Weight loss sells. Weight is what most clients are worried about and what they want to change. Weight is the most visible manifestation of what is out of balance in clients lives. Lose weight and the people at your office are going to notice and give you credit (and possibly be secretly or not so secretly jealous).
On the other hand, if you make changes to your eating behaviors and bring your cholesterol levels down by 30 point,s sans Lipitor, no one can see that. You won't really inspire jealousy. But weight isn't the real problem here.
You are not unhealthy because you weight too much. You weight too much because you are choosing to partake in unhealthy behaviors too often. Change how you behave and your weight will come down as a byproduct.
Eating a little bit less means less strain on your insulin producing pancreas -- diabetes risk goes down.
Eating a little bit less means less means you are eating less of the things that raise your cholesterol levels.
Eating a little bit less means you will have more energy (because you aren't digesting that big amount of food) after dinner so you feel like going for a stroll with your spouse.
Eating less and getting a little bit healthier means you won't have to take meds for cholesterol, blood pressure, and diabetes -- which means you won't have all that medicine gook in your body that it has to clean up and remove. You won't have the side effects of the drugs (that really aren't side effects -- they are actual effects of the drugs, we just don't like them).
And don't even get me started on the stress you will get rid of ......
Being more mindful of your choices opens up your eyes to options. It isn't about being "perfectly healthy" -- that can't be done. It is about looking for opportunities to make small changes and letting those changes add up over time.
You didn't start out overweight. Your current weight is an accumulation of every choice you have made. Why not get that process working for you in a direction you like???
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