The best judge of your health is you. Living with obesity is just one aspect of health. You can live with overweight or obesity, and still be healthy. But it is also a fact that the risc for health issues increase with a higher BMI.
Many people who live with obesity, share the experience that the medical profession tend to focus only on their weight when they seek medical care. Others are focused on their own weight, and the idea that if they could only loose weight, everything else would be fine. But many people that live with obesity also have other health issues. The other health issues can be a ground for obesity, or a consequence of obesity, or both.
This picture illustrates four aspects of health, and health issues that are often related to obesity. Take a moment, look at the picture, and think about the questions below the picture. What do you need to do understand what affects your health, so that you can take control?
our overall health status?
Assess your health
What about the four aspects of your health described above?
- How is your mechanical health status?
- Your mental health status?
- Your social health status?
- Your metabolic health status?
Do you have enough knowledge about what affects your health?
Do you have the tools to change your health status if you want to?
What kind of help would you need to improve your health?
Where and how can you find that help?
Answering tha questions could be the start of your own health plan. If you don´t know what to do next, take the assessment you have done and talk to the medical profession about your next steps.