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Weight Loss … It’s Coming.
It just might take till you’re old
If you did nothing you will lose weight as you age. A comforting thought … perhaps. You need to lose weight if you are overweight. Well duh! But it seems to me that everyone says they need to lose weight whether they do or not.
The situation, in our countries, is that we all have increasing rates of obesity, not just being overweight. While it seems that we tend to eat more fast food than homemade food in normal times, perhaps this pandemic may help us in ways we never thought of before.
What makes us eat so much or go out for meals so often. There are many reasons this occurs. I think one, in particular, is that when we have children and we have two income parents. Trying to get dinner on the table, get homework done, a few loads of laundry completed, and the question of whether to pick up dinner is easy.
As we age that question slowly becomes mute but we are in a habit and as everybody knows, habits are hard to break.
We can try to eat better but we can’t change everything overnight. Start with something easy. Can you have a small salad when you finish dinner? That is the way Italians do it and it signals the end of dinner. FYI … This doesn’t mean drowning it with dressing. If that is too hard for every night, try every other night for…
