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Company tells employees to run miles each month if they want their bonuses
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Being fat is a life choice, not a disease you catch or develop.
If you want your bonus, don’t be fat. Seems like pretty good incentive to me.
That's why we call it a condition though, not a disease. People have a right to make mistakes, right? We can call the consequences of mistakes, conditions. Lung cancer from smoking, a broken arm from mountainbiking, tennis arm from leisure activities. Life choices can lead to conditions, regardless of their perceived healtiness.
Obesity itself is probably too vague and non specific to be usefully called a disease. The basic measurement for obesity, BMI, would classify bodybuilders or strengthen based athletes as obese. Bodybuilders and strong people can often be unhealthy, but it's not quite the same as someone with high body fat.
Even then, people who are obese because of high body fat might have their lives shortened through multiple mechanisms. It could be heart disease that kills them, skeletal problems due to weight, immune issues, digestive issues, practically every organ can be affected. Any or all of these things could occur in a chronically obese person, so even if pathologized, obesity is less useful as a diagnosis.
Excess weight is bad, but you can calculate weight/height without a doctor. Focusing on better nutrition, eating habits, and exercise is the solution, even if you're young and have a high metabolism. That sugar in our food needs to be taxed or regulated, as economic incentives drive obesity rather than people being uniquely stupid or culturally degenerate.
You realize how hard it is to not gain weight in today's society? Unless you get a good dietitian, it's hard AF not to get fatter everyday, especially when the media brainwashes everyone into thinking it's fats and not sugars where the problem lies. And don't get me started into how HFCS is added to practically EVERYTHING, or how the food pyramid itself is BS and not recommended by health professionals nowadays.
It takes a Tibetan monk with steel willforce and a team of doctors not to consume soda or the occasional snack, and to buy the appropriate food consumption choices to avoid adding to your body weight.
And I'm not even counting heart conditions, workplace limitations, life obligations, the increasing unavailability of healthy foods for the working class, the asinine healthcare design, the toxic conditions of tap water (cough Flint water crisis cough), the pretty much nonexistent health programs in schools, and the utterly lethal suburban design which forces people to spend at least an hour a day behind the wheel to do their daily tasks, and, you know, fucking poverty fucking everywhere.
Personal responsibility is just victim blaming by any other name. Prople who are eager to dismiss obesity as a willforce problem seriously need to touch some grass.
A good dietician will limit your fat intake, because that is where most of the calories come from and where cholesterol is. Sugar is also problematic but only in refined form, and in fat people. The theory being that it's fat that limits the response to sugars, I'm oversimplifying but this theory is at the heart of the sugar/fat debate. Dieticians aren't debating this, mostly health gurus and doctors online are. The research into health versus diet is very clear and very much understood. Less processed food, more whole foods, less animal products, more plants. (fruit, grains, legumes, vegetables, nuts and seeds.)
And yes I do agree that the availability of healthy food is very limited and that understanding how or even what a healthy diet is, especially from consuming social media, is hard. The food industry is a multi billion profit industry, there are a lot of conflicting interests. But heart associations, diabetes association, association of dieticians, world health organisations, and many more are screaming from the rooftops. So it's also not impossible to figure it out. But if you're left to the almighty wisdom of 'the market' you're fucked. Yes, it's hard to stay healthy and skinny.
I guess I'm a Tibetan monk with steel will-force and a team of doctors then. These are two of the easiest things to avoid that also gain you the most weight, show some restraint. Just don't buy these things.
Or a middle class white guy who has never had to ensure poverty.
Stop eating.
No one can beat the 2nd law of thermodynamics
Stop eating = lose weight and die quickly
Contniue over eating = develop long term health issues and die early.
Equilibrium exists between these two extremes.
It's different for everyone. Find you balance, and live it. You don't have to be a monk or I have the iron will or a frontiersman to to just think "I know I'm still hungry, but maybe I shouldn't have a 2nd cheeseburger tonight"
OF COURSE IT'S DIFFERENT FOR EVERYONE. That's my fucking point.
