[quote=“antarcticbeech”]For me if I exercise regularly everything else falls into place. The exercise changes my thinking and changes the foods I choose to buy and eat. Exercise makes me think positively. As a kid I used to hate drinking water but now I find a very primal animal pleasure in it, especially after a run. Like Man, my body needs this stuff.
I like running for it doesn’t require any special equipment or gym membership, just a pair of shoes. Bicycles sometimes need tuning and repairs, swimming requires a pool and a commute - things that demand more time and planning. But to go for a run I just change into shorts and a t-shirt, put my runners on, step outside and go! I can be back in 30 minutes if I wish, if I have “important things to do”. But when I am in the routine of exercising regularly I know that, actually, exercise is the most important thing.
People who do not exercise sometimes ask very stupid questions like, “How do you motivate yourself?” Or they grimace with pain just at the thought of it. Exercise? Good Lord no! I enjoy air-conditioning. And food! End of conversation. But I have the feeling I enjoy my food more, actually, because I eat when animal hungry, completely without guilt, and not because I’m bored or because it is an addiction. There is something very disgusting about sharing a meal with overweight people who overeat, especially if they overorder even beyond their unhealthily large stomach capacities. And something very sad about the perpetually obese making public displays of salad eating, the elephant in the room whispering, Just wait until he gets home. I far prefer how Taiwanese can openly say, “You need to lose weight! It’s not healthy to be so fat!” over this Western politeness.
A few years ago I heard a scientist on the radio talking about a study of obese children. The researchers completely withdrew sugar from the diet of half of the kids and found many of these children spontaneously started exercising. And at the end of the study many of these kids had lost a lot of weight and become far more healthy. I wonder if there have been any follow-up studies.[/quote]
You seem very judgemental. Should
one also be disgusted at ugly people, old people , people who smoke too much, fuck around too much, drink too much, talk too much, fart too much, have a shit taste in clothes., a rudimentary IQ…and so on…?
I don’t like the way people make these gross assumptions and condemnations if fat people., it’s religious in tone.
My kindest and smartest colleague is a very overweight individual. Fat. Really fat. He told me when he was a kid he had days when he are nothing or a jelly sandwich at most. Then he is thrown into a world of junk food.
what does that do to his body and mind? (epigenetic effects are real…addiction and stress are real)
This guy knows VERY well what he eats is crap. But he’s flying around the world constantly busting his ass for his kids, one who of whom is special needs who he treads like a princess, who am I to say don’t eat that crap all the time. He could tell you all about the fats and the molecules and how they interact together in the food. He knows not to eat that…but he does it anyway. Seems like addiction and stress to me.
Sometimes I hear people commenting about him or can see the judgements being made. Yeah he’s fat…yeah he probably eats the wrong food or too much…and then what else do you know about him? Nothing. Do you know this guy could be the hardest working guy in the company? Nah but he’s lazy and slovenly and greedy because he’s fat right? And even if he was those things, that would be okay if he was thin?
PS this guy exercises …doesn’t do anything for him. If he could ditch the car and walk to work he would be better off (like me) , but there is no public transportation in much of the world… He’s working day and night and going on around the world trips regularly. That just messes your body clock up too.