Lose Weight NOW! - The Truth or Consequences Diet?
By Greg Ryan
If you knew when you were going to die, would you really want to know? If
you knew when you were going to lose your life, would you do anything
differently? If you had a choice of living longer or living a better quality
of life, which would you choose, longer or better?
People say, “if only” they had known they were going to have this happen
to me, they would have done things differently. IF ONLY…I had not stressed
so much about life. IF ONLY…I had known this was going to happen; maybe I
would have stopped smoking, laid off a few hamburgers and fries. Who knows?
Maybe I would have taken the stairs more, ridden my bike, and had a medical
check up more often.
What if you could actively change the outcome of your life by eating
better and getting daily exercise? What if you felt better, had more energy,
less pain, and a better attitude toward aging? What if you approached life
with more confidence, rather than dreading the day? The fact is you will
never know ahead of time when your life will end. Life, love and logic never
seem to be on the same page. You can leave this earth anytime and for any
reason. How you decide to live those days before you do go is your choice.
You can continue down the path you’re going with achy joints, low energy
levels, high stress, and poor eating habits or you can choose a different
path.
The health of America is going to get worse before it gets better.
Diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, heart disease—are all at epidemic levels.
And for the first time in history the kids of today are projected not to
live as long as there parents have. The only way for the health of America
to get better is for you to be personally responsible, change your attitudes
toward exercise, and support one another in the process.
The silent threesome of denial, pride, and lazy has been muted by the
fantasy fitness land programs promises immediate results. This silent
treatment is killing you from the INSIDE OUT. Until a few years ago, it was
thought that Americans were healthy. Of course, that’s not true. We’ve had a
health problem for years.
In the “good years,” more money, more marketing and more-for-me attitudes
enabled you to focus on making the big bucks. It allowed you to put off
worrying about healthy bodies. The accent was on NOW and not later. But the
fiscal wealth we accumulated years ago is NOW being drained by our physical
healthcare costs. Eventually, your bad health will consume all the extra
dollars you worked so hard to earn. Some of the responsibility falls with
the big corporations, insurance companies and hospital groups. But at the
end of the day, the buck stops with YOU.
The reality of this situation bites; however, the solution is not to
ignore it, but to encourage people to embrace it. Many of you have either
given up on yourself or just flat out are living in denial. Either way the
choice is still yours. The fact of the matter is there is still hope for
America and there is still hope for you, too.
Don’t let the buck stop with you. Take care of your own life before it
takes charge of you.
What if you knew that if you didn’t exercise, you would face the
CONSEQUENCES soon?
What if you knew that your kids would do exactly as you do? Most people
wait until something happens to them or to someone close to them before they
change their lifestyle habits. There are no guarantees that healthy living
will add one more day to your life, but what if it could? At the very least,
what if your day-to-day quality of life could be better?
Or worse yet, what if tomorrow a stroke, heart attack, or cancer struck
your life? What then? The first thing to do is for you to face the music or
embrace the reality of your health. Accepting your circumstances does not
mean you are admitting defeat. It means you are starting to build a
foundation in order to move forward.
In a Nut Shell:
Life sometimes has a way of giving us slight hints or sometimes shocking
wake-up calls. The question is, “Will you answer the call?” Would your life
be any different if you knew what the future held? Most of us would say it
would be. The truth is in that old saying, “We really are not promised
tomorrow.” You may not be able to change when you will die, but you sure can
change how you feel each day through daily exercise and eating the right
foods. What would your life be like if you felt better, had more energy and
lowered your stress levels? Can you imagine? No one wants bad things to
happen to their health. No one wants to pay the price for his or her bad
decision, right?
“Are you going to let Denial, Pride, and Laziness keep their grip on
you?” There are no guarantees that exercise and eating will prolong death or
ward off a disease. However, there is a good chance they can give you a
better quality of life? No doubt our health as a whole will get worse before
it gets better, but it does not have to be that way for you.
The bottom line is: denying your health is a losing cause; entertaining
pride is a waste of energy; and being lazy is no excuse for anything. In the
end, only you will be able to decide to accept the truth or deal with the
consequences.
Greg Ryan best selling author of the Changing from the "INSIDE OUT",
former employee of Kathy Smith and a high profile fitness expert. Discover
the five step common sense way to lose weight that the medical and fitness
industry’s DON’T want you to know.
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