Battling Obesity
Welcome back to this invigorating blog about the problems of obesity. Now those problems are not necessarily of a medical or health topic, but can also encompass the social, or lifestyle side of this problem. So in this post, I’ll be looking at battling obesity not just from the standpoint of health and fitness, but also from a social viewpoint.
First of all, its more that just a case of exercising and moving yourself to get the calories going in the right direction for a change, as it really isn’t always a lot of fun. So while want to think about moving around and flexing your muscles, you also need to think about how you’re going to deal with the next person who looks at you like you’re an alien from Mars when you’re walking down the street.
Obese people come in all shapes and sizes, its true but those who are not will always stare because they don’0t understand. I will have to try it and see how well I can manage tubby. I have no idea on this. I love a good old fashioned fry up. I knew that I have done this before. There’s nothing like enjoyment to motivate a person.
The owners sent out an email detailing obesity over the weekend and it sounds great. Eating too much of all that fatty food will make you get fat too quickly. I didn’t care about getting a lot of people to like obesity. It’s embarrassing when you are so big you take up two seats. It’s more about motivation than anything else. Are you fed up with being too heavy.
Obesity should be providing solutions for your problems. A sedentary lifestyle is a recipe for a health disaster. If I have one slice of cake, I want to eat the whole thing. You can do anything when you put your mind to it. There’s nothing you cannot do, apart from those times when you only have to look at a cream cake and gain another few pounds. How lame, after all. Its almost like wanting to revoke any support for this authoritative idea by burying your head in the sand and hoping it’ll just go away all by itself. Which, of course it will not without you doing something about it yourself.
Ok, that’s about as much as I want to write on this right now. I’ll re-visit this delicate subject again in a future post or two, as its really too big to cram into one post without sending the reader to sleep! You can get more information from this official government website here: http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/.
Step Your Way Thinner
There are several well defined step to weight loss, but many of them fall beneath the categories of either diet or exercise. Exercise is one of the best ways to lose weight as long as it is done regularly and often as it raises the body’s metabolism to cause it to burn more calories. Burning more calories is what we need to do in order that we don’t store fat from the food we eat and indeed any fat that we have got stored up can be burned off by forcing our bodies to use more energy than it is getting from the food we are eating.
When you see it from this perspective, you can see how much more important exercise is over diet for losing weight. Of course, a sensible, healthy diet is highly important too, but you can be less strict in the calories going in when you are already on a program that is causing many more calories to be going out thanks to exercise!
One great exercise that most people can do in their spare time even if they hate doing exercise in general is to get a step machine and use it! This is a machine that you simply step up and down on for as long as you can stand it. It might seem boring, but you can boost it by playing some of your favorite, rousing or upbeat music to step along to. It makes the time go faster and yo get a lot of exercise done in a pretty short space of time without even feeling like you are exercising. Okay, that’s probably not true at first, because you have to take a while to get used to it. But after a while, it becomes pretty easy to do and you’ll wonder why you never did this before!
The Problems of Obesity
Drinking Green Tea to Curb that Weight
There are all kinds of ways to lose weight that really don’t take a great deal of effort to try out. Dieting is easy enough when you get a good diet to follow and its not boring or restrictive, but there is so much more you can do to lose weight!
One of the coolest weight loss tips I ever heard about was to drink two or three cups of green tea each day, especially having one after a meal. Apparently, there are chemicals present in this kind of tea that are not there in black tea or coffee that help your body to shed more fat (or at least to stop it adding more). When you drink it after a meal, it actually slows down the insulin response to a rush of sugars, so you end up having less fat stored as a result.
That’s because insulin’s job is to carry excess sugars our of the blood stream and store them as fat. So you slow down that response and you effectively prevent your body storing as much fat! Cool!
While we all know that caffeine is good for raising the metabolism and there is caffeine in all tea and coffee, green tea has less but it combines with other chemicals to boost its effectiveness way above otehr beverages. That’s really useful to know when you are obese and having real trouble ding anything that will raise your metabolism enough to get the fat burning happening!
Lastly, green tea relaxes you, which is nice on its own. But another side of that is that we hear that stress is a major cause of weight problems. When we’re stressed, the digestive system slows right down, more energy gets stored as fat and up goes the weight. By reducing stress, we can actually reduce the amount of fat we store. Drinking green tea relaxes you…. hum…
What is Your Goal?
When you are feeling pretty down about the way you look and feel, maybe because you are getting worried about being obese but you don’t really know what to do to get your weight down, one question you could start by asking yourself is what your weight loss goal is. Quite often, people have no idea what they want to actually weigh! They see a person in the mirror that can’t possibly be them, but they can’t imagine what they should look like.
Setting goals is important from a confidence aspect, because once you have a definite target to aim for, you at least have the starting gate open and can proceed with a plan to start to lose some weight. The trick to using goal setting as a means to motivate you is to set yourself interim goals instead of one big ultimate goal. You break the process down into smaller more easily achieved chunks. This is how to tackle obesity without putting yourself under any great pressure.
This way you can set, say a monthly goal. You could decide that you want to finish the month 10 pounds lighter than you started the month at. Or whatever is believable and desirable for you. Don’t try to set the bar too high. If you do that, you will struggle to meet your goal and if you fail, then this can demotivate you and throw a spanner in the works.
But when you set a goal that is achievable and then you meet it, your confidence gets a real boost and you feel more determined to get on with meeting the next goal. And gradually but surely you will be getting your weight down to manageable proportions while giving your health a boost.