suffer from a reduction in quality of life.

Next time you go down to the gym and you think you are merely working out to keep yourself in shape and looking good make a note to remember that you are doing much more than that. Probably the biggest benefit other than weight loss that you get from working out is a healthy heart and this will pay you huge dividends in the future.

You might be overweight now and pretty mobile, being able to run up stairs and walk around all day but over the long term you will not be able to sustain it. It is OK to be overweight in your twenties from a mobility point of view, but if you are overweight in your fifties and sixties you will have to curtail a lot of your usual activities and suffer from a reduction in quality of life.

Probably the biggest danger from being overweight as you get older is the lack of sexual function that comes along with it. It is not only overweight men who suffer from higher rates of erectile dysfunction as they get older but also overweight women have less satisfying sex lives too.

With drugs like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra available it is possible for men in their sixties, seventies and eighties and more to carry on having satisfying sex. If you on the other hand are overweight in your golden years the chances of you having good sex are massively reduced even with impotence medications.

Living an unhealthy life when you are young will come back to haunt you when you get older and it may at that point be too late to do anything about it. Being overweight can do permanent harm to your body and so you should lose weight immediately rather than doing something when the damage has already been done.

Think of it like this, what is better - food or sex? Remember this next time you think of overeating!