The obesity crisis was in the national news yesterday with a front page on the Daily Express saying that many of the claims made about the risks of being obese were actually false and misleading.
The article can be read on the Daily Express at Obesity Ills Are A 'Myth'
I was sitting, while on a weekend away, reading the article and just trying to work out the benefit of telling the world that the claims are true or untrue. I guarantee within a week or two there will be another article saying that the risks of being overweight are huge and that the obesity timebomb is going to cost the country billions of pounds in taxpayers money to look after everybody who falls ill.
But by confusing everyone with what is, and isn't, healthy really does nobody any good. I listened to the so-called experts for years and yet was more confused on whether I should eat eggs, low carb, no carb, peanuts or prawns, so now I make my own decisions and I am my own expert.
Now, for me, being slim is really important, not because it means I am healthy and not getting diabetes or some other disease, but being slim is important because it allows me to do things like play active sports, run, row and enjoy my hobbies.
I didn't lose weight based on what a health risk it might or might not be, so my advice for this week is listen to yourself and not everyone else, make your own choices, your own decisions and create your own plan and path and walk down it yourself.
We are constantly bombarded by everyone telling us what is best for us but I question how they know more about me than I know about myself.
You are the expert of you, you have lived with yourself for years and therefore you know what is best, now if you decide to trim down then great but if you are happy to stay bigger then great! But make sure you base the decision on your own opinion and not that of the latest 'expert' who will be discredited within a few years anyway.
