I am by nature very positive person. I usually talk and enjoy talking and writing about good positive stuff that elevates mood. But if I can scare you just a little bit to take positive action it’s worth it. So I decided, that I will.
There is a lot of scary stuff about being overweight. And I will start with the scariest. And I hope I will motivate you by them. My intention is not to scare you only, my intention is to scare you and motivate you into action. It really works for me. That’s why I try to apply this principle to other people trying to change and lose weight permanently.
I personally get really motivated by finding out about certain scary situation I am putting myself in and eliminating it. I actually get motivated by this a lot. One of the recent example I got really scared of, that motivated me to change my habit was finding out, that some latest studies showed, that Alzheimer’s disease is form of diabetes and it’s caused by sugar consumption. Also I read a study that cancer feeds on sugar. This made me very motivated to eliminate every possible extra sugar and white flour in my diet. It made me quit my evening occasional ice cream habit and replacing it with healthy natural smoothie. So let’s get to few very scary examples that will hopefully motivate you:
Amputated legs
Many legs get amputated in the world every year. U.S. Is the leading country in leg amputation. What is the reason for these amputations. It’s a lack of circulation of blood caused by diabetes. And the main cause is type 2 diabetes. And type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle disease. Majority of type 2 diabetic people are overweight, inactive, very sedentary types.
Of course, there is type 1 diabetes that’s dangerous too and that’s the kind we are born with or we get in spite of leading healthy lifestyle. Bud by far the majority of the cases are the type 2 diabetes people who get their leg amputated.
The interesting thing is, that the type 2 diabetes is very successfully reversible by change in the lifestyle. When pre diabetic or diabetic person starts regular exercise regiment and introduces heathy diet and subsequently drops the weight, his sugar levels decline, insulin resistance disappears and type 2 diabetes is gone.
My questions to you are: Are you overweight? Are you inactive? Did you go to the doctors office and he told you, that you have higher blood sugar levels than you should? Are you pre diabetic or are you already diabetic? If yes is the answer to only one of these questions and you don’t change, your chances of your leg being amputated at some point in your life rises exponentially. And that is a pretty scary outlook to the future. I would trade to keep my both legs for healthy lifestyle anytime! 3 apples instead of 3 doughnuts anybody? Not sweet and tasty enough for you? You better get use to it fast. Doughnut like foods are slowly killing you from inside. It’s time to eliminate them.
Heart attacks
Forget the amputated leg you might be facing when you are overweight. What if you just get a massive heart attack on the way to work tomorrow and you die on the spot? Or maybe you don’t die and will be rescued, but you will face the consequences for the rest of your life? Yes, that can actually happen and your probability of that to happen raises exponentially if you are overweight, don’t exercise regularly and eat poorly.
But, if you change that and you loose weight, start exercising regularly and start eating better, the chances of dying of heart attack almost completely disappear. Well, if that doesn’t motivate you to start right now, I don’t know what will.
Cancer
Being overweight, inactive and eating poor diet magnifies your chances of being diagnosed with many kinds of scary cancers. And we all know somebody close to us who is or was battling this carry disease. The life of a cancer patient is a true misery, pain and incredible suffering. Can you imagine your doctor telling you to get ready to die? That there is no hope for you anymore?
It’s really, really bad and often we forget and don’t realize how bad it is before we become one of those patients. How about doing everything, lovering the chances to a minimum and don’t give the cancer a change? With lifestyle, you can do it. And you should. Otherwise, you are playing with dangerous fire. Losing weight permanently is one of those magnificent action toward cancer prevention.
Dementia
When we get inactive, overweight and eat diet full of processed foods loaded with sugar, flour, our arteries suffer. They are literary on fire from the inflammation happening there that is caused by our lifestyle. But, there are not only heart, intestines and all organs in our body that rely on healthy cardiovascular system. Your most important organ – brain suffers too.
Our brain is the center tower in our body. Everything starts in our brain. And for it to function well, the clear and plentiful oxygen and nutrient supply that comes through brain arteries is necessary.
When we are overweight, sedentary and our diet is terrible our brain suffers. It’s not working well, we forget stuff, we are tired very easily and we put ourself in danger of stroke, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Have you seen a person after he survived stroke? Than you know what I am talking about. These people, who survive stroke are relied on other people for the rest of their life’s. it’s completely appropriate to be scared and afraid of this condition.
With a poor diet and sedentary lifestyle, permanent inflammation in your brain arteries sets in, slowing you down mentally and setting the time bomb that’s about to explode anytime. A lot of it is not understood yet. Bet am pretty sure that too much sugar washing your brain everyday is a huge part of the problem. Believe me and do something about that!
It’s your choice
Decrease your chances of suffering by these scary conditions by improving your lifestyle and loosing weight permanently. Ok, now enough of the scary stuff. It makes me sad, just to thing about it and scared at the same time. I don’t know how about you, but if something was out of whack in my life like me being inactive, consuming terrible diet and being overweight, I would really get motivated by these examples. How about you? Time to take action!
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