A New Rationale For Weight Loss

Why should we shed some weight? After all, we probably feel comfortable with it. Or do we? Excess weight has a dirty way of sneaking up on us.

For every pound of fat, something in the order of one mile of blood vessels is required to oxygenate and remove waste products. So what? Well, more blood vessels also represent more blood volume and more work for the heart, which can lead to increased blood pressure. So fat loss is important.

The extra weight is also causing joints to labor harder, starting from the feet, causing more pressure on the arches of the feet, and if like 90% of the population you exhibit pronation (foot rolling inwards) or supination (foot rolling outwards) this will cause you to pronate/supinate even more, with long term foot deformation. With either condition it places excessive strain on the knee joint and the surrounding holding ligaments resulting in progressive deterioration and localized knee pain. The resulting abnormal torque on the knees will magnify itself into the head of the femur which attaches to the pelvis and will cause a pelvic twist thus putting extra stress to the low back, again resulting in pain, either local or referred back down the leg, sometimes as far as the foot.

Your health care professional is advising you to lose weight, as are your family and friends. Everyone is recommending exercise. But even walking hurts the feet, or the knees, or the lower back.

You try diet after diet. All leave you feeling hungry, dissatisfied and downright grumpy. As it is you feel you already eat less than your skinny friends, or in your mind, like a bird (and you probably do!). Actually, new research has indicated that most overweight people do, in fact, eat less than their skinny friends. So why are they overweight? Food is not the enemy. The enemy is our personal metabolism which is controlled to a large degree by our hormonal output which is influenced by our prior eating habits.

If we took 100 people and measured their individual metabolisms, we would probably find close to 100 different readings.

What works for one in the dieting world, will not work for the other 99. There are, surprisingly, fat loss programs out there that are state of the art in terms of new thinking and concepts that address this aspect of weight loss.

Still, unless you are physically pain free or relatively so, you will not be able to do the exercises that most, if not all, diet plans base their actual weight loss on to live up to their promises.

And if you are not mobile enough to exercise, a good rule of thumb would be to expect less than half the promised weight loss in the scheduled time frame. Once, however, the weight is down and you can start exercising, you will see a big increase in positive overall health.

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