Keep a steady diet of learning and experience and you'll overcome those fears.  

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. 

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.

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.

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.

I am sure your looking for technical's but honestly those don't matter at this point, you need foundational actions first otherwise just like yoo-yoo dieting you'll find yourself right back in the same hole if not deeper. 

Honestly I would look at your diet, are you eating junk?