Obesity

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265.   Make your meals small and frequent and never skip breakfast to keep your metabolic fire stoking. Eat 5-6 small meals instead of 2-3 large meals a day. Never go more than 3 hours without eating a meal or a healthy snack. Eat when you feel slightly hungry but before you feel too hungry to keep your metabolism going.

266.   Ignore misleading advertising – Do not pay any heed to aggressive and misleading sponsored messages promoting unhealthy products and junk food in the media. Do not go near the vending machines, in schools and other public places, dispensing high-fat and high sugar snacks and beverages laden with harmful chemical additives.

267.   Get support – A big key in long-term weight control comes from receiving encouragement and support from your family members, colleagues and friends.

268.   Be positive – Above all obese persons should make every effort to develop a positive and cheerful attitude in their thinking and have faith in themselves that they can achieve a healthy body and mind. Learn to let go of negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, hostility and insecurity connected with longstanding issues that can’t be resolved.

269.   Love yourself – Learn to celebrate your own body for what it is and the fitness and health you can achieve. Use measures other than weight to track your progress in reaching your health goals. Realise that today’s media overemphasises extreme thinness which makes people feel bad when they cannot achieve such an unrealistic body size.

 Physical Activity (Exercise)

270.   Do regular exercises – Say good bye to sedentary life. Leading an active life and regular exercise are musts to burn stored fat in the body. Exercise raises the metabolic rate, so calories are used up faster. Exercise before breakfast and an hour or so after dinner is an essential long-term weight management tool and ingredient for a healthy happy life. Any type of moderately intensive exercise for 30-60 minutes a day for 5-6 times a week, like stretching, walking, bicycling, swimming, even dancing will help move lymph, expel toxins, motivate the blood, reduce stress, uplift mood and revitalise the body and mind. Losing weight with diet and without exercise causes you to lose both fat as well as muscle which pushes the metabolic rate down. This means you can gain weight even though you are eating less food.