Why Are Ppl Fat?

Why Are Ppl Fat?

OK, it is a question I often ask when I see morbidly obese ppl.


(found this GIF of a Youtube - where this guy dances and drinks the chocolate milkshake from the blender on the left side)

How did they let themselves get that way and why don't they care?

I guess I am lucky that I tend not to be really fat and after six decades can still wear a Bikini without too much derision (Only U.S. Americans have a problem with men in Bikinis - Europeans and South Americans wear them all the time)



Some ppl mention I am in good shape for a 66-year-old man.

But, a lot of it is my lifestyle because at certain times after age 40 I did start putting on a gut. I still haven't got six-pack abs (actually, I do but they are under an inch of fat so it doesn't show).

I have altered my diet and cut out most of the common high fat foods that most Americans take for granted without even thinking. I use a bicycle every day for transportation and several times a week I run for additional aerobic. I don't do too much upper body, just maintenance with 15-pound free wts.

Granted my lifestyle has its discomforts and I have given up much of the tasty foods I've always enjoyed (the extra fat and calories have always been bad for me, but my younger bod could burn them up). I guess it is the price I am willing to pay to have some boy, 30 (or even 40) years younger want to take me to bed. (But not that boy in the above pic).

I don't think it is entirely vanity. I haven't tried to hide the baldness, white hair or wrinkles - I know my age - but I want to look and be mobile, energetic and healthy.

Which makes me wonder why others don't.

 

If everyone was the same ...this world would be really boring.

I've often wondered why some people like to eat onions.

 

Because they taste so damn good.

I love onions - but I have to plan my next day around eating them. Alone and near a toilet - preferably with windows open. But I really love them.

 

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81374474/#comment-12562277

 

Everyone is different. Everyone lives their life their own way. I just let people be themselves and like them for the person they are, not for their weight.

 

I often wonder why people make the choice to go thru life very overweight. Quality of life has to suffer because of it.

 

Good video and it was nice to see the rationale of little (stupid) miscreant who was attacking the big boy. (School Lesson: Cows are docile animals that you can hit if you want - but since they are HUGE it is not advisable).

That is another issue, about our complacency with school bullying, which is now starting to be taken seriously, but not really about weight.

 

Because of their lifestyle maybe? Eat the wrong foods constantly, don't do enough exercise? It's actually disgusting, and I don't know how or why people don't stop themselves getting to some of the sizes they do get to. They obviously don't care enough about themselves to do that.

 

Oh, I do. I have an obese friend. Don't know her exact wt, but it is over 300 pounds. She even tried to convince me that I needed to consume more fat. (I do not try a fat free diet, just reduced as much as I can).

She also has mobility and medical problems that are complicated by her weight. But to her it is a normal condition that she does not attempt to change.

 

Why are people fat-- because of their own choices.

I could build a case for dietary misinformation and a predatory diet and exercise industry whose long term profitability relies on people not finding long term solutions but the responsibility lies with the individual. I'm 48 and do have that six-pack, I lift regularly and take very long walks (~10 miles or so) every week... I don't follow any particular diet program but I am a longtime ingredients list reader who is more inclined to put something back on the shelf that purchase considering the many incarnations that sugar takes... our addiction to sweets and the artificial sweetener industry, which promotes itself as a healthy alternative (it is nothing of the sort) has netted us a snoot full of diseases and conditions which are cash cows to the pharmaceutical industry.

I also follow a rule that to me is intuitive but is strangely controversial to most people I know- I avoid milk and all its products. Most people think it's crazy for me to swear off milk, cheese, cream, ice cream, butter... I believe that it is not only bat-shit crazy for an adult to be ingesting a baby's sustenance but in more than a few instances, downright suicidal. Milk's calorie and fat density is ideal for the relatively explosive growth of a still-developing young body but once growth slows, the excess fats get stored, not only in a muscle hiding layer of lipo-enhancement but also on artery walls- including coronary arteries.

My no-dairy decision resulted from a borderline high cholesterol test I took several years ago... not only did I ditch milk but I also stopped eating eggs- having accepted the misinformation that they were a cholesterol culprit. Within a year my numbers were much better and now I enjoy perfectly normal cholesterol levels but also good blood pressure- which had also been on the high side of normal- and I have since started eating eggs on a daily basis.

It boils down to not ingesting any ingredient that doesn't belong in the natural food supply and try sticking as much as possible with things that I might feed myself with if I were not a consumer but living off the land as an upright walking hominid.... and the key term being WALKING- not sitting.

People are fat because not only stuff their faces with JUNK that is killing them slowly and profitably for the medical/pharmaceutical industry, but also sit on their fat asses when they should be getting out and DOING something. Without civilization and a food industry we'd get exercise quite naturally- in getting our next meal. Excess convenience is killing us physically as it atrophies us mentally.

I also would like to remain mobile- others say they do but their behavior belies that. Some also tell me I don't look my age. I insist that I do- and that it is my peers that look older than their age because they've given their bodies little to do apart from deteriorating. The muscles, heart and lungs were meant to be used regularly.

Damn- that was wordy...

 

That's the choice I'm wondering about. It is a choice,after all. Some folks will say "I just can't lose weight no matter what I do". Ridiculous --following that logic would mean that it wouldn't be possible for them to starve to death.

 

i cant gain weight.. not much of it anyways..

 

How`s your protein intake? Do you take any supplements?

 

people are fat because they can (and are often encourged to) be.... stick 'em in the wilderness with nowt but a pointy stick and a book on edible flora and fauna... come back in a month and see how chubby they are then :sunny:

 

i agree wholeheartedly. i've no problem with people being overweight, a few of my family members are exactly that

it's manic obesity that drives me crazy. i get made fun of by people for spending money to go to to the gym, for not having a takeaway when others do; like i'm some sort of leper - the culture of today is ridiculous.

i was always told it was rude to judge a book by its cover - ironically it happens, but these days, maybe through a crappy defensive mechanism, the majority (and fattening) nation turns their back on health and gags at the person trying to stay in shape.

i'm not vein, but i absolutely love feeling healthy and active - there is no better feeling than the one you get after a good amount of grafting through exercise.

it's personal choice, i guess, to get fat. if you don't care fine - but to reiterate the point made by somebody else

saying 'i can't lose weight' is a lie. if somebody really couldn't lose weight - then why do they find it so easy to put it on?

 

Whenever I saw any of my family (years ago) the 1st thing said would usually be--"are you still a health food nut"? They can't ask me that now --dead at 48-56-62,etc.

 

Redd Foxx once said, "i dont understand those health nut people that take care of themselves, one these days they are going to be in the hospital dying of nothing and feel really stupid"..

I might of quoted it wrong.

 

heh, i used to use that quote to describe my own attitude .. then i got a shocking case of pneumonia and i realised that after 23 yrs of cig smoking.. dying of nothing might be a lot more fun than fighting for me last breath through ruined lungs

i wanna cheeseburger

 

Protein good... I'm not a vegetarian so I wouldn't be having issues finding well rounded proteins- my body delights in trying to self inflate when I eat a lot of beans it does make me musical- if painfully so... I had a longer answer but it went so fucking far off topic that I threw it in my journal here... it included a bit of a political rant..

 

I think it's partly genetic, part environment and lastly a lifestyle choice. There's so much pressure to live a certain way. That's why so many Americans are overweight/obese.

A lot of my friends and family are atleast a little overweight, but that doesn't mean they're unhealthy. I would probably be overweight if I hadn't gained an interest in exercise.