It Does Not Pay to Be Overweight: The Hidden Costs of Excess Weight

Allowing yourself to grow overweight is not a wise financial choice. First of all, as you are getting bigger, you must continually buy new clothes for every size on the way up until you finally settle into some 3x or 4x or 6x size. You must constantly buy complete new wardrobes - from all the variety of underclothes to all the necessary outer garments. You need new shirts, new pants, new jackets, new coats, new socks - and often even new shoes. When your fingers swell, you also need your rings to be resized, or set aside in favor of new ones. The same old bracelets and necklaces will not fit the same; your entire accessory collection will have to be gone over, picked through, and rejuvenated. Think of the cost of that?! Even the purchase of one such wardrobe collection is immense, let alone, buying almost all of it in several sizes. Don't forget, of course, that your summer wardrobe will not be appropriate in the winter time. Thus, depending on how fast or slow you are gaining weight, you may have to buy an entire year's worth of seasonal outfits in several sizes!

Another economic consideration is the food that you are consuming. As your stomach grows, your appetite grows - it begins to take more and more food to keep you satisfied and happy. Grocery bills will show a gradual increase, but an increase just the same. Over the years - when you are finally size 6x, your grocery bills will not be close to what they were when you started on the outward climb.

The last and most serious financial problem with being overweight is facing up to large scale medical issues. There are many serious medical problems that are caused or aggravated by excess weight. Heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, gall bladder disease, fatty liver disease, cancer, asthma, varicose veins, and hernias are just some of the many serious medical conditions that can be related to being overweight. Many of these problems require extended hospital stays, complicated surgeries and treatments, and expensive prescriptions.