Being Overweight Research Paper

Not everyone can truly be healthy. Even athletes who works out five times a week and follow a strict diet are still prone to diseases and health issues. Normal people like students who are not likely to work out or watch what they’re eating are more likely to have health issue than those who do. Anyone being healthy or not would like to improve an aspect of their health at a point in their life. Being overweight has been my whole life and I’m realizing that my age is getting to the point where being overweight can cause me my life. Being more aware of death, I am more concerned and motivated to look into my health and dissect the negative habits which causes health issue. Many people all over the world are victims of obesity. I believe that …show more content…
I have never played tennis a single day in my life, but one of my friend who was already in the school’s tennis team recruited me because they are short in players. Going for try outs, I didn’t even know if I will like it or not, but the only thing that came to my mind was losing weight. I picked up the sport quickly and found it to be very rewarding. Not even watching my diet, I was slowly losing weight without knowing. I was having a great time playing tennis and not even worrying about my weight problem. Thinking of it now, that is the key to living a healthy life while losing and maintaining weight. Overall, after two full seasons of tennis, I saw a difference in myself. I was different physically and mentally. I felt happier about myself, and my daily movement are swifter. I lost close to thirty pounds of fat. Even after the sport, I was able to take what I learned and apply it to my life until I got into college. College is a whole new level of maintaining weight, eating healthy and …show more content…
Being overweight is when your body fat exceeds 30% of your body weight. Overweight often happens to people who has eating disorders, don’t read the nutrition facts, don’t follow a calorie per day diet or is not involved in enough physical activity. Having an eating disorder leads to weight gain because food is being eaten for pleasure and not for energy. Most likely if people don’t read nutrition facts, they aren’t following a daily calorie diet either and that causes over eating. There is a difference between daily physical activity and intense exercising. Everyone needs at least three days of intense exercising per week to be in shape, but many people mistaken house chores and grocery shopping as an exercise which is why goals are not met and instead, weight is