20 Things You Didn’t Know About… Obesity
These lines really jumped out at me.
“2. According to a study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, nearly half the 4,000 people responding to an online survey about obesity said they would give up a year of their life rather than be fat.
3. Between 15 percent and 30 percent also said they would rather walk away from their marriage, give up the possibility of having children, be depressed, or become alcoholic rather than be obese.
4. Five percent and 4 percent, respectively, said they would rather lose a limb or be blind than be overweight.”
Let me be the first to say… Damn!
Give up a year of my life? Leave my marriage? Give up a limb? People are willing to do a lot, just about anything, to avoid obesity. So why are so many people still obese?
If I could answer that one, I’d be a billionaire, and everyone would be healthy and happy with their bodies. I’ll tell you what I THINK though. I think that it’s way too easy to gain weight. You get a big meal for lunch, you eat it all, or most of it. Maybe you were taught to clean your plate; maybe you’re chit-chatting and you just eat it before you realize it; maybe it tastes good and you want it, even though you stopped being hungry five minutes ago. Whatever the reason, we eat more than we should. I know one of my triggers is being upset or depressed. If I’ve had a rough day, watch out. I’m likely to eat everything in sight and hardly even think about it.
Another problem I see is that everyone tells you how easy it is to lose weight. Flip through a magazine, or watch some commercials. In no time you’ll see some pills, a diet, a piece of exercise equipment, and all of them will tell you how fast and easy you can lose weight using them.
And it’s a lie.
They all may work. Just about anything will work if you do it. But it’s not easy, and it’s not fast. You’re not going to go from obese to 6 pack abs by lifting a few weights three times a week. You won’t get up in a month and be miraculously changed. You won’t buy the latest diet food and watch the weight melt off effortlessly. You’re going to have to work at exercising, work and giving up the foods you like and sticking with the diet.
It’s hard, and because it’s hard, we fail. And to make it worse, we feel guilty about failing because everyone keeps telling us how easy it is.
That’s why I started this blog. I believe that by making small changes you can slowly lose weight without the giant struggle that you face otherwise. No, you won’t get six pack abs or fit into that size 6 in weeks. But you won’t feel like a failure either.
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