<human>: Hey Reddit, 

We got married not too long ago and as responsible adults we want to save up for the future. However, I think she is taking a bit too extreme. 

Both of us combined make about 10 K (after tax and rent), and she thinks we should save about 8 K per month. Our minimum monthly spending (phones, utilities, Internet, etc) is about 1200, so she wants us to spend about 400 per each per month for food and like coffee and groceries. Thats just a bit over 10 dollars a day, and if I want to eat 3 times a day with that money I have to eat like 6 inch veggie Sub for the rest of my life and I don't understand why we have to live so poorly when we make so much. 

I told her that we can live more comfortably, and try to aim to save about 7 K, which is still a lot of money and I won't have to deal with stomach cancer by eating junk every day. 

Then her and my mom look at me and tell me that we are going to be poor with my kind of attitude. And after our little "talk", she made all these crazy and really stupid decisions like, quitting gym and quitting yoga, and other things that really improve the quality of lives in order to save that 1 extra K, and I really don't understand why we have to be so extreme.

I understand if we were really poor then sacrifices have to be made but we really are not, and no matter how many times I try to explain, my wife and my mom just brush me off as person who is not good with money, and I just think they are being really unrealistic...

How can I get it through her head that we don't have to live this way?

Can you give me a shortened version of the text?
<bot>: Wife is making extreme sacrifices to save about 8,000 USD, when we can live comfortably and improve the quality of our lives by aiming to save about 7,000 USD instead. How can I get it through her head?