Part 1: Connect to Your Values

Maintaining a Healthy Weight is Important

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Maintaining a healthy weight helps you enjoy good health and feel better! Carrying too much or too little weight, relative to your height, puts you at risk for certain weight-related health conditions, including:

•  Heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure

•  Sleep apnea, asthma, and other breathing problems

•  Diabetes and complications from it

•  Gallbladder disease

•  Digestive and GI problems

•  Certain cancers

•  Gout

•  Poor mental health

•  Low sex drive

•  Low energy levels, making activity more difficult

•  Premature aging and death

•  Alzheimer’s, dementia, and other brain diseases

•  Osteoporosis or arthritis on weight-bearing joints, such as the knees and spine

 

Working toward a healthy weight can help you lower your risk for developing the problems listed above. If you already have a health condition, losing weight may help you manage it better or may reduce the need for some medication. Even a small amount of weight loss can improve your health. Losing 5% of your weight may lower your risk of developing heart disease.

 

Achieving a personal goal also helps you feel good about yourself. You may have more energy to enjoy your favorite activities.

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