore.

I am hoping this economic mess has made life policies cheaper since no one has any cash to be buying them but that may ultimately end up hurting me since the pool may be smaller.  In any event, I want to maximize the value of the policy by being fit.   I hope to buy that new policy sometime in the summer so I have a few more months to lose some more pounds.