How can I lower my risk of health problems related to being overweight?
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If you are considered to be overweight, losing as little as 5 percent of your body weight may lower your risk for several diseases, including heart disease and type 2 diabetes. If you weigh 200 pounds, this means losing 10 pounds. Slow and steady weight loss of ½ to 2 pounds per week, and not more than 3 pounds per week, is the safest way to lose weight.
Guidelines on physical activity recommend that you get at least 150 minutes a week of moderate aerobic activity (like biking or brisk walking). To lose weight, or to maintain weight loss, you may need to be active for up to 300 minutes per week. You also need to do activities to strengthen muscles (like push-ups or sit-ups) at least twice a week.
Read through the ‘How to lose weight’ and ‘Healthy eating’ sections to gain greater knowledge and understanding so you will be better placed to lose weight if that is needed. Also, look to increase your physical activity and exercise levels.
Emotional health
The above section outlined many areas of physical health that can be at risk due to being overweight, but there are also many emotional health issues that can affect people, often on a daily basis. There is the saying ‘you are what you eat’, but also it is often true to say that ‘you feel what you eat’, as being overweight can affect you in a variety of other ways that impact on your life and happiness.
Confidence and self-esteem
For many people who are overweight their confidence and self-esteem can be affected in a negative way. Lower confidence and lower self-esteem result directly from being overweight and also indirectly from a range of factors that being overweight can affect. Confidence and self-esteem play a huge role in how happy we are in our lives and can be both the cause and effect of a number of issues. The more confident we are the more likely we are to try new things, go to new places, meet new people, achieve and accomplish more, believe we can succeed in something and generally live a more fulfilling, successful and satisfying life. If we don’t achieve what we want, if we don’t look how we would like to, if we get criticised and judged negatively by others and are not who we want to be, then our confidence decreases. The same can apply to self-esteem.
If we are overweight and do not want to be then there is a good chance that it will lower our confidence and self-esteem in these ways and will continue to have an effect as long as we are in that position. You may be very happy and content with many other aspects of your life, but those will also be affected as a consequence, so the effect of being overweight is compounded far more than the actual issue itself. On the positive side, if you are overweight and do things that help reduce your weight, and you see and feel the difference, then your confidence and self-esteem are likely to increase quite quickly, hopefully motivating you to continue with the weight loss Another book in this series focuses on confidence and may be helpful to read. It is called Understanding & Building Confidence.
Guidelines on physical activity recommend that you get at least 150 minutes a week of moderate aerobic activity (like biking or brisk walking). To lose weight, or to maintain weight loss, you may need to be active for up to 300 minutes per week. You also need to do activities to strengthen muscles (like push-ups or sit-ups) at least twice a week.
Read through the ‘How to lose weight’ and ‘Healthy eating’ sections to gain greater knowledge and understanding so you will be better placed to lose weight if that is needed. Also, look to increase your physical activity and exercise levels.
Emotional health
The above section outlined many areas of physical health that can be at risk due to being overweight, but there are also many emotional health issues that can affect people, often on a daily basis. There is the saying ‘you are what you eat’, but also it is often true to say that ‘you feel what you eat’, as being overweight can affect you in a variety of other ways that impact on your life and happiness.
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Confidence and self-esteem
For many people who are overweight their confidence and self-esteem can be affected in a negative way. Lower confidence and lower self-esteem result directly from being overweight and also indirectly from a range of factors that being overweight can affect. Confidence and self-esteem play a huge role in how happy we are in our lives and can be both the cause and effect of a number of issues. The more confident we are the more likely we are to try new things, go to new places, meet new people, achieve and accomplish more, believe we can succeed in something and generally live a more fulfilling, successful and satisfying life. If we don’t achieve what we want, if we don’t look how we would like to, if we get criticised and judged negatively by others and are not who we want to be, then our confidence decreases. The same can apply to self-esteem.
If we are overweight and do not want to be then there is a good chance that it will lower our confidence and self-esteem in these ways and will continue to have an effect as long as we are in that position. You may be very happy and content with many other aspects of your life, but those will also be affected as a consequence, so the effect of being overweight is compounded far more than the actual issue itself. On the positive side, if you are overweight and do things that help reduce your weight, and you see and feel the difference, then your confidence and self-esteem are likely to increase quite quickly, hopefully motivating you to continue with the weight loss Another book in this series focuses on confidence and may be helpful to read. It is called Understanding & Building Confidence.
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