Healthy Living,How To Avoid Years Of Health In A Fat Body

One of the more frustrating aspects of weight loss diets is the great chance of weight returning and probably a few more extra pounds after getting off the diet program.

I was looking around on the internet and I saw something that caught my eye. It was the latest data of our current life expectancy as humans from the World Health Organization, along with a history of how that's changed over the years.

The information went back as for as the Neanderthal period (those fellows from the Geico commercials) up to present day people. Those people (The Geico Guys) only lived to be about 20 years on average, as of today's humans can expect about 75 years of life.

Today's people have an average healthy life expectancy of just about 68 years. I am saying here that you can expect about 8 years of your life in poor health. That's 2900+ days of poor health. That's not something we shoud be looking forward to.

I think we shuould be able to do better than 68 years of good health on this planet. And you know what? We can. This number is an average. Like anything else, you don't have to be average if you don't want to be. The average person doesn't exercise properly, if at all.

The average person doesn't know how to make the right foods selections and maintain a healthy diet. The average person doesn't apply themselves mentally and emotionally to maintain relatively stress free living.

The bottom line is that even though some diets are healthier than others, or suppress the appetite better, virtually all diets work the same in the short term. What is clear is adhering to the diet becomes the most important thing when looking at weight loss for the long term.

Lifestyle alteration is the basis here and any thoughts of having permanent weight loss need to be addressed as life long management in order to succeed.

If this sounds like you, the good news is you don't have to be this person any longer. While It's a shame that today's health, fitness, and diet industry is simply confusing more people than it's helping, there are a few people and organizations out there that can provide an effective and efficient approach to breaking past the average healthy life span and living those years full of energy, strength, and vitality.

I get questions from my Fat Burning Furnace readers all the time, after going through the FBF materials, about how they can't believe how little exercise I recommend. And even though I've told them up front that they can let go of the aerobics or traditional cardio, they still have trouble.

And what I tell them is directly related to the subject of life expectancy and just how much time we really have in our lives.

I tell them that having a lean, strong, and healthy body is great. It's one of the most important things we can attain. Period. But, how much time is it worth to you?

That's the question I asked myself over and over when seeking out my own methods and developing the FBF methods.

What we really should be focusing on is how much time and effort is minimally required to get the results we're looking for. Think about that. Not how much, but how much is minimally required. Remember, we've got just 68 healthy years as a starting point...If I valued my time on this planet, this is what I would be searching for.

If it really took all of that crazy nutrition manipulation to burn fat, build muscle, strength, and health, I'm not sure I'd do it. Not for long anyway. I've tried that approach, for years, and if you have you know it's not any fun. And it's just not realistic given the demands our lives place on us in today's world.

But as I've mentioned before, you don't have to worry about that kind of stuff anymore. The principles in my FBF system allow you to approach your genetic potential for a lean, strong, and healthy body in just minutes each week and with very simple lifestyle changes.

I've been using the FBF principles for a while now. I work out twice each week. I even take a week off entirely every few weeks or so. I don't count calories. I don't deprive myself of the foods I love. If it's my daughter's birthday, I eat a piece of cake. I just work the FBF principles and continue to stay in great shape day after day, week after week, year after year.

I work out so little because of the way the workouts are performed and created, and I eat with such flexibility because I stick with the FBF lifestyle, which gives you the power of flexibility and variation that is lacking in most programs.

What I'm saying is that I've discovered what is minimally required to give me the health and body that I wanted. And many of my FBF students are doing it as well. Sure I could add another day a week to my workouts, but at this point it would actually be detrimental to my results. I could also start messing with my diet in all sorts of crazy ways, but that would just make my body angry and cause me unneeded stress.

So, I ask you, are you trying to find what's minimally required to get you the results you want? If you truly value your time and the other worthy pursuits in your life, I'm suggesting that this is exactly what you should be doing. If you don't, you may just end up being an average 67 year old with 8 years of poor health to look forward to.

Author: William McRand
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