Like global warming the evidence is in — we re girthing up at an alarming rate.

People who are 100 pounds or more overweight are the fastest-growing group of overweight people, researchers reported - Reuters.

With continued trips to the trough we risk losing sight of our feet, for good.

Experts predict that nearly 100-percent of the North American population will be overweight in our lifetimes. Currently 67-percent of the adult population is overweight — leaning towards obese.

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I am going to lose 20 pounds! I am going to get back in shape! Sure, everybody has a few ideas of what they would like to accomplish. But do you have REAL goals? That is, a goal that you have defined, written down, and committed your motivation, discipline, and drive into? Do you have a goal that is so important to you that you have moved it to the number one slot of your daily priority list? Do you have specific steps that you will reach by a specific date?

You deserve to rise out of surviving life and step into thriving. By thriving, I mean that you get to decide for your self

what a more meaningful life would look like and then engage in the required actions to make that outcome happen. This means going beyond expecting, or hoping, for someone else to save you or fix the situation. It also means taking a step further than just knowing you do not want to eat or feel a certain way. How do you want to feel? What can you do to bring you one step closer to feeling that way?

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The short answer is Yes, it is possible to lose weight fast.

How Fast?: It is however important to remember that a healthy sensible amount of weight to lose really should not be more than say 2 pounds a week. If this is not as fast as you would like, then an accelerated weight loss program where the body s metabolism is geared to burn maximum fat may be ok for a limited time period.

What about Diet Pills?:There are a lot of pills on the market for fast weight loss with the usual testimonials and pictures etc that say that you can lose weight quickly. It seems to defy logic though that a tiny pill can help you lose

weight fast in a healthy sustainable way. Reminds me a little of the movie “Soylent Green” where the food of the day was a nutritional pill. How exciting is that?

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What is it that makes us feel old? It is a common human desire to want to find the fountain of youth. As we age, we look at the young and wonder why we don t have the energy we did when we were young. It is inevitable that our bodies eventually wear out. However many of us get old long before our time.

Maintaining a healthy body weight is one thing that we can do to help delay the aging process. Many of the disabilities associated with aging are actually hastened by the increased stress being overweight puts on the body.

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Over 130 million Americans, or 64% of the population, are either overweight or obese. This puts many people at risk for developing life-threatening diseases such as hypertension, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic syndrome. Many of these people want to lose weight, but are either unsuccessful on whatever diet they choose, or just don t know where to start. The fact is, which diet you go on is not important; it s just that you control what you eat and exercise. Even factoring genetic differences into the equation, Americans weight gain can be decreased simply with portion control and increased physical activity. The bottom line is

if you eat more calories that you burn, you will become overweight.

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