Thursday, April 11, 2013

By Ned Wood


Weight loss for men over 40 is very important. It is very difficult to lose fat because it is deposited around the midriff and it has the persistence of super glue. If effective steps are not taken it hangs about like an unwanted guest making one less attractive or even repulsive to the opposite sex. As it repels the girls so it attracts unwelcome things like diabetes and heart disease, leading to an early death.

The dangers of obesity lead to a very rich literature on the subject of what to do about it. Surveying the many books, articles and websites devoted to the subject ones notices that certain remedies get mentioned more often than others. This is useful because it soon becomes apparent that the things that come up in many different contexts must be important.

One group of strategies have in common the submission of the individual to a procedure which removes from him most of the responsibility for the desired end. Surgical procedures are perhaps the most obvious of these. Liposuction and stomach reduction seem to be extremely expensive and invasive solutions and are probably most used when things have got badly out of control.

Men intent on solving their own problem themselves may confront the issue of diet. Knowledge can be obtained from websites and even from labels on food packaging. Even the popular media will advise against junk foods and foods containing fat, sugar and salt. Few people have the excuse of ignorance, especially since it is the most educated who tend to be well fed. The problem is not knowledge but the lack of discipline to break bad habits and eat less.

Exercise may well become a scarce indulgence as men enter middle age laden with domestic and career responsibilities. One day may succeed another in which there seems to be no time for the sort of exercise that one engaged in easily when younger. One day a man may glance down to notice that his toes have disappeared. By this time the situation has already become serious but it may be very difficult to find the necessary time and energy to take corrective exercise.

From such observations it seems apparent that an effective weight loss program requires the adoption of a suitable lifestyle. As far as diet goes one has to convince oneself that a light salad and fish washed down with water is more tasty than french fries and a pork chop smothered in rich sauce. In respect of exercise one has to put time aside for it. In addition strategies such as running up and own stairs at work.

Although diet and exercise are essential aspects of lifestyle change they are not as easy to implement as it might at first seem. Human behavior is seldom completely sensible. People can and do eat themselves to death irrationally. Some people hate exercise.

One peculiarity of human behavior is that when people pay for something they treat it with great respect. Thus, clients who pay a doctor high fees treat him with much more respect than clients who pay no fees at all. Because of this peculiarity it could pay well for a man to pay for an expensive online weight loss for men over forty program. Having paid he for it he may have the will to follow it enthusiastically and perseveringly.




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