Are You Caught in the Vicious Cycle of Overeating and Weight Gain?
We are a nation of obese people with an estimated 65% of us considered overweight or obese. Carrying more than 30 pounds of excess weight is considered obese. Forty or more extra pounds put you in the category of extremely obese.
In 2004, the Center for Disease Control declared obesity as the number one health threat facing Americans, and it kills nearly 400,000 people every year. While cancer deaths are declining, obesity continues to rise and it’s foreseeable that it will eventually overtake cancer in the number of annual deaths. Scary thought isn’t it?
Most of us, as evidenced by the numbers above, are simply eating more than our bodies can use. The body’s reaction to this daily surplus is to store the extra for later use. The problem comes when ‘later’ the body is not asked to use it. Instead we feed it even more. And the body takes the extra and stores it away. Still we don’t use it. And the vicious cycle of weight gain begins.
Our tendency to eat with our eyes also adds to the over-eating problem and restaurants know this. Did you know in the 18th century a dinner plate was 7-91/2 inches in diameter and today many buffet plates are 12 inches? If you fill a plate that size (and most of us do), there’s enough food on it to feed two, possibly three people!
Food has become the focus of nearly everything we do, everywhere we go and much of what we think and talk about. We don’t celebrate a single holiday that food is not a major focus. Most of us don’t sit through a two-hour movie at the theater without food to munch on. We eat at weddings and at funerals. We eat at family reunions and parties with friends. We eat at ballgames, street fairs, rodeos, theme parks, and even while shopping! (I remember when there was no such thing as a ‘food court’ in a mall.)
It’s no wonder so many Americans suffer from overeating and the resulting weight gain. Food is everywhere, we’re constantly confronted with it, and it’s been made available to us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And it’s so easy to overeat when you’re hungry.
Adding to our ever-expanding waistlines is the food we eat when we’re not hungry. Millions eat for completely different reasons, including boredom, depression, happiness, anger, loneliness, stress, frustration, sadness; some people tie food to nearly every emotion they have. Overeating becomes a habit, and we all know how hard habits can be to break.
The good news is they can be broken, and the solution may be easier than you think. You’ll not only stop the overeating/weight gain cycle, but take off the pounds you’ve accumulated because of it.
If you’re fed up with overeating, but finding it difficult to change, you’ll want to check out my program called Weight Loss Breeze that can help you break that habit for good. Almost effortlessly. And you have my guarantee that you’ll never overeat again.