Slimming Down - Fast!

This is the time of year where traditionally you look forward to the coming year and imagine a better version for yourself.

There is nothing wrong with this per se, but as I see it there really is only one thing you should commit to this year and that is “Staying Healthy” and the easiest way to do that is by Slimming Down – losing weight 

Your health underpins everything you do. Without it, all is lost. There are plenty of sick wealthy people wishing that their money could buy them health. For the majority of you it should be your number one priority. You may not have thought much about it but your hopes, your dreams and your aspirations really are tied solidly to your health.

Slimming Down - Getting Started: Assuming you are sedentary, (for most people the only exercise they do is breathing) what do you need to do to get started? Just do a bit more than you are doing now. For example, if you live in town, walk everywhere (whenever you can).

Do more than you do now. Set aside the time and walk any distance that is less than 1 mile or so. That’s about 30 minutes there and back –It is, in the scheme of things, no time at all, but can make a big difference to your health.

Slimming Down – Teenager: If you are a teenager, leave the computer games, FaceBook et al, indoors and play some sport instead somewhere other than inside your home. Why not try dancing – salsa or zumba or some other sport like tennis, table-tennis or football? However, you need to commit to it – by that I mean join a club and play in one of the local leagues so that you have to commit. 

50’s Slimming Down –If you are in your fifties, looking ahead, there is one
big piece of advice I’d make. “Make sure to work your joints to their extreme
limit, daily”. It is from this point onwards, (in your fifties) that in the next
20 years or so, your joints will begin to function less if you let them. They do
this primarily because we accept that “we’re getting on in age” and we work to avoid any pain in moving our joints. Don’t succumb to reducing your joint movement! That acceptance is the fast-track path to old age and to immobility. 

Do not readily accept any walking aid when prescribed unless it will actually prevent you from physically falling over. Don’t accept one of those devices used to pick things up from the floor – they save you from bending – and you do not want to stop bending - ever. Beware your doctor, who however well-meaning will probably try to persuade you, but try your hardest to resist. Remember that mobility equals independence.

Commit to remaining mobile - Probably the most important thing you should commit to doing this year is to reducing your body weight if indeed you are overweight. This is a big battle for everyone. For some, not today, but surely for most tomorrow.

Without weight control, your weight just grows and grows and with it come all sorts of ailments that affect your joints, ability to breathe and move. Commit now to reducing it. Sure, it requires a paradigm shift but it just requires that you get started. Consider getting yourself a personal trainer – someone that can understand your goals and continue to motivate you as you move forward.

Second to money management, weight management, especially as food is cheap, abundant and convenient, you need to grab this particular obesity bull by the horns and wrestle it to the ground this year.

One thing to note is that as you get older, being over-weight, your inclinations towards slimming down do reduce, and you tell yourself that you can’t do it or that it is too late. Beware of this.

So commit to getting fitter by slimming down now while you can.

Happy New Year

To your greater weight loss

Dominic


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I want to tell you a quick story.

A few months ago I was reading a book by Ian Marber about food entitled How Not to get Fat. I turned to a page that to this day has remained with me. On the left page was a list of things that the author described as being ok to eat. There were so many items in this list of foods that the font of the text had to be reduced to fit them all onto the page.

On the page on the right was a list of things you shouldn’t eat, that you should therefore avoid. In fact, it was one thing. Just one thing! Do you know what that one thing was? Yes, you guessed it right – Sugar.

Sugar is possibly one of the most addictive substances ever. It is everywhere and appear in many forms of lovely looking, sweet tasting, fantastic smelling cakes and pastries. We love it- we tell ourselves that we deserve it. The fact that sugar is all pervasive (everywhere) is a measure of the extent that we love it and crave it and shops stock it in abundance because we continue demand it.

Finding lunch around London can be difficult if you favour a protein-based lunch because all around are all kinds of carb-based sandwiches, pastas and sweet pastries.

What’s less obvious about sugar is that it’s close to the kind of energy that the body expects to use.  It is easily convert to glucose to use as energy. In the form of sugar it does not take much energy to convert for a process that is already very efficient in converting intake to glucose. Sugar in all its forms, is one of the easiest to convert as opposed to something like steak for example.

While like most people I love sweet things, the thing to note about sugar is that unless you intend to use that immediate energy by exerting yourself regularly you’re likely to store that energy as fat automatically and in all the wrong places – then you spend the rest of your life trying to get rid of it. Sugar and carbs are useful for those outdoor workers that require energy often – builders and sportspeople spring to mind, but much less useful for those of us who sit in front of computer screens all day long.

My advice to you is to be strong- resist sugar in all its forms. Think medium to long term. Living a long life requires that you be tough, mentally strong and resilient. The sooner you can liberate yourself from the tyranny of sugar, the healthier you will be over the long term. Not only that, but you will be ruling out the possibility of all kinds of sugar-related diseases like diabetes mellitus where you may end up having to have a limb or two removed. That is not the life your mother intended for you at birth now, is it? 

According to Wikipedia, diabetes is also linked Alzheimer Disease, not to mention tooth decay and potential loss of teeth. Say this now to yourself “No dentures for me, ever”. Imagine your dentures in a glass of water. Not a pretty sight is it?

So, have sugar only occasionally, if at all. Don’t try to replace the sugar taste with sweeteners (there are already links to brain disease for some sweeteners on the market)– go the whole distance and change your tastes – remember that you learned those tastes and so they can be unlearned. You will definitely be liberated.

So be tough, be strong, get started today. Take your power back. You are at the end of a long line of survivors so don’t become the wrong kind of statistic. Dump the sweet stuff today.

Time will show that this is one of the most useful pieces of information that it is possible for you to receive – all because of that book I stumbled across.

Education is key – read about it and learn for yourself How Not to Get Fat

To your greater weight loss

Dominic

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