How to lose weight fast – the ultimate antidote for the great modern ailment of gaining weight fast. If only it were as easy to lose weight as it is to put it on.
There are so many different reasons for gaining weight:
- Advertising
- Availability and prevalence of food
- Cultural changes for children
- Eating disorders
- Genetic predisposition
- Hormones
- Labour-saving devices
- Lack of exercise
- Lack of sleep
- Medicines
- Over-eating / gluttony
- Physical and sexual abuse
- Poor quality food
- Rise of the high-fat / sugar convenience meal
- To tackle these problems, there is a battery of fads, diets, programs, regimes and so forth.
I hate the word ‘obese’ – it makes you sound like some kind of pervert; “Hey, this guy’s obese. Better keep your kids away from him, missus.” It’s a label and a dangerous label, too. We’ve just listed fifteen different reasons for weight problems and then we instantly want to gather them together in one box. It doesn’t make sense.
According to the ‘shock-jock’ type pundits who get off on the hate-philosophy of things like, “You’re just weak-willed. If you shovel too much in at one end and not enough comes out at the other, what do you expect?”, it’s all so very simple. But stop a second to think about it. We all know that carrying too much weight around is bad news therefore someone who has a weight problem could have:
- Psychological issues which are causing them to seek comfort in foods that aren’t healthy
- An inability to grasp the consequences of what they are doing
- Financial or sociological problems which are forcing them to eat badly
- Health problems which mean they can’t exercise enough
- A history of sexual or physical abuse
- Genetic tendencies to gain weight
There are probably more. Each of those six possible causes is uniquely different in the way in which it should be treated. Yet, because it is nice and simple, they all get lumped together.
Another problem is the way the illness is portrayed. The ‘shock-horror’ media merchants love either finding 350kg+ bed-bound creatures who get through about 20,000 calories a day, or showing endless pictures of Americans eating massive greasy burgers, each with a ‘side order of fries’ and washed down with a can of full-sugar ‘soda’.
For those of us who have battled with weight issues all our lives, these images reinforce the notion that our ailment is ‘self-inflicted’ which is both insulting and obstructive. They only serve to marginalise and generate animosity among the brainless sub-group that thrive on having someone to hate (why is there no law against being wilfully thick?). Witness the popularity of the acronym ‘BMI’. If you could go back in time just a few years, I bet no-one would know what you were talking about – perhaps a few might say ‘British Midlands International’ but no-one would come up with ‘Body Mass Index’.
Now, it’s BMI this and BMI that. They demand to know your BMI before you go into hospital and then make their decisions about whether to admit you almost exclusively on this figure. Like having a BMI of 22 means you’re wonderfully healthy while someone with a BMI of 55 must be terminally unhealthy. I’m sick to death (excuse the pun) of quacks telling me that I ought to be dead therefore there’s no point in treating me.
Conventional dieting hits the spot if you only need to lose a few pounds/kilos. Losing weight by replacing your bacon butty with a bowl of salad doesn’t work if you need to make a really big difference. On a standard diet, your body adapts, slows down and, sooner or later, you figure that you might as well give up. Then you yo-yo and end up weighing more than when you started.
I’m going to look at ways of losing weight quickly and safely and, at the same time, try to address the different issues that causes people to be overweight in the first place.
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