Thursday, February 28, 2008

Nutrition Guides For Better Health

For the person who's overweight, there never seems to be any
help at hand. Oh sure there are diets and fad diets by the
bowlful, but what kind of support is there really for you if you
want to lose weight? You'd be surprised at how many people feel
this way, and those same people would in turn be surprised by
exactly how much support there really is, if only they can find
it within themselves to reach out and take it. And nutrition
guides are also only one part of this large network of support
that exists.

If you can find yourself able to face your doctor or
nutritionist and ask them for a nutrition guide you'll be able
to get one quite easily. These professionals are here to help
you not hinder you. I must admit though that for me it took
quite a while before I found myself able to go to either of
these people to ask for nutrition guides and guidelines.

The reason for this was a deep rooted dislike of being told
constantly that if I only reduced my weight whatever health
problems I had would disappear. Hearing this every time I went
to see my doctor did me no favors, and I found myself inventing
excuses not to go see my doctor even if I was ill. What was the
use really?

This state of affairs unfortunately continued for some time and
I struggled between eating right and eating what I wanted. It
was hard, and I was slowly but steadily losing the battle. My
self-esteem was shot to pieces and I was almost at the end of my
tether. It was about that time that I decided to change my job
as well, and moved upstate. This turned out to be a good thing
because soon after I managed to sprain my ankle and really had
no choice but to see a doctor.

I was lucky that time and found myself with an understanding
doctor who forbore from mentioning to me yet again that my
weight was at the root of all my problems, and gave me a
nutrition guides leaflet instead. He still didn't say anything,
but smiled and told me in a quiet voice to read it. I was
intrigued enough that I did just that and found myself sitting
in his office almost the next day itself.

What he had given me in the guise of nutrition guides was the
path for me to find my way back to living a normal and balanced
life. I won't try to kid you and tell you that it was all
peaches-and-cream from there on out, but I will say this. If I
hadn't received such invaluable help at that time, I wouldn't
even now be who I am. Nutrition guides are only that, guides.
You have to help yourself first before anyone or any guide can
help you.

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