Weight Loss - How Do You Know You’re Overweight?

Eat this, eat that! Do this do that! We’ve always complied to what our parents always drilled into us right from the young age.

Attained good Education and good Morals to go with it. Now, the real life (Adult life) starts, but because of the hustling and bustling, looking for a good job, house and perhaps a perfect love one, this has taken its toll on most of us. You can hardly find time to sit, let alone eat, hence you’re as THIN as ever.

You keep getting all these compliments from acquaintances and friends on how thin you look and how well you’ve maintained your figure. You will accept these compliments, but deep down inside of you, you know you had nothing to do with it. It’s not some “MAGIC Weight Loss Program”. It’s just that you’re far too busy trying to live a better life, but as result had to compromise along the way.

Okay, now you’ve found the job you really want and of course there comes along the house (Property) you really want too. Now life is rosy, good, Fun. You’re more relaxed to the extent that now, you’ve now set up a time-table of meals to have consumed on each day of the week.

Life couldn’t be any better, as now, you’ve also found a lover, a companion. Set up a home together and hence ultimately start raising a family as you feel you’ve attained all your life ambitions.

Now you’re in the routine of; waking up - drop the kids in school- go to work - call partner at work to assure him or her everything went all right - go home after work, oh I forgot, go to the shops for few groceries on your way home - get the meal ready, and eat - go to bed. You might not live your life in this order, but at least you get the drift.

You’ve now fall in this pattern of routine until one day one noticed your favourite jeans and top (don’t tell me you haven’t got one, as we all have one), you know, the ones you always want to wear out shopping, to the cinema, staying at home in, and perhaps visiting the in-laws in, are slightly tighter than usual. What do you do, “Hey, honey, we need to go shopping for some clothes”.

What have you just done there? You’ve just accommodated your new waist size, you’ve just accepted that you’re comfortable with this new weight. Indeed, what you should have done when you found that your favourite clothes are tighter than usual is: “TRY AND FIT BACK INTO THEM” whichever way or means possible.

But the sad truth is, almost all of us are guilty of this. And we continue to keep our slim, now too-tight clothes somewhere in the corner our of bedrooms in the hope of fitting into them some time in the near future. But you know what? You never will, but for just a handful of us will eventually do.

So, let me ask the above question again. ”How Do You Know You’re Overweight? The answer is, we all know this all the time as the signs are there for us to see and for us to do some thing about it. But we hardly do, maybe because of our busy schedules or just in plain “DENIAL”.

I bet when you saw the above headlines, I bet you thought you’re going to be reading something like, “11 points to look out for….blah blah blah”.

The bottom line is, the only way to know you’re overweight is by you “ADMITTING” it and immediately doing something about it.

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