Answer to why I want to lose weight. (2 1/2 weeks after start of diet.)
Simply changing my diet and trying to lose weight working out i notice I’m willing to spend time with my friends go to the mall or just outside in general instead of staying in the house all day. I love to get up in the mourning and just do something (it’s only be 2 1/2 weeks) and I just feel better about myself with no real change in weight just yet. But my main reason is because I i’m going to be married in sept. My soon to be wife has a life expectancy of 80 years being a white healthy female (i believe these are the correct stats) Being a black male I have a life expectancy of 70 years. Add in that i’m obese and chop up to 20 years off of that time. that puts me @ 60 years add in that i’m a smoker and then you have to cut another 10 years from that. Now my life expectancy is 50 years old. Being that I turned 25 last week I guess you could say I hit my mid life crisis mode and I want to live for my soon to be wife my mother and my kids when/if I have any. I could not imagine having kids in 5 years and know that it’s easily possible that I would not live to see them turn 20 years old because of decisions i’ve made in my life. I understand that anything can happen and I could be gone today because of an accident or anything at all. But because I love food and cigarettes? It’s not fair to me and it’s not fair to my family. I want to live!
March 31, 2009 at 9:15 am
You deserve to live. And your making a great choice to add quality to your life. Your future wife and kids derserve that.