Push wrote:
kmh1225 wrote:
Push wrote:
haole wrote:
Maybe they had no healthy role models. Maybe it's not just being lazy - they might actually not have the skill set required to be healthy. Obviously they have to make the choices to lose weight, but if it is overwhelming or cost prohibitive or going against the "norm" it might seem to be an insurmountable goal. Saying "I want to be rich" is a lot easier than figuring out all the little steps over time that will get you there
this sort of thinking is what is wrong with the majority of society today. people take the easy way and push out the resonsiblity for their lives onto others by coming up with list of excuses.
it aint that hard but it takes a bit of work...
If you have grown up in a family without anyone modeling fitness or healthy eating, you have quite a bit to overcome. Everything is ultimately about personal responsibility, but there are very real 'barriers to entry' to health and fitness in Western culture: time, money, childcare, safe environment, appropriate shoes/clothes, cultural acceptability. People who are already maxed out trying to meet Maslow's more basic needs are sometimes trying to just exist day-to-day.
Certainly, one way for society to deal with people struggling with their weight is to heap on the scorn and disgust, but why? I don't understand why anyone would want to be deliberatley cruel like that. What does that do? Does it help solve or fix the problem?
I'm calling BS on this! Are you kidding me, it takes money to exercise, since when?????????????? There's a sidewalk right outside their front door!! Baby steps..your post reads like they need to join Equinox and wear $200 running shoes.You don't need to spend ANY money to make a positive change in your health. You talk about personal responsibility then you make excuses for these people!!!!!!!!
A sidewalk outside of who's door? Yours or theirs? Is it safe to walk out there? What time of day is it when they can exercise? Who's going to watch their three young kids? Is that person tired because they've already worked two shift jobs that day?
Uhhhh, stereotype much,"Push". I didn't realize all overweight people were poor, had several kids and lived in the ghetto. Again, you're making excuses for them, if they want it, rich or poor they will do it...it takes baby steps, not a phd in chemistry.
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