The only person who can make you lose weight is YOU!

Obesity is a hot topic and more people are obese than they realise because we have become so used to seeing people being bigger than they’ve ever been. You only need to watch some TV footage of the 70’s to realise that everyone on the screen is slim! These days most people are carrying at least a stone, if not three or four, of excess weight and we are just getting used to it.

Being overweight isn’t just about how we look. Being overweight has a profound effect on our health. We are aware of the risks of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer but we all think these won’t happen to us. It is impossible to know in your everyday lives whether you have high cholesterol or high blood pressure. We only find out if we have them if we go to the Doctor and our GP checks it. But the other, often ignored, effect is to our joints. When we’re young we don’t even consider aching limbs when we get older - bad knees, bad hips, bad ankles. These are conditions that are considered part of getting older and yet if we were slim, most of these problems experienced in later life would disappear. Of course, we can suffer injuries from sport, but even those damages to our body can be helped by keeping our weight down and staying active and fit, not to mention the added bonus of the likely prevention of the life-threatening risks of heart disease etc.

Our body is like a savings account at the Building Society. The greater the investment in healthy eating and keeping fit , the greater the dividend. Invest in reducing your weight and in becoming fitter, even if it is just walking for 20 minutes a day.

Take a look at our magazine, Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness. The latest issue is just out and it features a lovely guy called Kevin Austin. Kevin has lost 9 stone and now weighs 13st 6lbs instead of 22st 6lbs.
While we were driving to M & S to buy the clothes for his photo shoot, Kevin, who works in a care home for young people, told me how he used to wear a pair of jogging bottom trousers and had just one smock-type shirt. Every night he would wash it and hang it out to dry ready for the next day. Nothing else fitted him. His knees were hurting so much it made walking difficult.But Kevin realised that his condition was within his control and he decided to take action and enrolled at one of our classes. Just look at the photos of Kevin in our magazine as he is today to realise that losing weight is an amazing investment into your future.

If you have any problems finding our magazine, call us on 01509 620444.