If someone came up to you and asked you if you wanted to live longer your answer would be of course I do. The way to do this is taking care of your body and that means if you have excessive weight it is unhealthy for your body and you need to get rid of it.

Excessive weight is a burden to your body because it makes your organs work harder, it is a lot of stress on your joints, and it raises your blood pressure and all this cuts down on your life span. You should try to make your body as fit as you can and that doesn't mean it has to be like an athlete's body for everyone it means the best shape that you can get your body into for you.

By losing weight your heart will pump slower and not as fast and your joints won't be hurting as much because the weight of your body won't be pounding down on the joints and with the weight loss your blood pressure will go down. Therefore being in this better shape will add years onto your life and you will enjoy life more with the newer you. So by losing this weight you keeping all your organs healthy you feel better about yourself and you enjoy life to the fullest. Also you will feel like a million bucks because all your organs are going to be in great shape and that is everyone's goal at the end of the day.

Excessive weight is also a burden on your joints and can cause obsessive pain in them. The joints of the body that excessive weight usually will affect are the knees, ankles, and toes. You don't want to go all through life having your legs hurting you and not being able to get up and move. Ten years down the road you want to be able to move around and live your life and not be bed ridden.

Excessive weight will make your blood pressure go up and that is not good because you can die from it. Also with high blood pressure something that is right around the corner is diabetes and once you get that there is little you can do to get rid of it.

Those are some of the consequences that could happen to you if you don't keep your body in shape and put on some excessive weight.