Why does being fat= lazy?
I hate when people say because you are fat you are lazy. I work over 45 hours a week. Take care of 2 boys and my husband, clean the house, do laundry , dishes. I am up at 6 and go to bed around 10:30. I don't even get 8 hours of sleep.
It is such an assumption. I just make bad food choices- sometimes just for convience.
It is such an assumption. I just make bad food choices- sometimes just for convience.
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I hate when people say because you are fat you are lazy. I work over 45 hours a week. Take care of 2 boys and my husband, clean the house, do laundry , dishes. I am up at 6 and go to bed around 10:30. I don't even get 8 hours of sleep.
It is such an assumption. I just make bad food choices- sometimes just for convience.
I guess it's that last sentence where the laziness is - you're clearly putting in effort elsewhere but being 'lazy' with food choices.0 -
I hate when people say because you are fat you are lazy. I work over 45 hours a week. Take care of 2 boys and my husband, clean the house, do laundry , dishes. I am up at 6 and go to bed around 10:30. I don't even get 8 hours of sleep.
It is such an assumption. I just make bad food choices- sometimes just for convience.
I guess it's that last sentence where the laziness is - you're clearly putting in effort elsewhere but being 'lazy' with food choices.
agree with this, when I'm lazy in the food/exercise dept it shows.....so they might not mean you're lazy in the fact that you sit on the couch and shove food down your throat but that instead of cooking a nice meal you're lazy anf grab fast food (not saying u do this)0 -
People assume it, because our bodies are the one area of life where we have the most control.
When we fail at this, people wonder what is wrong with us. Are we too undisciplined to control our eating and too lazy to exercise?
Answer for yourself; I know I was!0 -
I hate when people say because you are fat you are lazy. I work over 45 hours a week. Take care of 2 boys and my husband, clean the house, do laundry , dishes. I am up at 6 and go to bed around 10:30. I don't even get 8 hours of sleep.
It is such an assumption. I just make bad food choices- sometimes just for convience.
la·zy /ˈleɪzi/ Show Spelled [ley-zee] Show IPA adjective, la·zi·er, la·zi·est, verb, la·zied, la·zy·ing.
adjective
1. averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
2. causing idleness or indolence: a hot, lazy afternoon.
3. slow-moving; sluggish: a lazy stream.
4. (of a livestock brand) placed on its side instead of upright
Well unless that person has a health related issue....someone who is fat and follows under #1 of that definition...WELL then they are Lazy.0 -
I don't know where you are on your 'journey' here but I can tell you I used this same line for years. It kept me comfortable AND fat.
Truth is, I was working and barely sleeping and i was chasing after 3 kids and yada yada. What I wasn't doing was taking care if myself. I wasn't moving my body in the way it is required to move to be healthy. I was lazy.0 -
i know for me, people couldnt understand that even though i was active and did stuff like capoeira 4 days a week and did road races, went hiking, canoeing, etc that i was obese. some people (at an old job) would even remark how fast i walked :laugh: unfortunately although i wasnt lazy by any means, i was a LARGE eater.
i think that also confused some people because they were expecting someone like me to always be on a diet or eating some bird food0 -
I would not say fat = lazy. I would say fat = full of excuses though. 78% of American's are not meeting basic activity level recommendations. 25% of those are completely sedentary. Factors such as a person's environment, metabolism, eating disorders and certain medical conditions also may contribute to their obesity. But the overwhelming majority of people who are overweight, obese or morbidly obese always have some excuse why they can't eat well and exercise.
Don't give me the fast food is cheap bull$#!t either. Eating all that garbage and processed food will cost you tens--if not hundreds--of thousands of dollars in preventable medical costs. 60 minutes a day. Is that so hard to do? Park further away from your office and add a minute or two to your walk. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Go for a walk after dinner. Jump rope during commercial breaks. A little here and there quickly adds to an hour of activity a day.
Everybody take note, I was just serious in the "Chit-chat, fun, and games" forum. Does it bother anybody else of the improper use of a comma in the forum title?0 -
I hate when people say because you are fat you are lazy. I work over 45 hours a week. Take care of 2 boys and my husband, clean the house, do laundry , dishes. I am up at 6 and go to bed around 10:30. I don't even get 8 hours of sleep.
