OK, you're overweight. Weight loss is important, if you don't lose weight your life span will be drastically reduced, you'll be more prone to diabetes, high cholesterol and blood pressure, heart disease, stroke etc.
You will have heard this stuff many times from well meaning friends or your doctor, but just when is the right time to lose weight?
There is no magic formula "right time". This is an individual process that only you can know. You have to decide when the right is for you. However although you may well at some stage think "that's it, I'm fed up with carting all this lard around, I'm losing weight" you also need to bear in mind that timing is important. It can make or break your weightloss plan.
The best time to start your plan is when you feel that you're overweight. However if you have become morbidly obese then it's very likely that only surgical intervention will help. So you can see that timing is very important as you really don't want to let it get to that stage.
A well known fitness coach was friends with a man who was excessively overweight, suffering from sleep apnea and feeling dizzy and sleepy most of the time. Although it was obviously the weight causing these problems, the man never asked his friend the fitness coach for any help in the way of weightloss advice.
That is until he started to realise that people were no longer inviting him to social events, and pretty much ignoring him. Finally realising that his weight was the problem he asked the fitness coach to help him. A year later he has lost the excessive weight, sleeps properly, is more active, with an enviable social life.
The point here is that it was the right time for him to do something about it. The trigger will be different for everyone. Why do you want to lose weight? Can you not stand the sight of your belly any more? Do you think you've become lazy? Are you being passed over for promotion at work? Is your doctor nagging at you to lose weight?
Whatever the reason, when YOU decide that it's time to get rid of that extra luggage then take action, and you WILL succeed!
