My long time friend Megan, asked me about a new diet and eating plan about three months ago. When my friends come to me with their questions about health I ask them a few questions of my own.
Since being "thin" is just part of being healthy, most people miss the boat on why they should loose weight. Afterall, there are many studies that tell us people with weight problems suffer from health issues because of it. My friend Megan, who is nearing her forties, recently came out of her doctor's office with the knowledge that she's developed Type II diabetes. (Here is a link to the American Diabetes Association's Website with infor on Type II diabetes if you are interested) I asked Megan the following questions...
Are you losing weight to look good in a smaller size blue jean or because you want to live a healthy life and watch your children and future grandchildren grow.
Are you losing weight to show your daughter that constant dieting is the way to live her life, or are you trying to teach your family to live their lives with a mindset on lifelong fitness?
Are you losing weight to teach your son that a woman's body has to look a certain way to be attractive, or are you doing it to teach him to support his future family's goals to be healthy and fit?
Megan gave me "that" look!
It took her about a month, but she came to me asking me for a few no nonsense tips to lifelong health. I gave her the book You Staying Young to help her educate herself while we started the process.
In the past month she's been walking three times a week, she bought a pedometer like the one I talked about in my blog here and she's up to 10,000 steps a day minimum, more on the days she walks. She's also added in resistance training with this resistance band set that I use.
Yesterday we woke up early to go to the beach and walk. I noticed a new glow, her normal demeanor drags in the morning but she was up and happy when I got to her house. She had made whole wheat pancakes with berries for her family and she was ready to hit the designated walking trail. I wondered how many others had noticed the difference.
"You look great!" I complemented her during our walk. "How much weight have you lost this month?"
"I stopped weighing myself," she explained. She'd noticed that her three year old daughter woke up every morning, went to mommy's bathroom and stood on the scale. She decided to get rid of it! Instead, she takes her weight from her monthly doctor's appointment and she goes on how she feels and how her clothes look on her! (Her last doctor's appointment showed her 12 pounds down from two weeks prior; the day she was diagnosed with Type II diabetes)
One month into her healthy lifestyle, Megan felt great and she did it all the natural way. Focusing on lifelong health and fitness as her goal, she'd improved not only her health, but the health of her family.
Since being "thin" is just part of being healthy, most people miss the boat on why they should loose weight. Afterall, there are many studies that tell us people with weight problems suffer from health issues because of it. My friend Megan, who is nearing her forties, recently came out of her doctor's office with the knowledge that she's developed Type II diabetes. (Here is a link to the American Diabetes Association's Website with infor on Type II diabetes if you are interested) I asked Megan the following questions...
Megan gave me "that" look!
It took her about a month, but she came to me asking me for a few no nonsense tips to lifelong health. I gave her the book You Staying Young to help her educate herself while we started the process.
In the past month she's been walking three times a week, she bought a pedometer like the one I talked about in my blog here and she's up to 10,000 steps a day minimum, more on the days she walks. She's also added in resistance training with this resistance band set that I use.
Yesterday we woke up early to go to the beach and walk. I noticed a new glow, her normal demeanor drags in the morning but she was up and happy when I got to her house. She had made whole wheat pancakes with berries for her family and she was ready to hit the designated walking trail. I wondered how many others had noticed the difference.
"You look great!" I complemented her during our walk. "How much weight have you lost this month?"
"I stopped weighing myself," she explained. She'd noticed that her three year old daughter woke up every morning, went to mommy's bathroom and stood on the scale. She decided to get rid of it! Instead, she takes her weight from her monthly doctor's appointment and she goes on how she feels and how her clothes look on her! (Her last doctor's appointment showed her 12 pounds down from two weeks prior; the day she was diagnosed with Type II diabetes)
One month into her healthy lifestyle, Megan felt great and she did it all the natural way. Focusing on lifelong health and fitness as her goal, she'd improved not only her health, but the health of her family.