It is such an assumption. I just make bad food choices- sometimes just for convience.
So, you make bad food choices. Make better ones.
Besides, who gives a rats a** what people say about you. Let them deal with their thoughts and don't make them yours. Accept the support and prove people wrong!0 -
People who are fat are not lazy. However they can get tired because their fat cells do not want to give up the goods due to the hyperinsulinemia caused by insulin resistance. Elevated insulin levels in your bloodstream make you store fat and not give it up. Carbohydrates drive insulin, insulin drives fat storage. Cut the carbs and you'll be better off. Insulin resistance can happen to anyone who does not keep their carbs below 60 grams per day. A person has almost no hope of avoiding insulin resistance if they are eating the Standard American Diet, especially people who are genetically prone to it like me. I keep my carbs very low and stay in ketosis most of the time. That way my insulin stays low and my fat cells give up the goods. I am not lean because I'm active, I'm active because I'm lean. You should read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. It will change your life. Thank you.0
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I'm in your boat! I had a child and worked with gourmet food for a while, so my food choices weren't ideal... but in no way am I lazy. I am up at 5:15am every morning to hit the gym for a minimum of an hour, come home, cook breakfast, shower, get my son and I dressed for work so we can be out the door by 8:15am to drop him off at day care and get to work by 8:45. I work full time M-F and have a toddler. I tend to the house and do ALL the cleaning and laundry and get to bed by 11pm.
My husband is fat BECAUSE he is lazy. When he gets home from work, he parks his butt on the computer and doesn't move unless he needs to use the bathroom until he goes to bed. Ocassionally there is a variance in the evenings, not this is fairly common. He also chooses to eat fast food for lunch almost each day of the week.
So really, this phrase can be applied, but not always!0 -
Perhaps you'd prefer --> poorly discipled eating habits/choices ? That pretty much described me until 18 months ago.
Nothing in the weight loss/fitness world happens by itself. Discipline and effort are REQUIRED.
Good luck on your goals.0 -
I would not say fat = lazy. I would say fat = full of excuses though. 78% of American's are not meeting basic activity level recommendations. 25% of those are completely sedentary. Factors such as a person's environment, metabolism, eating disorders and certain medical conditions also may contribute to their obesity. But the overwhelming majority of people who are overweight, obese or morbidly obese always have some excuse why they can't eat well and exercise. Don't give me the fast food is cheap bull$#!t either. Eating all that garbage and processed food will cost you tens--if not hundreds--of thousands of dollars in preventable medical costs.
Everybody take note, I was just serious in the "Chit-chat, fun, and games" forum. Does it bother anybody else of the improper use of a comma in the forum title?
Actually, read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes... Physical activity doesn't really do much but make you hungrier than you already are when you're on a semi-starvation diet. This book will change your perspective of fat people. Thanks.0 -
I hate when people say because you are fat you are lazy. I work over 45 hours a week. Take care of 2 boys and my husband, clean the house, do laundry , dishes. I am up at 6 and go to bed around 10:30. I don't even get 8 hours of sleep.
It is such an assumption. I just make bad food choices- sometimes just for convience.
I guess it's that last sentence where the laziness is - you're clearly putting in effort elsewhere but being 'lazy' with food choices.
A lot of people are lazy with food choices but blessed with high metabolisms. No one calls them lazy.
People assume if you're fat that you just sit around watching TV and eating junk, which is a stereotype and rarely the case, but it's where the saying comes from.0 -
I agree. There are many factors as to why a person is overweight. Sometimes, it is because a person is lazy. Sometimes it's medical. Sometimes its emotional. Sometimes it's a lack of knowledge with health or being lazy with their willpower (overeating, craving).
Who knows how someone got to be the weight they are. I know how I got to be the weight I am and that's because of my restaurant habits! A few times a week will do ya.0 -
People assume it, because our bodies are the one area of life where we have the most control.
When we fail at this, people wonder what is wrong with us. Are we too undisciplined to control our eating and too lazy to exercise?
Answer for yourself; I know I was!
