| Why You Should Lose Weight Now! |  |
©2003 Julie S. Rayburn
Everyone who has a weight problem, whether it is an extra 10 pounds
or an extra 50 pounds, knows that they should lose weight. They are
told by their doctors that they need to lose weight or they will
suffer terrible diseases yet they don't take his advice. There
are new studies published in the finest medical journals in the
country preaching the benefits of losing weight, and many newspaper
articles relaying the results of these studies, yet people still do
nothing to lose the extra weight.
Is it just that everyone thinks that disease will not happen to them;
that somehow they are invincible? Or is it that people don't
care because they think they will just be losing a few years off of
their life? Or are people so overwhelmed with all of the bad
information out there on how to lose weight?
Or maybe, just maybe, people associate so much pain with losing
weight that a future full of disease and suffering doesn't seem
so scary? Are you associating so much pain with the thought of
losing weight that you are willing to give up your life? Are you
willing to cut 20-30 years off of your life just to avoid the process
of losing weight?
I am going to help you associate pain with not losing weight in an
effort to get you to do what you know you need to do!
First of all, did you know that fatty deposits are found in the
arteries of 3 year old children who have been eating standard
American fare? You know, drinking their milk, eating their chicken
and steak, going out to dinner and ordering off the kids menu.
Nothing out of the ordinary for most American children. This is the
beginning of heart disease.
Now imagine that you are that child. You ate typical American fare
growing up and still eat it today. All of these years have gone by
and you have been happily enjoying the meals with your family, cook-
outs, and other food parties. Barbecue chicken on the 4th of July,
turkey at Thanksgiving, and let's not forget the Christmas ham!
It's 35 years later and you have spent a big portion of your life
eating the foods that cause heart disease. You are 20-30 pounds
overweight (you tell yourself that you are big boned), don't get
a lot of exercise, and think you are too young to be threatened by
major diseases.
So for 35+ years, heart disease and hardening of the arteries has
been slowly but steadily getting worse. Then one day you are walking
to your car after a hard day at the office, and you collapse. You
have just had a coronary artery thrombosis, a heart attack.
Your life flashes before your eyes. You remember how your wife
begged you to lose weight. You remember having to tell your kids
that you can't play baseball with them because you don't have
the energy. You are reminded that your father died of a heart attack
at 47. You didn't get to say goodbye to your wife or kids. The
last words you said to your 4 year old daughter were "I don't
have time for a bear hug, I'll be late for work' as you ran
out the door that morning. And those are the last words you will
ever get to say to her. You did not survive the heart attack.
Another life snuffed out before it really began. And for what? So
you could eat one more cheeseburger? Because you didn't think
you were that out of shape?
You don't have to be grossly overweight or out of shape to suffer
a heart attack. If 3-year old children have the beginnings of heart
disease, what do you think is going on in your body? If you are over
40 and overweight, you are a ticking time bomb! Any minute you could
be uttering your last words to your kids, your wife, your husband.
The diseases associated with obesity develop over time, but can kill
in an instant. The leading cause of death in our country is heart
disease. The number three killer is stroke, another disease of the
arteries. What is so unfortunate about this is that approximately
70% of these deaths could have been prevented. Heart disease is a
direct result of what you eat.
So what will it take for you to lose the weight that you know needs
to go? If you have Type II diabetes, another condition reversed
through superior nutrition, do you have to wait until you are having
a foot amputated to change your diet? Are you waiting until you feel
the chest pain associated with heart trouble before you lay off the
fried foods?
You may not get a second chance! Your first heart attack could also
be your last!
Are people so attached to their unhealthy fatty foods that they are
willing to die for them? Do they really taste that good? Changing
your diet doesn't have to be the end of your life as you know it.
We weren't made to eat the fatty American diet as it has come to
be known. We were made to eat fresh fruits and vegetables. Whole
grains, unprocessed foods, foods that we can digest, foods that give
life instead of taking it away.
This doesn't mean that you can't do the 4th of July barbeque
or the Thanksgiving turkey or the Christmas ham. If you ate fresh
whole foods 90% of the time and indulged only 10% of the time, you
would be in control of what diseases you let into your body!
With all that we know about the effects of diet on disease, to
continue to eat the typical American diet is nothing short of suicide
on an installment plan. Stop letting food control your life and
cause your death. Change your habits and take back your health!
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Julie Rayburn is a Lifestyle Coach for Vitality Health and Fitness.
She has developed a program to enable people to lose weight and take
back their health. You can go to http://www.takebackyourhealth.org
for more information on weight loss, exercise, and health. Sign up
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