For many of us in our group, losing weight has been a lifetime process...something about THIS time makes us feel like it is going to work...really work. Most of us are losing slowly at this point, unless we are doing it for the first time. But slowly is the way we SHOULD do it. And what we are proving, is that there is not a magic pill, a special surgery, hypnosis, therapy or other things...we are helping each other by doing it the right way...Many of us look at our past with regret...why didn't we figure this out when we were "____" age? Why couldn't we have done this when we were kids? What is different now?
The problems we see in the news regarding obesity is alarming. The part that scares me the most is in regards to our kids. Most likely, obese, underactive kids, become severely obese very unhappy adults. Many of us in our group were active kids...many of our issues happened as adults...and then for some of us, it has been a lifetime.
There is a town in PG County as detailed in the Post today (link below)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/a-town-trains-its-kids-for-a-5k/2012/04/17/gIQAjlN7NT_story.html?wpisrc=nl_health
that has made exercise, as a community, a focus. Our group, has shown, that when we work, as a group for a common goal, exercise, diet, motivation is our focus---we do succeed. It may be slow, it may not always be easy, but it does work.
In the future, could all communities work like this small town in PG County? Aren't we doing that, a little bit at a time in Catonsville, MD? I think so....
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