| Hi Friend,
The time is Saturday, 23rd June 2007, and gambling author Wayne Bailey is sat motionless in his home office swivel chair. To the outside world he looks surprisingly relaxed. His demeanour is calmness personified and doesn’t provide any clues as to what just happened here. The casual observer would never guess he lost a small fortune in the space of five minutes.
Yet that’s what has taken place. Numb with disbelief, family man Wayne stares at the red figure at the top of his computer screen. With a few clicks of a mouse, he has somehow managed to wipe out almost five grand from his savings.
Gone. Vanished. Poof.
This was one gamble that didn’t pay off.
Soon, Wayne will venture down to his kitchen and drink tea with his wife and play with his three-year-old daughter. He doesn’t yet know how he’s going to explain the horrifying occurrences of that morning. Transfixed in terror, he is still struggling with the enormity of what just transpired.
Your Health Gamble
For sure, it’s a frightening tale. But fortunately, very few of us will ever find ourselves trapped in this nightmarish situation…
…or will we?
You see, without ever realising it, we are all busy gambling every day.
Only instead of wagering bets on horses, we are all — each and every one of us — gambling with our lives.
For proof, figures recently published in the UK reveal an obesity epidemic that is spiralling dangerously out of control.
Numbers show two in three adults are now overweight or obese. But more worryingly, a record number of these cases are leading to amputation surgeries.
Official figures published from Public Health England reveal 23 amputations are carried out every single day as a result of diabetes. And if that wasn’t scary enough, many of these surgeries are life-threatening with up to 80% of patients dying within five years of treatment.
Dan Howarth, Diabetes UK’s head of care, said: “The record rates of diabetes-related amputations we’re seeing are being largely fuelled by increasing numbers of people developing diabetes. This is in part linked to the growing number of people living with Type 2 diabetes, which is closely linked to obesity and so, in many cases, can be prevented by maintaining a healthy lifestyle.”
And that’s what I want to draw your attention to. When you choose to ignore healthy lifestyle choices, you enter into a gamble which carries devastating consequences. In short, there is no guarantee you will ever beat the odds.
Unlike author and family man Wayne Bailey in our story, you can’t simply walk away from this type of gamble and rebuild your life. High-risk stakes of such magnitude cannot be recouped later.
This is why a healthy lifestyle — and weight training in particular — are so valuable to you.
Make this your mantra my friend, and you’ll be a true winner.
Until next time,
Squat for Glory!
Lee
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