What are ways to lose weight for a busy, broke person?

Stay busy and broke. You won’t have time or money to eat.

:) Just kidding, I would recommend writing out a meal plan for yourself every day. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. All of them are important.

And I really don’t know what your schedule is like, but running and walking is free! I’m sure you could squeeze in 20–30 minutes in somewhere! If you have an iPod, I would highly recommend making a workout playlist. It really helps to get motivated. I think they even have Podcasts you can download specifically for working out.

You don’t have to be a gym member to exercise. Depending on your level of fitness, take the stairs, take walks every day, start jogging. If you can’t afford weights, fill up plastic milk jugs with water to use as weights. Do lunges down your hallway while you’re swishing mouthwash (or whatever). Sit ups and pushups don’t cost a thing.

What are you currently eating? If it’s fast food, you can keep doing that but start ordering the salads or grilled chicken instead of the normal crap.

walk your dog! and if you dont have one, volunteer to walk a friends or neighbors. its fun and sometimes a challenge, but its a great way to exercise and have fun!

buying fruit isn’t that expensive, and make good meal substitutes if your busy. and take vitamins, does the body good.

No juice
No soda
No energy/sport drinks
No flavored water
No added sugar in foods
No candy or snacks
Sex for at least a half an hour 4 times a week

Definitely cut out beer from your diet Megan! ;)

can you walk, bike, or use public transit to commute? perhaps small things like sit ups during commercials or a walk around the building on your break.

Don’t keep sweets and junk food in the house. That’s a good trick for me. If it’s not there, I can’t eat it.
Just make it a rule not to buy it.

Also! What I’ve done is I’ve moved my stationary bike in front of my TV and I bike while watching. It’s a great work-out for lazy people! Is this somewhat of an option to you?
Plus, the weather is getting nice again so you’ll be able to bike outside everywhere.

Eat less.
Walk.

Walking helped me lost 50lbs of baby weight. And a high fiber diet.
I stopped eating fast food, and I’ve never been a big soda drinker.

Walk everyone, run if you can afford good running shoes. Bodyweight exercises in the home—push ups, planks, sit ups or crunches, squats, walking lunges. You can make weights out of anything. Amoebic packs hardbound books into canvas grocery bags tightly, and lifts those when doing the moves listed above.

Get a notepad and write down everything you eat and every form of exercise you get for at least two weeks. Don’t try to change anything. (But you will—eating mindfully means you’ll pay more attention to what you eat and how much you eat, and you’ll probably alter it.)

Then look at that and ask, where can I replace expensive, unhealthy foods with cheaper, healthy foods? Where can I spend 5 or 10 minutes more being active?

For instance, if you find yourself buying lunch from the vending machines at work because you didn’t have time to put together a lunch, you might find that buying a bag of raw carrots and keeping it in the fridge at work is a better solution—cheaper over the course of 2 or 3 days, and considerably better for you.

And if you park as far away as you can at the grocery store or the office (instead of jockeying with the other shoppers/workers for the closest parking spaces) you get some walking in. If you get off one bus stop or subway stop before the closest one, and get some walking in that way.

Take a look at the South Beach Diet. And walk. Find a local high school that has a track people can use.

May be when you go somewhere on a nice day you can park farther away. That way you would get more exercise.