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What Losing 10 Percent Can Do

Article By: Sandra Gordon Print Email

Striving for your college-days weight or some other magic number on the scale can be daunting. It’s much easier to reach for an incremental goal that promises sizable health benefits: Losing just 10 percent of your current body weight.

“So many projects in life are better managed by breaking them down into small chunks,” says Karen Miller-Kovach, MS, RD, chief scientist at Weight Watchers International. “Weight loss is no different.”

But the body you’ve always wanted isn’t all you’ll get out of accomplishing that one starter goal. Here’s what else you’ll gain by losing 10 percent:
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A Healthier Heart

By losing just 10 percent of your body weight, you can lower your cholesterol and reduce your blood pressure, says G. Ken Goodrick, PhD, psychologist and associate professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. High cholesterol and elevated blood pressure are two major risk factors for heart disease.

Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

If you’re overweight, you’re at increased risk for type 2 diabetes, which means your body can’t make enough, or properly use, insulin, a hormone that helps convert food to usable energy. By losing just 10 percent of your body weight, you’ll improve your body’s ability to use the insulin it makes, possibly preventing the onset of the disease, Miller-Kovach says. If you already have type 2 diabetes, shedding that 10 percent may improve your symptoms and possibly prevent complications, she adds.

More Pep

“Just a 10 percent weight loss increases feelings of vigor and vitality,” says Miller-Kovach. “You’ll feel better and have more energy.”

A Mental Edge

Losing 10 percent can give you the self-confidence and motivation you need to keep going. “Success builds on success,” says Miller-Kovach. But be sure you recognize it. “Losing 10 percent is a milestone in the journey,” says Miller-Kovach. “Once you get there, take the time to congratulate yourself on your efforts.”

Reality Check

After losing 10 percent, you gain a sense of what it will take to lose the rest and reach your final goal weight. “It gives you a context in terms of saying, ‘Am I willing to put in that much more effort to lose even more weight?’” Miller-Kovach says. If the answer is no, that’s okay. “Some people only lose 10 percent and that’s it,” says Goodrick. If that’s you, pat yourself on the back. “Health-wise, a 10-percent weight loss is a great achievement,” Goodrick says.

Howdy all,

Don’t you wish you had one of those buttons that you could push that you see on the commercials that say EASY on it and “”POOOOFFF”"” you would become skinny. I know I wish I could find that button, but just like never being able to fine the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow I know I will never find the EASY button.

When is enough ENOUGH. Yesterday was not a good day for me at all. I ate whatever and didnt think about it till I laid in bed last night. Then the guilt of what I did set in. Why would I do that to myself. Knowing how bad it is for me and that it is KILLING me. For every lb you lose you add time to your life. For every overweight lb on your body you are subtracting time off the calender of life.

I had a heart to heart with myself last night and damn it I want to have a long life with everyone I love. That is not going to happen with the shape I am in now. Do you ever have a heart to heart with yourself and look at the big picture?

Just a simple thanks to everyone for standing by me for the past year. Thru the death in my family and for the scare of having cancer. Never thought I would ever be having surgery to remove a 10 lb cyst and one of my ovaries that the doctors were telling me was just a hernia. You gave me words of encouragement and told me never to give up and thanks to you I didn’t

Now I am back on my weight lost quest and you are still here. You don’t know how much I appreciate everything.

Lets keep on losing!!

OK CHALLENGERS THE THREAD FOR THE CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE IS UP!!!!!!! GOOD LUCK

OK CHALLENGERS THE THREAD FOR THE CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE IS UP!!!!!!! GOOD LUCK

I am starting back up mmy yearly Christmas Challenge August 1st. We weigh in once a month. You choose a weight you would like to see yourself  by Christmas and send it to me with your current weight. We will have our own thread that everyone can post in. If you would like to join email me. We would love to have you!!!

…..And remember Santa is watching…..

As some of you know I got a free seven day pass to a local gym that is just right up the road from where I work. I think this is perfect because I can go everyday when I get off from work. Well I got there to pick up the pass and the manager tells me to take a seat out front and she will be there in a minute.

I STUCK OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everyone there was beatuiful. The longer I sat there I could hve just crawled under the chair I was sitting in and died. I am surpose to start today. I AM SCARED!!!!!!!!! It feels like the first day that your mom drops you off at kindergarden.

People I need some words of encouragment BAD!!!!!!!! Didnt hardly sleep last night thinking about it. It is like my brain is trying to stop me from going. Because right now I can think of a thousand reasons not to go. I know I need to if I want this weight off.

I guess what I am really trying to say is I AM EMBARRASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you thought about how your attitude affects other people. Lots of people come on here already depressed and not liking themselves. Think before you speak!!

Funny thing happened to me while sitting at the doctor’s office this morning. I was first one there and had to drink some stuff before my test and wait an hour before I went back to see the doctor. While I was sitting there a medium size woman came in. She wrote here name in at he window then she looked around the room to where to sit. She saw me and came and sat on my side of the waiting room about a chair down from me.

A few minutes later a skinny lady came in and wrote her name down and looked around the room and saw us sitting on the left side of the room. She went to the right side of the room and sat down. Then the pattern started.

As the hour went on I noticed the same pattern went on as skinny to average size people sat on the right side and medium to large people sat on the left.

The next time you go to a waiting room check out the seating action that is going on in there. You might be surprised!!!!!

I looooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee potato chips, but I cant have them anymore. Every weekend I use to treat myself to a small bag of potato chips. Now I am low carbing it and potato chips are a NO NO.

Well let me tell you what I found. PIG SKINS and they come in Bar B Q flavor. No sugar or carbs in them. So here is my question to you:

Will it be wrong to treat myself to a small bag of those during the weekend?