More and more people today are emphasizing the importance of maintaining good physical health. The number of people signing up for sports clubs, diets, and private health insurance can all be used to demonstrate this. Maintaining a healthy weight is one of the biggest concerns for women in this area because it affects not only how physically healthy they are overall but is also recognized as having a significant impact on mental and emotional health as well as self-perception.

Most people are aware that being overweight or underweight is unhealthy, but health involves much more than just body weight. Health is significantly influenced by factors like your family’s medical history, genetic predispositions, level of alcohol or tobacco use, diet, and exercise. There is therefore no ideal weight that you should be pursuing solely for health reasons.

Therefore, using your weight as a gauge of your health is not particularly helpful. Although there are levels that are unquestionably too high or too low, people will fall into a wide range of healthy weights within these bounds. Many of the concerns people have about their weight have less to do with what is deemed healthy and more to do with media portrayals and glamorous advertisements.

Images and ideals of beauty that are all around us skew our perception of what a healthy body should appear like.

Many media images feature underweight people, sometimes noticeably underweight, and do not serve as a good benchmark for our health.

The ultimate goal of any fitness endeavour shouldn’t be weight loss if your health is truly your top priority. You should make an effort to reduce your cigarette and alcohol intake, eat healthily, exercise moderately, and generally take care of yourself. You don’t require expert-designed eating and exercise plans and scientific advice.

Most likely, you just need to make a few common sense adjustments, like occasionally munching on fruits, walking to work, and seeing your doctor as needed.

Depending on your age and health, different intervals between doctor visits are advised. It is advisable to keep up with these visits and avoid the trap of perpetual procrastination. Consider a health insurance plan that will cover such checkups and only charge you an affordable monthly amount if the cost of doctor visits is a serious problem for you and prevents you from going to appointments.