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How to stay motivated when trying to reach your goal weight begins with a strong desire to lose weight. Sustaining the enthusiasm usually dramatically diminishes as the scale doesn’t respond fast enough. The reality is it took some time to gain the weight, and reversing the trend will take time. Concentrating on the numbers isn’t the way to go about losing weight.

Weight Loss Rewards

The reward is in the effort as much as the outcome. This is the reality, the new and improved lifestyle says a lot on how you feel about yourself. When you diet just for the sake of losing weight you usually wind up with a short fix. This way is usually responsible for the yo-yo dieting. That is the one where it is akin to using duct tape and safety pins to take something and make it smaller.

The purpose of dieting has to be more that to get into a pair of jeans. The benefits are so huge that most recently it is considered a solution to type 2 diabetes, the metabolic syndrome, blood pressure problems, cardiovascular conditions, mobility, and even cancer prevention. Weight loss supports cellular energy, physical performance, and graceful aging.

Obesity and Liver Disease

Obesity leads to liver disease. There is a growing relationship between weight and liver disease. With nearly two-thirds of the population being either overweight or obese, we are seeing a rise in liver diseases. A malfunctioning liver is responsible for a host of health related conditions. These range from brain changes that mimic Alzheimer’s, because it results in memory lapses and lack of coordination. The liver detoxifies environmental pollutants, and chemicals that are in the air or food that we eat.

Dr. Naim Alkhouri, a hepatologist at the Cleveland clinic states “Its overwhelming how many patients we’re seeing with this problem. Dr. William Carey, also a hepatologist at the Cleveland Clinic says , “This is huge. We didn’t know this disease existed 30 years ago. Now, it’s the most common liver disease in America.”

Message

The message that isn’t being delivered to the weight loss crowd is this isn’t about the blubber that has hitched a ride and landed as a permanent guest. This isn’t only about beer bellies, thunder thighs, over flowing bosoms, expanded waist size of padded backsides, it’s about the quantity and quality of your life.

Accelerating weight loss by modulating your diet to increase healthy function is a long term goal. Enhancing your ability to enjoy life is one of the beneficial effects of weight management. Being chronically overweight suppresses immunity, causes some forms of hypertension, raises blood sugar, causes insulin resistance, reduces libido, causes erectile dysfunction, and accelerates aging.

One More Reason to Lose Weight

If you need one more reason to lose weight here it is. Soon enough you are going to have to defend yourselves.

Being overweight or obese turns out to be the leading medical reason why applicants fail to qualify for military service. The army had to respond to this by making allowances for recruits who are fat and out of shape. Sit-ups and long runs are out, while yoga like movements are in.

Between 1995 and 2008, the proportion of potential recruits who failed their physicals each year because they were over weight increased to nearly 70 percent of young adults between the ages of 17 to 24 were too fat for military service.

What more motivation is needed to minimize the portion of food on  plates, and change lifestyles in order to support health.

The new weapon for peace on earth took some American ingenuity. Leave it to us, we can come up with some unique solutions to some very complex problem

The Standard American Diet Is The Solution

The standard American diet is the solution as long as we export it to all belligerent nations. That means no more embargo, instead the opposite approach is the solution to the world’s turmoil.  

We can’t send our processed food over fast enough. The proportion of young Americans that are too fat to fight or serve in the military is so high, that it is posing a treat to our security. This is according to a group of retired military leaders. 

Retired US army generals John M.Shalikashvili and Hugh Shelton, referred to different sources, including the US Army”s own analysis to national data that shows as of 2005, 27 percent of Americans aged 17 to 24 were too overweight to serve in the military. That was in 2005, when some 9 million young adults, were deemed too overweight to serve.

The leading medical reason recruits are rejected for military service in the US today is for being overweight or obese, wrote Shalikashvili and Shelton, both members of the executive advisory council of Mission Readiness, a non profit organization to retired senior military leaders. Also, a recent report from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research showed over the past 15 years the proportion of potential recruits who have not passed their physical exam because of weight has gone up nearly 70 percent.

Retired Navy Rear Adm. James Barnett Jr, a member of the officers group, said at a recent press conference held by Mission: Readiness, that national security in the year 2030 is “absolutely dependent” on reversing child obesity rates.

“When over a quarter of young adults are too fat to fight, we need to take notice,” said Barnett, according to a report by Associated Press.

The obesity problem doesn’t just affect recruitment, Mission: Readiness reports that the government spends tens of millions of dollars every year replacing military personnel that have to be discharged because of weight issues.

Sending Processed Food Overseas

Sending processed food overseas has to be less expensive than developing weapons of mass destruction. Also, the best part is once the people are addicted to the food, they will need us to keep supplying it. It would make sense for them not to destroy their source.

The other option is to implement don’t ask don’t tell where one’s weight is not taken. People can imply your overweight, but if you don’t mention this to anyone you can serve your country.