Why Weight?

Over the past 20 years we have watched the focus on “weight loss” become a national obsession in the United States. Yet it seems the thinner we are told to be, the larger a good portion of our society has become. It looks like many people have become very discouraged, or even depressed by the amount of emphasis on what the scale says. As a personal fitness trainer, I wonder how we became so exclusively focused on a person’s weight as the primary way of evaluating health. Of course it is important to be a size that makes it easier to move around, but many other aspects of wellness are also important to enjoying a high quality of life. Here Read the Rest…