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What Excess Weight Can Bring Into Your Life

2016-05-31  |  Jimmy Sévigny, B.Sc. in Physical Activity
What Excess Weight Can Bring Into Your Life

For the purpose of this article, I ask you to use your imagination. Picture yourself wearing a cloak that you’ve had on for years—a cloak with magical powers. Here are just a few of its effects:

1. The Power of Premature Heart Aging

Since you started wearing it, walking and completing everyday tasks have become so difficult that your heart has no choice but to work at full capacity all the time.

2. The Power to Trigger Sudden Illness

After just a few years, this cloak starts handing out “gifts” like type II diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity.

3. The Power of Reduced Mobility

From the moment you put it on, moving around began to feel harder. You find yourself needing frequent breaks during basic physical efforts—like going up the stairs.

4. The Power to Drain Energy and Vitality

Ever since you slipped it on, your food choices have declined, and without quite knowing why, your energy levels have plummeted. Getting through the day has become harder and harder.

5. The Power to Kill Motivation

As you’ve become aware of all the cloak’s effects, your motivation has dropped. You feel uncomfortable in your own skin, and life seems increasingly bleak.

So far, this probably sounds like fiction, right? But here’s the truth: over half the North American population currently wears this “magical” cloak. It keeps them from aging healthfully, steals their vitality and willpower—yet more and more people are putting it on.

How about you? Are you wearing a cloak that’s stopping you from chasing your dreams?

Now imagine, for a moment, what your life would look like without this curse cloaking you from head to toe. What would you do?

As for me—I used to wear that cloak. I weighed 452 lbs. I can tell you from experience: it is possible to take it off and start a new life. Sure, some people will need to put in more effort than others to remove it, but trust me—it’s absolutely worth it.

Wishing you clarity, a great summer, and happy training.