Over the coming weeks I will be posting on some of the tangible and intangible benefits of losing weight. These will be based mostly on what I have witnessed and experienced during my own transformation.

Benefit # 1

Improved Self Confidence

As an overweight guy I was always embarrassed about the way I looked. Sure I’d make light of it and crack a few jokes about my gut, ” I have washboard abs, there’s just a load of laundry on them right now” or “I don’t have a six pack I have a keg“ Everyone would get a good laugh and I would use it as an excuse to eat whatever I wanted, which almost felt like It was expected of me.

I would also do the little things that all self concise overweight people do. Wear baggy clothes, constantly pull at my shirt so that it didn’t cling to my gut for all to see, avoid eye contact with people and I even made fun of other overweight people in an attempt to take the attention way from myself.

Now that I’m no longer overweight I have changed all that behavior. Most noticeably lately has been the eye contact. It’s an amazing thing to look right into another person’s eyes and not worry about weather or not they think you’re fat.

I know that I work hard, watch my diet, exercise regularly and have taken control of my health. I have already proved to myself that I’m worthy and deserve a better body, a better lifestyle and a better image of how I should act.

Weight loss and self confidence go hand in hand. As your weight goes down your confidence goes up. You being to realize that you are capable of more than anyone has given you credit for.

You may start out wanting to lose weight in order to prove something to someone else. But in the end all that matters is that you prove to yourself that you can do it. No ones opinion of you is as important as your own.  

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