
Take for healthy activities and "slimming": walk, to emphasize very healthy foods, read nutrition and advice on "good living", massages, showers, bathrooms....
High Blood Pressure: Everyone with high blood pressure needs to be exercising. It is the easiest way to bring your blood pressure readings under control. Sometimes blood pressure medications can be stopped if a regular exercise program is followed.
So then, you have checked for pure sugar, have you missed anything? Possibly! those cheeky devils in food production land have more sugars up their sleeve! Basically, anything ending with ose is a form of carbohydrate/sugar. So once you get past the sugar, you may see fructose or lactose for example as well.
People don't like to be called fat. There is a definite stigma attached to being called fat. Somehow we have learned as a society that we should remove the label "fat" from our day to day vocabulary. We have been trained to know that it is OK to be called "obese" but not to be called "fat". But does this ultimately help us to lose weight, or does it in fact provide a mental barrier to weight loss?
The reason most dieters give up is because they expect faster results, and when the scale only shows a loss of a pound or two per week, they become discouraged and quit. Studies show that a person is much more likely to remain motivated, keep the pounds off, and succeed in losing some actual fat over the long-haul if they see a sizable weight reduction early on.
What I mean is that the word obese or obesity conjures up the concept of a medical condition, one which you cannot control but rather you are subjected to; it follows that the word obesity implies that it's not your fault, and that you can do nothing about your excess weight. The obesity label can in fact make you feel even more out of control of your eating habits than you were before, thereby making you feel that you just cannot lose weight, that you haven't got the power to lose weight. You feel helpless.
My story was that I had big genes,( as well as big jeans!) My mom's side of the family are bigger people and they are plagued with diabetes. They are the nicest people in the world. I couldn't ask for a nicer family who are very successful in their individual lives. I didn't want to be like them though. I surely did not want to be plagued with diabetes. I wanted to be slim and healthy, not fat and frustrated. To climb the stairs without being out of breath, for heaven's sake! Then one day, my cousin told me that just because we have fat a gene doesn't mean we have to be fat. That changed everything for me. I jumped away from my story. My victim attitude was now deleted. It was time to get to work.