That describes me right now. I'm making a salad and cutting up veggies every day to eat while at work. OMG it is such a pain in the *kitten*! I really don't want to, and if I weren't doing an allergy diet, I wouldn't bother. I would just find something quick and frozen to eat. What does that do? Make me fat, because processed, frozen food is almost always high in calories/fat/other garbage that makes it harder to digest.
Regarding exercise? My only exercise if walking to and from work (30 min to, 1+ hour back, including grocery store). I need to get off my *kitten* and sort out my schedule to make space for working out (I sleep 8 hours/night on week days and 9 hours on weekends, I also work 9+ hours/day). I also need to put in the time to get a journal ready for it. Then I have to do it! Procrastinating with the food makes it hard for me to get around to planing out my workouts, so they don't happen.
Me getting fit is a real WIP. I know more than I need to about how to get fit and stay fit, my willpower is what really needs work.0 -
It doesn't matter what other people think. It only matters what you think and that you take care of you.0
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it is a misconception. definitely not true. in a lot of cases.0
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I think what's been said already holds a lot of weight. Fat = Lazy. It just doesn't equal it in every area of your life. It's easy to see why anyone would think it really. I mean, just because someone works doesn't mean they're not a lazy person just as someone who doesn't work doesn't make them lazy. I don't have a 'job' but yet I workout every day, eat well, hang out with friends every chance I get, play basketball... anyone who knows me would not see me as lazy, but as soon as a stranger heard "he doesn't have a job,' the word would probably creep into their mind. I think that Fat does equal lazy but only in that aspect of your life, which is taking care of yourself. The thing here though is that taking care of your self is not just physical, but emotional, intellectual, financial, relational/social and even spiritual (w/e that means to you). Whether someone works is only a small part of the whole and it's the whole that people see and we see in ourselves. If we're not taking care of ourselves in the majority of those 6 areas, then lazy just seems to make sense as a way to generalize and label it. Another issue is that if any of these are just a little neglected, they'll leak over into the other areas and before you know it, you're in trouble and "don't know why." Many people have a hard time cutting through their own bullsh*t and being brutally honest with themselves... Until an individual can do that consistently, they will struggle with different areas of their lives as often as the sun sets.0
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I think I get what you are saying. But maybe 'lazy' is not the right word. At least in my issue. It is assumed if you are overweight, you are not ACTIVE. I am very active, and was even before really putting in this effort to lose weight/get healthier.
I live across the street from a waterfront park. I have a hybrid bike that I ride all along the waterfront/downtown (usually doing about 10 mile rides). I ride it for fun, fitness, and the occassional grocery store run. I also have a Trikke and ride that (full body workout-about 7 miles). I walk down to the dogpark with my dog almost daily (about a mile walk) and often walk along the waterfront with my dog on his 'potty breaks' two more times during the day.
On weekends, I also walk thru/to downtown. And I would take yoga classes.
(I also just bought roller skates, and I really want to get into stand up paddle boarding and kayaking).
And now that I am trying to lose weight, I have incorporated a daily exercise DVD program (and make sure I am doing cardio at least 6 days a week)
But it is assumed because I'm overweight, I am not 'being active'. When in truth, I can be more active than a thin person.
Of course I was clearly not doing ENOUGH, and not making the smartest food choices/proper serving size, to have me lose weight from it. (As I am otherwise sedentary, as I work very long, odd hours from home)0 -
Fat does equal lazy.
Lazy in one area or another.
Laziness doesn't only equal not moving around and working.
Laziness is a state of mind....not specifically a lack of movement.0 -
Actually, read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes... Physical activity doesn't really do much but make you hungrier than you already are when you're on a semi-starvation diet. This book will change your perspective of fat people. Thanks.
Funny, I thought my comment about eating garbage instead of eating well would have covered your argument of good calories v bad calories. But thanks for the book suggestion, I'm always up for a little light reading.0 -
It is such an assumption. I just make bad food choices- sometimes just for convience.
It's a fundamental attribution error:
http://www.psychwiki.com/wiki/The_Fundamental_Attribution_ErrorThe fundamental attribution error, also called the correspondence bias, describes the tendency for observer’s to attribute other people’s behavior to internal or dispositional factors and to downplay situational causes (Gilbert & Malone, 1995).
