| Many people try to lose their weight to look good | | | | maintain the ideal weight. We all have heard about |
| in swimming suits or to wear size three. That | | | | or experienced a yo-yo diet. Those who have |
| could be one of the reasons why most of them | | | | yo-yo diet usually make effort to lose weight just |
| fail to reach their weight loss goals. They are | | | | to look good, not for the purpose of getting |
| focusing on a wrong thing and they should focus | | | | healthier. They watch infomercials late night and |
| more on getting healthy by losing weight. Once | | | | keep trying new miracle diets or products. They |
| you get healthier physically, you will naturally lose | | | | might lose weight for a short term but the weight |
| weight and feel really good. | | | | almost always comes back. People should think of |
| My dad used to be a little overweight even | | | | getting healthy for a long term. |
| though he did not have hypertension or high | | | | To get healthy for a long term, you need a good |
| cholesterol problem. We persuade him to eat | | | | plan and need have a discipline to follow your plan |
| health food and cut back on calories but he never | | | | from the beginning to the end. Actually, there is |
| listened to us. One day, he went to see a doctor | | | | no end because getting healthy and maintain |
| for an annual physical check-up and he found out | | | | health is an on-going process that never ends. I |
| that he had high cholesterol. He had been very | | | | think many of diet programs work only for the |
| healthy for his entire life and that was the first | | | | short term but there are others that are |
| time a doctor gave him a bad news. | | | | designed to reach the health goals for the long |
| He is a kind of extreme guy in a good sense that | | | | term. |
| he totally changed his diet to lower his cholesterol | | | | Once you find one program that works for you, |
| levels. He never tried to lose a spare tire but now | | | | the key to the success is to stick with the plan. |
| he is so motivated to get healthier. After a few | | | | Most people fail at this stage. They really need to |
| months, he not only lost weight and reduced his | | | | have self-discipline and supports from their family |
| cholesterol levels but also he looks so much | | | | and friends. One of the reasons why my dad was |
| younger than before. | | | | successful in getting healthier was that Mom and |
| Lots of people successfully lose weight but fail to | | | | all of their kids supported him going through it. |