I m always baffled when I walk into a pharmacy and see shelves bursting with various vitamins extracts and other supplements all promising to accelerate or promote weight loss . Alsles of marketing genius belle ( 掩饰 ) the fact that , _ , weight loss is dictated by the laws of arithmetic . Economist Jessica I rvine wrote a book about how she used math to help her lose more than 18 kilograms . If calories taken in are less than calories _ 2 _ , weight shall be lost , and so it is with money . Despite the _ 3 _ of financial products , services and solutions geared towards accumulating wealth , it all begins with the same _ 4 _ ; getting ahead financially requires a reduction of spending , so that income is greater than expenses . I was reminded of this again recently listening to an interview with Nicole Had dow , the author of Smashed Avocado , explaining how she cracked the property market at 31 . It was quite a _ 5 _ , given where she had been two years earlier , Nicole didn t celebrate her 30 thbirthday as she had _ She was sobbing at the dinner table with her parents , with whom she had just moved back in . She had no stable income , 12 , 000 in credit - card debt and no plan , but to her _ 7 _ , her father , an accountant , told her that her financial _ 8 . wasn t as bad as she thought . He said , on her income , with some changes , she would be able to buy an investment unit within two years , which she did . Nicole admitted she was fortunate , as she was able to live with her parents and 9 . her spending and life to get herself on track financially . Creating a gap between her income and spending required a paradigm shift and _ 10 sacrifice and commitment but by going into financial lockdown Nicole gained financial independence a abundance b astonishment c entailed d envisaged E equation E expended G . featH . fiscally L impetus J . overhaul K . permanently L . plight M . prosper N . shatter O . ultimately

I m always baffled when I walk into a pharmacy and see shelves bursting with various vitamins extracts and other supplements all promising to accelerate or promote weight loss . Alsles of marketing genius belle ( 掩饰 ) the fact that , _ , weight loss is dictated by the laws of arithmetic . Economist Jessica I rvine wrote a book about how she used math to help her lose more than 18 kilograms . If calories taken in are less than calories _ 2 _ , weight shall be lost , and so it is with money . Despite the _ 3 _ of financial products , services and solutions geared towards accumulating wealth , it all begins with the same _ 4 _ ; getting ahead financially requires a reduction of spending , so that income is greater than expenses . I was reminded of this again recently listening to an interview with Nicole Had dow , the author of Smashed Avocado , explaining how she cracked the property market at 31 . It was quite a _ 5 _ , given where she had been two years earlier , Nicole didn t celebrate her 30 thbirthday as she had _ She was sobbing at the dinner table with her parents , with whom she had just moved back in . She had no stable income , $ 12 , 000 in credit - card debt and no plan , but to her _ 7 _ , her father , an accountant , told her that her financial _ 8 . wasn t as bad as she thought . He said , on her income , with some changes , she would be able to buy an investment unit within two years , which she did . Nicole admitted she was fortunate , as she was able to live with her parents and 9 . her spending and life to get herself on track financially . Creating a gap between her income and spending required a paradigm shift and _ 10 sacrifice and commitment but by going into financial lockdown Nicole gained financial independence a abundance b astonishment c entailed d envisaged E equation E expended G . feat

H . fiscally L impetus J . overhaul K . permanently L . plight M . prosper N . shatter O . ultimately