Why is maintaining a good body weight important

I was sitting in the doctors office waiting to be seen, I noticed that the maximum weight for my height was 140lbs. At the time I was 140lbs so I started asking the doctor questions, because I was worried about issues that could arise if I added more weight to my body. I was told that adding additional weight to my frame could lead to a host of issues that could potentially shorten my life span.

 The question is why is it important to maintain a health weight? Their are a number of illnesses associated with carrying around extra weight, for example

 1. Diabetes
 2. Heart disease
 3. Sleep Apnea
 4. High cholesterol levels
 5. Certain types of cancers
 6. Osteoarthritis
 7. Stroke

Other less serious effects are the emotional toll that it takes on an individual, such things as low self esteem, depression, and other emotional effects. Lossing weight is no easy task, if someone told you it was easy for them be skeptical, it is not worth it going about it in an unhealthy way, as it would be very hard to keep the weight of.
When attempting to lose weight the first step is to make the decision, you have to want to lose weight. The next step is to look at your life style and pick out the habits that you know for a fact is sabotaging your quest to lose weight and lead a healthy life, and start eliminating them, and replacing them with habits that will facilitate your weight loss.

 Here's our challenge for this week, we are going to lose 3lbs this week. Continue with your water intake(if you are new look back at previous challenges), continue cutting you meals in half, and finally we are going to do 45 minutes of exercise 4 days in this week (anyone needing help with an exercise plan contact me).

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