the good weight is muscle weight, plain and simple
I see people on all sides of the spectrum, young and old, underweight and deathly, morbidly obese
the people who hold together the longest and still remain a youthful vigor are the people who have kept themselves in a moderate to well shape and eat right, and have genetics prone to prolonged disposition
one of these you can control, the other you can't
I've treated 75 year old women that could have told me they were 50 and i'd have believed them. Men who go on to be late 60's early 70's and are still stocky and built like a horse from keeping themselves in shape, and they still look the same as well. It keeps your skin tighter, your muscles deteriorate at a much slower rate due to the bulk itself. Your bones don't ache from carrying around excess adipose everywhere.
Even people who are slightly overweight can still fight against it, in their own way. yes, some genetic possibilities may make working out hard, difficult, or painful, but there are many ways to lose weight. People who are chunky ride it through their young life because it doesn't get any worse, your metabolism is still riding hard until you're at least mid 30's, and then it drops, and then you just gain weight faster and faster. People who are morbidly obese and can't walk without help cannot likely lose that weight, it's too late for them to really huff themselves into shape. It's possible for people around 350-400 to really, REALLY pull through, but those are success stories of will alone rather than some miracle fix.
This is something I feel so strongly about because I see these things in action, and i've literally watched obesity kill people. Just last week we had to take 2 units to the hospital just to transport someone to a rehabilitation hospital. He'd passed out last week and didn't wake up, turns out he was having a heart attack that almost went undiagnosed. The man was 650lb, and had to have a special tube through a tracheotomy, one built long enough for him, and now breathes through that on a ventilator. He will never recover, and he will eventually die from complications. There is no hope for that man to lose any of that weight. He had bed sores and MRSA from just laying around for so long. He looked like he was knocking on death's door. He was 37.
People who are overweight just slide into a decline of health later in life. The people who are always the hardest on are the heaviest. Sure, skinny people have emergencies too, but never to the numerous amounts of someone who is obese, and often never the same kind of emergencies that they have. Heart conditions, diabetes, a general unpleasant life. People who weigh too much don't ever seem happy to me. They're burdened with themselves and don't feel they can change it.
Being in shape is a force of will. You owe it to yourself to keep yourself in a prime shape so that later in life you are rewarded with a body that doesn't turn and betray you with age. I hope to be sliding into 70 and still be in shape, if my heart condition lets me make it there. I've seen the difference and i'd be on the cusp of starting a religion of fitness if people could see what i've seen through my eyes. Working out is hard but once you start getting in shape and losing fat, it's as easy and extremely enjoyable. I love going to the gym, it's a great hobby to weightlift and work out now. Don't let your dreams be dreams.
Yesterday you said tomorrow.
Just
DO IT
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