My doctor said that I ought to lose weight as soon as possible. “Your’e obese,” he said, “and if you hope to keep your cholesterol within acceptable limits, you have no option but to lose weight”.
“You are risking having severe health complications”, said the doctor. “You might not see your kids grow into adults.”
I am just 40 years of age! It is a known fact that the worst age for having heart attacks is around 40 years. What will be my life without the foods that I love? Even if I hate saying this, but my doctor is probably right.
The doctor is probably right. I must not be selfish and I must think about my kids. How can my wife cope all by herself! I am afraid that she cannot. It is already very difficult to take care of four kids as a couple, so how can it be possible for the mother to take care of four kids all by herself!
I have been thinking about this all day and I could hardly sleep at night. I have not discussed this with Jackie my wife as I don’t want her to know about this.
The next morning I felt too tired to go to work. So I thought that it would be better to call work and apply for vacation leave. That same morning, I glued myself in from of my PC and spent some time to look if there are other people who are passing through an experience that is similar to mine. Although I should not be saying this, but I am glad that there are other people who have the same problem as me.
Among the many problems that have many modern countries is the obesity problem.
With the proliferation of junk food establishments and the sedentary kind of lifestyle, this comes at no surprise.
According to research that has been carried out, being obese can cause the following repurcussions:
- Risk of having heart stroke.
- Circulation problems and heart diseases.
- Increased risk of getting type 2 diabetes.
- Being prone to developing certain types of cancer like colon cancer, esophagus cancer and kidney cancer.
- Sleep apnea and other sleep related disorders.
- Risk of developing osteoarthritis, which is a joint disorder that causes the wearing of joint bones and cartridges.
- Women are more likely to have preterm birth and other birth related complications.
- Risk of breast cancer in women.
When I was younger I was not the fat guy that I am today. I did not own a car so I was used to taking long walks.
When I was a young lad, I rarely used to eat two big meals followed by dessert, quite the contrary to what I do today.
Perhaps you can understand now why today I am a much fatter guy that when I was still young.
A few weeks ago, Jackie was going to buy me a weight loss product while we were buying at the supermarket, but I advised her not to do so. My opinion on fat loss supplements was always a negative one as I never though that they were effective.
I Googled the keyword “fat burning supplements” and it came back with more than 1 million results. I must not be the only one looking for such a term.
After a couple of hours of reading I came across some new terms I had never heard before like: hoodia, goji berry and acai berry.
So I thought to investigate these terms further.
I must say I was not expecting this, but I found a huge number of pages related to these products. I was thinking that these were products that have just been released on the market, but I was mistaken!
I found several sites that made these solutions look as if they were the holy grail of weight loss. Obviously I took these articles with some cynicism.
However I was still interested in trying one of these solutions, unless they were too expensive.
For some apparent reason, acai berry supplements kind of interested me more than the other products (perhaps because I love Brazilian women (:)
Most sites that sell acai berry capsules entitle you to try the product for free for a couple of weeks or so. However you still need to pay for the shipping costs. So in any case the worst thing was that I would have wasted a few dollars for the shipping costs. I spent thousands of dollars on fast food meals, so I though that it was worth risking a few dollars for something that can help me with my problem.
Hope to receive my acai berry free trial soon, so as to try it out. I would only say that I hope that my doctor is wrong after all!