Weight Management in your Personal Fitness Training Solution

A person is considered overweight if they weigh from one to twenty percent above normal weight as calculated by the body mass index.  This is not a concern for people that participate in bodybuilding and may exceed the normal weight due to large amounts of muscle.  The problems arise when the condition results from excessive storage of fat in the body.  This is especially true of obesity, defined as a weight more than 20% above what is considered normal.

In a preliminary release of 2005 data the National Center of Health Statistics is reporting that the incidence of obesity among adults age 20 years and over raised from surprising 19.4% of the total population in 1997 to over one quarter of America’s inhabitants a staggering 25.6% some 76 million people by mid 2005. The percentage for obesity was even higher for Hispanic women (31.8%) and highest among black women (35.8%).

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the percentage of young people who are overweight has more than tripled in the last 25 years.  This is a concern for the CDC because of the many diseases and health conditions are linked to being overweight or obese.

Marion Nestle, in her book Food Politics, blames the food industry for its influence on our Nation’s nutrition and health.  She writes "Marketers will tell you that advertising doesn't sell food products and that if it did they'd be really rich," Nestle said. "Well, they do know how to sell products, and they are rich."

Giant servings such as a 64-ounce container of soft drink sold at the movies are loaded with 1,200 calories each.  This is roughly two thirds of the amount of calories that is needed per person per day. Larger containers just hold more calories and calories that are note used as energy are stored by the body. 

Weight Loss

As in the journey of a 1,000 miles, weight loss, too begins with the first step.  Success at anything in life is achieved   with hard work and a vision and passion for the thing you wish to attain but it starts simply with the setting of goals. 

You must develop a safe and realistic approach to your weight loss plan so that as time passes you will not be met with frustration but instead satisfaction as friends start to tell you how great you look or you see if for yourself in the once dreaded mirror!

Weight management in the form of weight loss requires a change in lifestyle: simple adjustments to your daily routine or a total transformation in your way of life similar to the larva’s metamorphosis into the beautiful and colorful butterfly.

Simple put this journey of change will at first be hard and at some times extremely difficult but like anything we practice over and over again it will rapidly become part of are existence. With that said, lets begin!

• Diet
• Aerobics