The importance of a healthy weight

Why is it important to be within a healthy weight range?

It’s crucial for wellbeing to be a healthy weight. Then to be able to maintain that weight, that can be the hardest part. Keeping it within the healthy weight chart boundaries. We then age better with less likelihood of chronic illness, we look better and we feel better if our weight is healthy.

Some of us do suit a bit of weight. But I’m not talking about how a person looks, my concern is about how it has an impact on your longevity and overall wellbeing. Having more weight on our bodies can raise our cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure. It can make us prone to chronic disease and can make us look much older than our years. As we age, it’s harder to lose and maintain weight. But it can be done. It takes consistency and patience.

We don’t have to count calories or starve ourselves to achieve this.

A wholefood plant based diet is a great way to lose weight and for slowing down ageing. Avoiding processed and junk food is the best thing you can do for your health and weight.

Making a few simple changes to your diet to begin with can have a huge impact:

Choose whole grain over white pasta, bread and rice

Fry with lemon juice instead of oil

Swap crisps for raw seeds and nuts

What else can I do?

Move! While you could be doing exercise daily in some form for a small part of the day you can wipe out any benefits from the workout if you’re sitting on your bum all day. What if you work from home? Get up at least every hour and jog on the spot for 5 min.

Exercise, will hugely help you to lose and mange weight loss but once you start and make it a habit, you might actually find that you enjoy it. To move is to live, and moving can help your life become a much longer, healthier life. Combine this with a wholefood plant based diet and you can’t go far wrong.

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