The Real Cost of Tak­ing the Easy Way (Guest Post)

The fol­low­ing is a guest post from Casey Scott.

Some­times it may seem too hard to start a fit­ness reg­i­men. Per­haps you, or some­one in your fam­ily, has let things slide for too long. You’re not sure how you got here, but you know you have to make a change — you just don’t know how. It seems too hard. You just can’t imag­ine run­ning, or doing any other phys­i­cal activ­ity for that mat­ter. There has to be an eas­ier way, right? Wrong. You can do it. Just start slow and take it one step at a time.

The Real Costs of Opt­ing For The Eas­ier way

Lipo­suc­tion may sound like an easy way to trim down, but do the risks and rewards of lipo­suc­tion out­weigh the hard work of main­tain­ing a healthy diet?

Today’s soci­ety sends the mes­sage that results must hap­pen imme­di­ately. This mes­sage is con­veyed in many health and fit­ness prod­ucts such as quick fix diet pills being an easy solu­tion to weight loss. With lip­suc­tion being the quick­est short­cut to weight loss, it’s easy to miss the pit­falls that come with tak­ing the easy way out.

The real cost of lipo­suc­tion is greater than just the mon­e­tary value. Try­ing to take a short­cut such as lipo­suc­tion causes you to miss key steps with health and fit­ness such as learn­ing exer­cise rou­tines, adapt­ing to a healthy diet, and under­stand­ing the work ethic of main­tain­ing a healthy lifestyle. For exam­ple, the mon­e­tary cost of thigh lipo­suc­tion ranges from $2,000 to $5,000 for the surgery to be per­formed. But the real thigh lip­suc­tion cost is in future mis­takes due to miss­ing out on the key steps of main­tain­ing the weight loss you’ve achieved. If old habits resur­face after lipo­suc­tion, the weight will return and may increase to an even greater scale from stress.

Lipo cost has another neg­a­tive value besides form­ing habits. Will you be able to look at your­self in the mir­ror and be happy that you earned it? Is the exam­ple you set for your chil­dren and peers the right one to fol­low? Exer­cis­ing reg­u­larly and main­tain­ing a healthy diet cre­ates con­fi­dence and self-​​appreciation of work­ing hard and accom­plish­ing a goal.

Results from main­tain­ing a healthy diet and con­sis­tently exer­cis­ing will take a long time to appear. How­ever, the habits learned from eat­ing healthy and exer­cis­ing cor­rectly are invalu­able. Learn­ing how to avoid meals full of sugar such as pan­cakes and syrup is crit­i­cal. Healthy sub­sti­tutes such as eggs, oat­meal, and bananas can only be learned if healthy eat­ing is prac­ticed. The habit of putting in the time to exer­cise through­out the week can only be cre­ated if it is prac­ticed. These habits will never be learned if you take the easy way out.

When healthy new habits are formed, it becomes eas­ier to main­tain a healthy lifestyle. Short­cuts will never be the answer to weight loss. Out of all the lipo­suc­tion risks, the biggest risks are miss­ing out on key habits, assum­ing short­cuts are the answer, and miss­ing out on cre­at­ing the con­fi­dence that you can achieve any goal.

Just take it one step at a time.