Here we are right after the Christmas holiday and before New Years. The time when most are having the end of the holiday cookies, cakes and pies with anticipation of making that New Year’s resolution. You have been down this road before and enter January with intentions of eating better and maybe exercising, but for some reason in the past you have not been able to stick with it. Why? Everyone may have a different excuse, but usually it is because you are not ready for the change you need to make.
In our society now, it is apparent that it is comfortable to be overweight and obese. With an average of almost 1 in 3 Americans considered overweight or obese, the numbers do not lie. It usually takes a medical scare such as a diagnosis of high blood pressure, the onset of diabetes, high cholesterol or even worse such as a heart attack for people to wake up and realize that your health and well-being is so much more important than the taste of the comforting foods you are consuming. The human body is not meant to carry an extra 40-50 plus pounds. If you are one of those that is carrying the extra weight, you know how you feel when you are moving. It is harder and your joints are probably telling you so. Even if you are carrying an extra 10-30 pounds from your normal weight, you feel it and you want to get back.
So, how do you ready yourself for change? That is something that you have to search for within and answer for yourself. What value do you have on your health? Do you have children and grandchildren to be healthy and strong for? What about feeling healthy and good just for you? You have to feel you are worth the change and hard work it takes to get there. I wrote an entry entitled, Weight Loss Strategies on August 31, 2009. I provide 5 tips to get and stay on course. If you have put on some pounds over the years, realize that it is not going to come off in a few months. You have to be patient, take your time and understand that an average of losing 2 pounds per week is normal. You may fall off the wagon a few times, but you have to pick yourself up and get back on. There are too many health issues and even deaths that could and can be prevented the natural way by changing the foods consumed and exercise. It starts with first making a decision for change and then sticking to it. Let’s get to it in 2010! Are you ready?
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This post makes me think of one of my staff at my new job who has a host of health problems and is sluggish; but who eats some kind of fried, greasy fast-food meal every day for lunch. It's hard to watch how her habits contradict what she says she wants.
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