Obesity: The thief of success

about how Obesity is a thief , killer and destroyer.

I have been traveling recently and have finally realized that obesity is now officially an epidemic of staggering proportions. There are many causes of obesity. Trauma, stress, over indulgence, unclear job descriptions and expectations, staggering un-delegated authority, ignorance, non-existent capacity building, take home pays that don’t take employee home, poverty and so on to mention just a few.

Obesity starts off as a liar. It usually hides initially when we are overweight. We don’t réalisé that if we don’t nip it in the bud quickly, overweight will become obesity for sure.

Then it starts to lie. “Oh this is how my grandmother was so it is genetic and there is nothing I can do about it. Oh only vain people keep their weight down. They just are so narcissistic. Oh everyone needs a little flesh or else you don’t look good and when sickness comes you have no buffer. I only eat this once in a while so it is okay. (Would you deliberately eat rat poison just because you don’t eat it often) I have to enjoy myself, what is life about if I can’t eat what I want. I am now a certain age and I will look terrible if I don’t have some meat on my bones. It is the natural progression of life. Well at least I don’t have high blood pressure or any of those ailments only a little arthritis. I can still wear girdles and look nice. I can still find my size in readymade clothes so I am not so big.”

The biggest lie is that “there is nothing I can do about it, after all I have to eat”. Meanwhile obesity ensures we continue to do obesity to ourselves. The more we do obesity to ourselves the more obese we get. Doing obesity is just piling on the weight.