{"id":56404,"date":"2021-01-10T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56404"},"modified":"2021-01-10T17:48:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T22:48:02","slug":"how-to-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56404","title":{"rendered":"How To Lose Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"list-articles\">\n<div class=\"list__body\">\n<article class=\"article \">\n<div class=\"article__image\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-blog_thumb size-blog_thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-249x208.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-249x208.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-150x126.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-768x643.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-179x150.jpg 179w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-495x414.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-275x230.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-269x225.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-134x112.jpg 134w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-128x107.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-90x75.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-100x85.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-70x59.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-34x28.jpg 34w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-93x78.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-172x144.jpg 172w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915-600x502.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/losing-weight-89698915.jpg 1000w\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"body__media-actions\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/how-to-lose-weight-2\/\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\">How To Lose Weight<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__group\">\n<p><strong>Health is the best investment you can make in 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"post__entry\">\n<p>If you\u2019re like most of the people around the world who had their lives rocked by the COVID pandemic, staying healthy in 2021 is likely one of your resolutions for the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>And if so, \u2018losing weight\u2019 is probably on your list.<\/p>\n<p>Most of us carry more inches around the middle than we\u2019d ideally like and worry about the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakprosperity.com\/the-rising-threats-to-our-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0long-term health risks that can come with being overweight<\/a>. And with COVID-19, excess weight is a co-morbidity that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/data\/obesity-and-covid-19.html#:~:text=Adults%20with%20excess%20weight%20are,to%20a%20COVID%2D19%20infection.\">can dangerously worsen outcomes<\/a>\u00a0for those infected.<\/p>\n<p>Yet most New Year\u2019s weight loss attempts meet with failure, usually after only a few weeks. The truth is: dropping unwanted pounds and keeping them off is\u00a0<em>hard<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>BUT\u2026.it\u2019s doable. In fact, the pathway to achieve a healthy bodyweight is surprisingly straightforward. It just requires disciplined commitment. Weight loss programs overwhelmingly fail because of psychological reasons or misinformation. If you pick a program based on good science \u2014 and keep your mind right while pursuing it \u2014 positive results are inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>In this article, which builds on previous advice I\u2019ve written on the topic,\u00a0 I\u2019m going to recount my own experience (with evidence for you to judge) with finally losing the pounds that had for years stubbornly refused to leave my middle. The keys to my success weren\u2019t complicated nor expensive. And I firmly believe that anyone, regardless of age or situation, can deploy them to similar results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Believe Me?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those wondering whether they should believe me, take a look at the Before and After pictures below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/media.peakprosperity.com\/files\/users\/u14865\/adam-2002-2a.jpg\" width=\"324\" height=\"350\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/media.peakprosperity.com\/images\/FullSizeRender-adam2.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You should listen to me because I\u2019ve taken this journey.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s me in both pictures. In my late 30s on the left and my late 40s on the right.<\/p>\n<p>I know what it\u2019s like to be far too overweight and health-challenged.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Lose Weight Health is the best investment you can make in 2021 If you\u2019re like most of the people around the world who had their lives rocked by the COVID pandemic, staying healthy in 2021 is likely one of your resolutions for the coming year. And if so, \u2018losing weight\u2019 is probably on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9860,395,582,2218,8969,30821],"class_list":["post-56404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-adam-taggart","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-peak-prosperity","tag-personal-health","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56405,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56404\/revisions\/56405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}