It's like dieting:  it's simple, but it's not easy.  

The only industries that make money selling to people who rarely get the benefit are the diet and fitness gyms. 

You had to add a lot of sugar but you got lemonade.

So, if ANY of the members of BP ever have any questions regarding health / dieting / exercise / training / nutrition, please feel free to reach out.

Biggest individual expense being food as I have a special diet due to my Chron's and Celiac.Everything left over goes towards paying down debt.

(Would a common man understand that the $1,000,000 wasn't from selling lemonade on the corner) Biggest defense is to know your customer or investor, have them source their funds, and document discussions with investors regarding their transfers.

They choose to participate in a program with special diet meals, and it may work well while they are eating those restrictive meals, but unless they consciously change their eating habits they are mostly likely going to gain weight again.

The SFR we bought was in overall decent shape, and we forced ourselves to reframe our thinking so that we could make some lemonade from the lemons we believe we were given.

I started out by running Spartan races, and cleaning up my diet, to eventually transitioning into a bodybuilding and powerlifting approach on things. 

A reverse osmosis system (for your drinking water taps only) will take care of the sodium, it's not a huge concern unless you have high blood pressure or on a salt restricted diet.