The Suicidal Dieter
Picture a future world where you are sitting in front of the TV, watching your favorite show, and enjoying a bag of potato chips and dip. Suddenly, your front door gets kicked, and the Police enters your home and arrests you. The charge is murder, the victim – You.
This may be an exaggerated view of the future, but it is not far away from reality. Every day, millions of people practice suicide. Their bad habits are killing them, silently. Their bodies are being assaulted, little by little, and their life span shortened. Overweight people are more at risk. The following are habits that are contributing to your weight gain, and in the future to many health problems.
Lack of exercise – If you don’t move, you don’t burn calories, and end up overweight. This also contributes to lack of flexibility, joint pain, and many other ailments. The adage “If you don’t use it you lose it” is not far from the truth.
Denying bad healthy lifestyle habits – Even when you know what you have to do to lose the extra pounds, you don’t do it, or just refuse to think about how this is affecting your life.
Yo-yo dieting and magical pills – Losing weight is a combination of eating healthy foods, moderate exercise and making it a lifestyle, instead of a temporary fix. But for some reason we succumb to this bad habit of quick and easy gimmicks.
Drinking alcohol in excess – Alcoholic beverages have are high in calories. Moderation is key to weight loss.
Smoking – Watch the commercials.
Overeating – Calories, calories, and more calories. The solution for that would be Exercise, exercise and more exercise – but we fail to do it.
Skipping your first meal – I don’t say breakfast because for many people their first meal is in the evening, if they have a crazy schedule. So whenever your first meal of the day happens to be, have a healthy one, don’t skip it. It will lead to overeating during the day – or night.
Eating out of boredom or sadness a.k.a. emotional eating – Unless you know you are truly hungry don’t eat it. And if you eat it make it a healthy choice. Balance your meals during the day, so you don’t get too hungry. Next time you get the blues, exercise them out.
Eating out most of the time – Restaurant meals, fast food and vending machine snacks are a bad habit when you do it all the time. If you don’t cook, or have a hectic schedule, try to select healthy alternatives and watch the portions you consume.
Big amounts of the wrong foods – We love snacks, and eating big portions of unhealthy foods are like buying a front row ticket to your funeral.
Turning off the Doctor’s volume – Your Doctor did not spend 8 or more years of college to tell you lies. If he is telling you something about your health and where you are headed, listen to him/her. Better now that in the ER.
These are some of the bad habits of a Suicidal Dieter, sound familiar? It is never too late to adopt better habits to promote a healthy lifestyle. Live healthy, live happier, and live longer.