Clearly laziness is a cause of some people's obesity but only a small minority. However, it is easier for some people to have a neat little box and label it "all fat are lazy".0 -
Park further away from your office and add a minute or two to your walk. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Go for a walk after dinner. Jump rope during commercial breaks. A little here and there quickly adds to an hour of activity a day.
one of the problems i have with these type suggestions is that they tend to come off as glib. some of these things are easier said than done though depending on your job and where you live
- you're working 9-12 hours a day in the office mon-fri and many times coming back home and logging in from home to do more work, there's only so much time you're going to have to sleep, rest, grocery shop, workout etc. and many people in this country work those type hours and probably will be for awhile as the economy continues to do bad and employers essentially have to make due with each person being able to do the work of 3. back when i worked those crazy hours my walk after dinner (since usually had dinner at work) was walking to the subway station, taking the subway home and coming home to crash by midnight because i had to be up at 7 am to do the entire thing all over again :sad:
- if you're working 9-12 hour a day in an office then more than likely all 3 of your meals are being eaten in the office at your desk. it's difficult to eat a good sit down meal at your desk in front of a computer when you are meant to be chasing up on emails and files. i'm a PM and trust me, I AM that busy. i know people who work in other industries (education, financial, insurance) who were even busier than me :frown:
- taking the stairs and parking further away have never been valid options for me. i've lived and worked in NYC and san francisco. stairs are 1 way only which means you can go down them in an emergency but the doors are locked so even if i did walk up 22+ flights of stairs to get to my job, the stairwell door would be locked anyway and I'd have to walk back down to take the elevator.
- the public transportation version of parking further away can very easily take 20 minutes on to your time rather than the 1 minute from parking further. and sorry that's 20 minutes extra i can sleep especially considering i was already not getting enough sleep
not making excuses at all just saying that some of these suggestions that are thrown out for weight loss just arent very helpful. what finally helped me was being let go from my job last december. now i work from home. i'm in the same industry so i still get the same type stress but i'm not forced to be at my desk all the time. plus i work for a spanish company now and euros are way more into work/life balance than americans. as an example at my old job each PM had to keep a personal capacity work that our boss would look over. this report told him how many hours of work you had ahead of you that day. if you had less than 10 hours of work (for an 8 hour day) you'd be given more new projects or assigned old ones that were screwed up by someone else0 -
I think it's a stereotype like any other. To generalize an entire group of people based upon one attribute has ALWAYS seemed silly and pointless, and shows only that person's ignorance, imo.
After saying that, I might add, I have weighed 297 lbs, and got down to 164 lbs. Now I'm somewhere in the middle again. And to be completely and entirely honest, I would NEVER classify myself as a lazy person, period. But if I had to self assess, honestly, I am more active at 164 lbs than I was at 297 lbs, and more than I am even now. So, I'm assuming there's some accuracy to it, for some people.0 -
I hate when people say because you are fat you are lazy. I work over 45 hours a week. Take care of 2 boys and my husband, clean the house, do laundry , dishes. I am up at 6 and go to bed around 10:30. I don't even get 8 hours of sleep.
It is such an assumption. I just make bad food choices- sometimes just for convience.
Well, I understand but there are steps that can be taken. I work 45 hours a week and have a 2 1/2 hour commute time. Here is my day:
0500 - Up.
0505 - Call the people that want wake up call so they can work out
0515 - Out the door for my jog/bike ride
0615 - In from jog/bike ride. (Jogging takes less time, so I splurge and read 'icanhazcheezburger.com. Don't judge me.)
0620 - SSS
0700 - Out the door to the train
0815 - In office
1710 - Leave for train
1830 - Home
1835 - 2000 Dinner with family, homework, light housekeeping (wife thinks it's too light, meh.)
2000-2100 Decompress/layout clothes for the next day
2100 - Bed.