My issue is with ignorant people who judge everyone based on oversimplified premises.
Sugary snacks mess up your metabolysm. You stop burning fat. Your blood sugar gets imbalanced, you get highs and lows. And when you hit the lows, you feel exhausted and super hungry. And you have no idea what's messing you up because no matter how much you eat, you still get hungry, so you eat much more than what you ought to because your metabolism is fucked up and your brain gets the wrong signals. You try to cut your fat, but that gets you even more hungry, so you eat more carbs (even diet carbs like oatmeals and such) which then mess your blood sugar even more.
Even if you do exercise, you still end up getting fatter. Drinking diet soda doesn't fix it and gets you even hungrier.
And while you're doing the impossible to cut as much fat as you can, you still get fatter, your mood gets explosive, you can't sleep well, and then people are telling you to eat less and that you're not putting enough effort. Meanwhile your stomach is in unbearable pain because your hunger is out of control.
Also, you know what messes up hunger? Depression. There's just so many factors to take into account.
Anyway, you know how I finally broke that vicious circle (after I got my mental health under control)? I cut my carbs. I quit all sugary snacks (even the small ones). I quit all sodas and concentrated fruit juices. Started to consume more animal fat, against the "common knowledge". Whenever I got hungry, I didn't eat a snack. I just ate normally. Ham, a hotdog, milk, or even an egg. It wasn't easy and I woke up at 4AM in the morning all hungry. It was hell for two weeks. But after those two weeks I got better and my system got the balance it needed.
Boom. Lost 5 lbs in one month. I stopped getting tired. I was more energetic. I got better at the job.
But it took me years, literally years to find out it was the damn snacks (which were small enough to appear harmless) and the sodas with HFCS that were the ones at fault.
All these years of failed trial and error just to find out fats were not the enemy. But suuure, it was me eating two burgers instead of one.
I was NOT eating like a fucking pig. I was NOT supersizing my meals. But sure, armchair dietitians on reddit know what's best for me, right?
It's ignorant people giving unscientific advice who make life a living hell for the rest of us.
"Cut the fats". Yeah, right.
I too have a love/hate relationship with sugar. I want it in my chocolates, NOT MY FUCKING GRANOLA ASSHOLES!!!
As a fat person, I never face that decision (well ok, not never, once or twice a year around the holidays maybe). Most of the time it's more like "should I throw away half of this meal I paid for or finish eating it?" That's a bit harder to do, especially when you were raised to clean your plate or you'd be physically punished. Conditioning is a bitch.
Why is your decision not: “I think I’ll save this for later?” I think your two options are severely flawed. You are going to be hungry before that food goes bad, save that shit for later 😋😋
I do when I can, but often it's not an option, like not going home or anywhere I have access to a refrigerator, or I'm on my motorcycle and no way to carry it...
All I read is excuses, be better than that. Take each day as a new day to begin making better choices and new good habits that work. I only say this because I was there, you got this, you just have to try and in addition to that not make an excuse when you hit a bump in the road. Fuck that, plough through, you’ll be fine. It’s not a temporary change, this is a permanent lifestyle change….or choose to do none of that and stay the way you are.
No I get it, I was over 300lbs last year, I'm now under that and slowly making progress, it just gets on my nerves when people have the attitude of "it's easy, just make the choice to eat less" like it's a one time thing, it's not, it's constant. It's like telling alcoholics "it's easy, just don't drink". I might even argue it's easier to quit drugs, because you can live without. I quit smoking years ago, it was a rough but it gets easier the longer you don't do it. I can't just stop eating cold turkey.
It’s just like smoking, and drinking….you take it step by step day by day. It is easy, people just always have an excuse, you can’t let it win, fuck that.
It's the obese who need to touch grass buddy. It's not that hard to maintain a healthy weight if you put any effort at all. Literally just looking at the calories of what you're consuming will cover it for almost everyone. If you actually exercise on top of that it's easy mode.