Yes, absolutely. Easy eating and sedentary lifestyles are considered "the way forward." You're thought less of if you don't have a job that requires you to sit at a desk all day. If you're a mechanic or an electrician, you're low class or less intelligent, even though, let's be frank, that is an INCREDIBLY complicated job sometimes. I know an electrician who blew my mind with all the math and physics he's learned in the course of trying to be better at his job.
But because you're not sitting in a pressed shirt, it's looked down on.
As to your do-people-really-come-home-with-donuts question, yes, they do. They really do that. And yes, there are a lot of people who eat fast food several times a week -- for some people, every single day. And then they go on to say they can't lose weight. Hm...
Yeah, the extra 20 is really easy to do, and that I completely understand. Hell, my dad wound up with the extra 20 just from feeding me, basically. We ate high quality stuff, but I was a teenager who fenced pretty hard and had a metabolism like a rabbit and burned through food like it was going out of style. He tended to just eat whatever he'd made me in the same quantity. My dad had a pretty good metabolism for a middle-aged man, but certainly not as fast as mine, and it put a couple pounds on him. As soon as I moved out, it melted off -- he started eating according to his own need for food, rather than mine. He was also a bit more active, now that his daily life wasn't as home-centered.
And I've had friends who've put on the extra 20 after getting their first desk job and woke up and gone, "Time to go to the gym." Or maybe their metabolism just dove after they came out of their teens, and they have to bring down their consumption or ramp up their exercise.
It's super easy to do that in a society where sometimes we're
required to be sedentary for much of the day and food is over-abundant for many of us.
But as you say, we have a
degree of obesity in America that you don't find in too many other places. It just gets out of control. I live in the fittest city in the US, and I see people who are on the edge of mobility almost every day. How does this happen?
I understand the extra 20, and people who wake up and go, "Whoa, I put on some weight," and then go get themselves a diet plan and a gym card. I don't understand how people don't say that to themselves after putting on an extra 200, or 300, or 400. I've gotten out of shape lately for a number of reasons, some of which were a bit outside my control, and even though I'm not gaining weight (I still seem to have a redonkulous metabolism), I did physically feel bad, and eventually I just had to get off my ass and do something. I couldn't take feeling bad anymore -- just couldn't take it. Yeah, it's hard to start, even if you're not fat. Some trainers actually think it can be even harder for people who are thin and out of shape -- they don't need as much muscle to move themselves around, so they can experience a greater degree of wasting and weakness than someone who's overweight.
But being really out of shape, no matter what your weight, just feels miserable. How do people take it?
How do people keep doing the stuff they know is making them miserable? I don't understand it
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