The key to long term health is to not get overweight to begin with and to eat healthy from childhood on so that your body is healthy on the inside too.
Just because you are skinny, doesn't mean you are healthy. Normal weight people get Type 2 diabetes and develop heart disease too. There are many other ailments that develop as we age that can be attributed to a life time of poor eating and other habits (osteoporosis, high blood pressure, arthritis, bowel disorders, GERD, Alzheimers, and many more, plus many of these things could increase the chances of cancer and stroke).
If you happen to have found yourself overweight and/or in poor health, you can do something NOW to get yourself to a healthier state no matter how old, oveweight, in poor health you are. And you may be amazed when just small gradual changes slowly roll up to make a dramatic improvement in your health.
- Change your eating habits. You can either do a drastic method and go cold turkey, or make gradual changes over time, cutting out problematic foods and quantity of food and replacing what you eat with healthier options.
- Cut out wheat and sugar. This alone will make a huge difference in your health. Give it at least 30 days to start with. Then 60 and 90. After that, test a little of each and see how you do with it. If you feel okay, have them occasionally (maybe once a week) but no longer as a staple of your diet.
- Find a new healthier eating plan and stick to it. Forever. There is no "dieting" until the scale says a magic number. It's what's on the inside that counts.
- Exercise 3 times a week, if not more. And something more than walking. Incorporate a weight/resistance training into your exercise along with some form of cardio vascular exercise. Find things you love to do and do it. No exceptions.
- Weigh and measure monthly.
- Track your food daily.
- Drink 8 or more glasses of water every day. Not tea, coffee or any other beverage. Water.
- Get proper sleep. 7-8 hours a night.
- See your doctor on a regular basis. Get an annual checkup of cholesterol *, glucose, thyroid*, insulin, CMP levels, and consider having your female/male hormones, adrenals, Vitamin D, checked as well. * are for tests to be considered carefully and make sure they are testing the right things. The standard VAP cholesterol test is questionable and a NMR profile may be more accurate. Likewise, TSH and T4 are not sufficient for thyroid testing, they should also test free T3 and TPO as well.
- Stop making excuses and just do it. Your life depends upon it. It's going to be hard but even harder the longer you put it off. Start now.
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