Health & Fitness ” I’m Happy in my Body”

Something that we can all control and influence quite easily, but it would however appear that many do not have the required will power and/or desire to seek a healthy way of living, albeit not something I would recommend.

Rationing had not long ended when I was born so I was brought up in an era when food was not so readily available, also alcohol was predominately only consumed in licenced Public Houses which had very limited opening hours.

When I look back there seemed to be far less obese people and the fast majority seemed to be of a reasonable BMI.

I guess this may well have been assisted by the fact that a large percentage of people smoked, therefore suppressing any hunger that occurred due to lack of or availability of food. Fast food was usually limited to a local chippy that opened for about 3 hours a day and twice a week.

While obesity was not an obvious problem there was no great sense of fitness amongst the wider community and once children left school. and if not particularly sport orientated, the likelihood of maintaining a fit body was unlikely, with no fitness centres or clubs to focus your attention.

With no desire to smoke and to live rather longer than my grandparents, I feel this had an influence on my choice to try to keep my weight in check and seek to maintain a reasonable level of fitness while not over indulging, something that I believe everyone should seek to achieve, but many do not attain or even try.

So, I was brought up in a skinny, unfit, and relatively unhealthy world, where life expectancy was not much beyond 3 score years and ten….

If we now fast forward to the present day, every food is available all year around, with a huge array of fast food that can be ordered and be at your door within minutes, with the opportunity to over indulge on demand and at the slightest whim……added to this that alcohol is also now so readily available with a huge array of choice from every supermarket or convenience store.

The extensive and varied types of licensed premises can now also open every hour of every day if they choose with the opportunity to consume alcohol available 24/7.

Not surprising we now have a population where the majority are obese, though most would be reluctant to recognise the fact or admit the amount they eat or drink…….or waste, another subject for another day.

If the waistline has spread a little further than is really good for you then the prospect of entertaining any fitness regime is now also extremely unlikely, the desire or inclination is overwhelmed by the draw from the refrigerator offering so much more and when combined with the access to TV on demand and the call of social media on your phone, it is little wonder the UK has people who are more than comfortable in their body and their way of life….

We now live in a world where people are predominately fat, still unfit, but because of great advances in medicine can now potentially live far longer, but those happy with their lifestyle, may with a following wind, still only get to 3 score years and ten…….but they will no doubt say, it was a great life…..