No TV, no internet surfing, no screwing about. Is it fun? No. I miss playing my video games until midnight. I miss having a lazy weekend, instead of powering through all the cleaning/laundry/yardwork I missed during the week. On Saturday or Sunday, I make healthy vegetarian/vegan breakfasts and lunches for the week. Not only are they better for me, they are waaaay cheaper than getting some processed slop at Wendy McKings. Is it annoyingly regimented? Yes. Does it work? Yes. I've lost almost 40 pounds and my marriage and relationship with my son are improving because they know Daddy is happier when he isn't a fat, grouchy *kitten*.0 -
one of the problems i have with these type suggestions is that they tend to come off as glib. some of these things are easier said than done though depending on your job and where you live
- you're working 9-12 hours a day in the office mon-fri and many times coming back home and logging in from home to do more work, there's only so much time you're going to have to sleep, rest, grocery shop, workout etc. and many people in this country work those type hours and probably will be for awhile as the economy continues to do bad and employers essentially have to make due with each person being able to do the work of 3. back when i worked those crazy hours my walk after dinner (since usually had dinner at work) was walking to the subway station, taking the subway home and coming home to crash by midnight because i had to be up at 7 am to do the entire thing all over again :sad:
- if you're working 9-12 hour a day in an office then more than likely all 3 of your meals are being eaten in the office at your desk. it's difficult to eat a good sit down meal at your desk in front of a computer when you are meant to be chasing up on emails and files. i'm a PM and trust me, I AM that busy. i know people who work in other industries (education, financial, insurance) who were even busier than me :frown:
- taking the stairs and parking further away have never been valid options for me. i've lived and worked in NYC and san francisco. stairs are 1 way only which means you can go down them in an emergency but the doors are locked so even if i did walk up 22+ flights of stairs to get to my job, the stairwell door would be locked anyway and I'd have to walk back down to take the elevator.
- the public transportation version of parking further away can very easily take 20 minutes on to your time rather than the 1 minute from parking further. and sorry that's 20 minutes extra i can sleep especially considering i was already not getting enough sleep
not making excuses at all just saying that some of these suggestions that are thrown out for weight loss just arent very helpful. what finally helped me was being let go from my job last december. now i work from home. i'm in the same industry so i still get the same type stress but i'm not forced to be at my desk all the time. plus i work for a spanish company now and euros are way more into work/life balance than americans. as an example at my old job each PM had to keep a personal capacity work that our boss would look over. this report told him how many hours of work you had ahead of you that day. if you had less than 10 hours of work (for an 8 hour day) you'd be given more new projects or assigned old ones that were screwed up by someone else
I work 9 hours a day in my office (I hold two positions), Monday through Friday. I have an hour commute to and from work. I eat my breakfast in the car and my lunch at my desk. I just make the effort (not being lazy) and make good food choices. So perhaps parking farther away for your office and taking the stairs is not an option all the time. How close do you park to the grocery store? When you go shopping at a mall, you take the escalator or elevator, don't you? Choosing 20 minutes of extra sleep over 20 minutes of exercise is just plain lazy. In fact everything you argued with are excuses. Sorry. Period. End of story.0 -
fat=lazy is what we group people in because when we see a larger person in the grocery store driving the grocery store scooter around, and the basket is filled with bad food choices we judge that person, and make an assumption.
If that person in a scooter had the basket filled with fruits and veggies, then we would cease to judge that person as being lazy.
People don't know the entire 'story' of others. They will ALWAYS assume and judge (in ALL areas) until they actually know the other person.0 -
i never shopped in malls (i dnt even think here are any in NYC besides that one where only kids go) so i took neither escalator or elevators, i took the sidewalk but since i didnt really have time to shop in person i did a lot of online shopping. i dont drive so i took public transportation to the grocery store, so your parking tip is useless there (and no i'm not going to walk 60+ minutes with a weeks worth of groceries through crowded downtown brooklyn streets) and choosing 20 minutes of sleep when you're only getting 6 and NEED 8-9 isnt lazy.one of the problems i have with these type suggestions is that they tend to come off as glib. some of these things are easier said than done though depending on your job and where you live
- you're working 9-12 hours a day in the office mon-fri and many times coming back home and logging in from home to do more work, there's only so much time you're going to have to sleep, rest, grocery shop, workout etc. and many people in this country work those type hours and probably will be for awhile as the economy continues to do bad and employers essentially have to make due with each person being able to do the work of 3. back when i worked those crazy hours my walk after dinner (since usually had dinner at work) was walking to the subway station, taking the subway home and coming home to crash by midnight because i had to be up at 7 am to do the entire thing all over again :sad:
- if you're working 9-12 hour a day in an office then more than likely all 3 of your meals are being eaten in the office at your desk. it's difficult to eat a good sit down meal at your desk in front of a computer when you are meant to be chasing up on emails and files. i'm a PM and trust me, I AM that busy. i know people who work in other industries (education, financial, insurance) who were even busier than me :frown:
- taking the stairs and parking further away have never been valid options for me. i've lived and worked in NYC and san francisco. stairs are 1 way only which means you can go down them in an emergency but the doors are locked so even if i did walk up 22+ flights of stairs to get to my job, the stairwell door would be locked anyway and I'd have to walk back down to take the elevator.
