Well for my first blog entry today I'll be talking about people's drive or lack of to lose weight. Everyday I heard about how someone is overweight and that is the reason why they are unhappy. If you're so unhappy then why don't you do something about it? Why would you just continue sitting on your couch eating through an entire bag of chips by yourself day after day? It would make more sense that if there is a reason you're unhappy then do something to change it. Losing weight may take time but in the long run it will benefit you. Most people that are overweight actually suffer from quite a bit of medical issues. Some medical issues that can be related to obesity is diabetes, sleep apnea, and heart disease. Most people that actually lose the access weight manage to get rid of these health issues. Even worse part about obesity is that most don't realize that you're actually aging your body faster. This reason alone should be motivation to live a healthier lifestyle. Why wouldn't you want to be able to live a long life? Why wouldn't you want to be able to do things like going hiking or even just being able to keep up with your children? I would think that especially those that are parents would want to make sure that they are around for a long time to see their children grow up. Whatever the reason you should never let any excuse keep you from leading a healthy life. Don't let the excuse of "I have no time to exercise" or "I can't do it" keep you from doing what you need to do to get healthy. All a person truly needs is thirty minutes of exercise daily and you just need to watch what you eat.
Stop going out to eat for every meal. It's all right to do it once a week for one meal but the food you find in fast food places or even restaurants isn't good for you. In the long run you would actually be saving money by getting groceries and cooking at home. You would want to avoid saturated fats and trans fats as much as you possibly can because the body has a hard to breaking it down. Stay away enriched or bleached flour in your breads or carbs. You would want whole grain when it comes to your breads or pastas. As for meats a person would want to eat as little red meat as possible. Grilled or steamed chicken, turkey or even seafood is the best for you and will have the least amount of calories. People always whine about how healthy foods don't taste good when they don't bother to make it taste good by adding seasonings. Healthy foods can taste good if you take the time to make them that way.
As for the daily thirty minutes of exercising even if you're just doing running every day you have to do something that makes you sweat. The body was built to do work and to be active. How do you expect to lose weight if you don't do anything to burn the calories? You don't have to go to the gym to work out. Beachbody actually has a variety of fitness videos that help you burn calories or even build muscles. If your excuse for not exercising is that you don't want to do it alone there's always classes you can take (zumba, spin class, yoga, etc). It's about finding those exercises that you enjoy doing and making it part of your daily routine. This is usually where most people bring in the I don't have time excuse when there is always about thirty minutes every day a person actually doesn't do anything. I'm sure you even have ten minutes every day to some form of exercise (Beachbody offers a 10 minute trainer series for just this).
In short just a little bit of exercise a day and eating properly can actually help you in leading a long happy life. Why wouldn't you want to lose weight? Why wouldn't a person want to be able to live a long life without any medical problems? Just got to throw out all the excuses and just do it.
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