Once the children leave the nest we tend to slow down. They are not around to play with anymore, their friends have gone and we start hibernating. We deserve that of course, the children were fun, but now it's our time. We worked all our lives and now it's time to relax. While growing up you burnt 2000 to 4000 calories a day, and your intake never seemed to be enough to have you fill out.
Of course, we could have just been underachievers in the first place and been fat all our lives with no real hope. Then again it could be because we are big boned, yes that's the answer, we are big boned and are expected to be over weight. Sounds scary! It is hard to believe but if you work with the statistics, you will see that over 50% of us are overweight. Worse yet, some of our children who should weigh 60-90 pounds are now crossing the 120+ pound mark, at only 8-years of age. A tragic state of affairs for anyone in any country.
Now you're saying you have tried starvation diets, weight loss foods, snack bars and drinks and you eat and drink healthy at least for awhile, but still, after all the tears and work, nothing has happened to keep off the weight you did lose. It gets even worse, as we grow older the membranes in our spinal column shrink, so when you were five-foot-eight-inches and prime weight, suddenly you find yourself at five-foot-four inches and worse off than you were before. A good example of that is someone that was in the military at age eighteen, five-foot-seven inches would weigh about 135 for prime weight, by the time that person is forty-five years of age, his or her height will be about five-foot-six inches, and prime weight about 120 pounds!
Basically that makes everyone in any country overweight by the time they are 40 - 45 years of age. Now take in consideration the children have left the nest, your activity level drops 60%, and at another 40% to the fat saturated genetic hormones that are now injected into your food, and you have one big fat mess on your hands.
None of us these days can escape it. All the weight loss programs in the world cannot keep us at prime weight and there is no perfect solution. Many even contradict each other on calorie intake and what is good for you. This is because the program was made by the person that made the program, it will only work for his or her body type. That is why you see hundreds of people saying it worked for them, and you can see it does, but for thousands of others it does not change a thing.
Now let's run through some of the program basics that would make up a better life for each of us:
- Deeper & much more restorative sleep - Greatly increased energy & stamina levels - Dramatically clearer thought, mental focus & alertness - Increased & much more efficient immune system - Much faster recovery and healing time from illness, wounds, etc - Energy to burn and accomplish tasks easier