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Table of Contents
Does This Sound Familiar?
Do you like what you see when you look in the mirror?
If youre one of the two-thirds of Americans (or 30 percent of the rest of the world ) who are overweight, then answer is probably no.
If this sounds familiar, then youre not alone.
It is likely that you are struggling with one of the most common problems people have with their healthlosing weight and keeping it off.
Perhaps you cant get your body back to how it looked in high school. Maybe your body has never looked the way you wanted it to, but you know you need to make that change. Or you might simply want to take part in activities with your friends and family, but the extra weight is holding you back.
Furthermore, perhaps the only thing worse than what you see in the mirror is what you see in your mind. When you picture your self-image, its so disappointing that it shatters your self-confidence. It can affect your ability to interact with other people and advance your career, and even how you feel on a day-to-day basis.
As youve gotten older, youve lost interest in intimacy because of the extra weight. You dont like how you look. You dont like how you feel. And you dont have the strength and endurance to do the activities that others seem to effortlessly enjoy.
The Bad News
Unfortunately, there are a wide range of negative effects if you dont make a permanent change in your weight loss efforts. So lets start with the scary stuff that most people tend to ignore.
Overweight people are more likely to die from nearly every single cause of death, ranging from heart disease to cancer. The bigger you are, the younger you will die.
One of the biggest predictors of early death is the additional inches around the waistline. The more inches you have, the sooner you will die. Two-thirds of all obese people have hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, and other obesity-related diseases.
Consider these recent statistics . At a worldwide population of approximately 7 billion people, 2.1 billion of them are overweight or obese.
According to the World Health Organization , obesity rates have tripled in the last 40 years. One out of every three American citizens is considered obese, and obesity is the fifth leading cause of death.
According to the New England Journal of Medicine , every single year, a high body mass index is responsible for more than four million deaths around the world. In simple terms, that means that, every single year, seven percent of all deaths are caused by being overweight.
According to the National Cancer Institute , over nine percent of all new cancer cases in women and over three percent of all cancer cases in men were due to them being overweight or obese in 2012.
According to the World Health Organization , every single year, more people die from being overweight than underweight. In the United States, the obesity epidemic costs $210 billion a year . Unfortunately, the US leads the world in this epidemic .
One of the leading causes of this obesity pandemic is sugar addiction, which has the same effect on the brain as illegal drugs. According to multiple studies (see here and here ), it causes an increase in dopamine levels, which leads to behaviors such as bingeing, craving, withdrawal, and dependence. Its been labeled quite accurately as the worlds most popular drug , surpassing the cocaine reward and lighting up the same rewards at brain centers as highly addictive drugs .
According to the Center for Disease Control and the Harvard School of Public Health , extra pounds can cause heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, multiple types of cancer, diminished reproductive and respiratory functions, mood issues, and memory problems as well.
Obesity-related diseases are the cause of so much preventable death. Being obese and overweight is associated with a decrease in life expectancy by as much as one third , as well as shattering the quality of your life.
The Good News
Fortunately, things arent hopeless. According to the International Journal of Obesity , even modest weight loss can have instant beneficial results on your health. Youll start to feel stronger, healthier, and more vibrant with confidence. Your clothes will fit better, you wont feel as tired, and your heart problems and other health issues will start to disappear.
Depending on how much weight you need to lose, it could take longer for some of these results to start to appear, but believe meits going to happen. You can reverse so many of the health problems that you think are eternal.
As you improve your health, youre going to experience a decreased risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and certain types of cancers.
Youre going to experience regulated blood sugar, cholesterol, and blood pressure levels , improved mobility , decreased joint and muscular pain , improved sleep, and increased energy.
A study by Swedish researchers found that you will even improve your memory as you start to shed those pounds. Most important of all, youll decrease your overall body inflammationthe root cause of even more diseases than weve already listed .
In addition to all these health benefits, there are some pretty sweet lifestyle benefits too, starting with how much less money youll spend on health care .
While many people think that eating unhealthily is cheaper, when you factor in the medical costs of this behavior, it ends up being significantly more expensive. The amount of money spent on managing the effects of being overweight and obese is simply astounding.
According to the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation , losing weight can decrease your health care costs by as much as 90 percent.
Even better, you will have the potential to make more money. According to a longitudinal study based on the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, obese workers receive lower wages than people with lower weight.