- the public transportation version of parking further away can very easily take 20 minutes on to your time rather than the 1 minute from parking further. and sorry that's 20 minutes extra i can sleep especially considering i was already not getting enough sleep
not making excuses at all just saying that some of these suggestions that are thrown out for weight loss just arent very helpful. what finally helped me was being let go from my job last december. now i work from home. i'm in the same industry so i still get the same type stress but i'm not forced to be at my desk all the time. plus i work for a spanish company now and euros are way more into work/life balance than americans. as an example at my old job each PM had to keep a personal capacity work that our boss would look over. this report told him how many hours of work you had ahead of you that day. if you had less than 10 hours of work (for an 8 hour day) you'd be given more new projects or assigned old ones that were screwed up by someone else
I work 9 hours a day in my office (I hold two positions), Monday through Friday. I have an hour commute to and from work. I eat my breakfast in the car and my lunch at my desk. I just make the effort (not being lazy) and make good food choices. So perhaps parking farther away for your office and taking the stairs is not an option all the time. How close do you park to the grocery store? When you go shopping at a mall, you take the escalator or elevator, don't you? Choosing 20 minutes of extra sleep over 20 minutes of exercise is just plain lazy. In fact everything you argued with are excuses. Sorry. Period. End of story.
not end of story. you make my point perfectly. so thanks. people try to fit their suggestions into every scenario. sorry dude but not every scenario is the same. now had i lived in middle america or the south your sugestions would make sense, but there are millions of people who live in large cities who these things aren't really appropriate for. bu i do love the assumptions that if your suggestions disnt work for me then i must be lazy. :laugh:0 -
I would not say fat = lazy. I would say fat = full of excuses though. 78% of American's are not meeting basic activity level recommendations. 25% of those are completely sedentary. Factors such as a person's environment, metabolism, eating disorders and certain medical conditions also may contribute to their obesity. But the overwhelming majority of people who are overweight, obese or morbidly obese always have some excuse why they can't eat well and exercise. Don't give me the fast food is cheap bull$#!t either. Eating all that garbage and processed food will cost you tens--if not hundreds--of thousands of dollars in preventable medical costs.
Everybody take note, I was just serious in the "Chit-chat, fun, and games" forum. Does it bother anybody else of the improper use of a comma in the forum title?
Actually, read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes... Physical activity doesn't really do much but make you hungrier than you already are when you're on a semi-starvation diet. This book will change your perspective of fat people. Thanks.
Gary Taubes is dangerous with the stuff he spouts.
That line alone shows how ridiculous he is - physical activity doesn't do much but make you hungrier...
You may lose WEIGHT with his techniques but you won't gain health or even look that great at the end of it.0 -
i never shopped in malls (i dnt even think here are any in NYC besides that one where only kids go) so i took neither escalator or elevators, i took the sidewalk but since i didnt really have time to shop in person i did a lot of online shopping. i dont drive so i took public transportation to the grocery store, so your parking tip is useless there (and no i'm not going to walk 60+ minutes with a weeks worth of groceries through crowded downtown brooklyn streets) and choosing 20 minutes of sleep when you're only getting 6 and NEED 8-9 isnt lazy.one of the problems i have with these type suggestions is that they tend to come off as glib. some of these things are easier said than done though depending on your job and where you live
- you're working 9-12 hours a day in the office mon-fri and many times coming back home and logging in from home to do more work, there's only so much time you're going to have to sleep, rest, grocery shop, workout etc. and many people in this country work those type hours and probably will be for awhile as the economy continues to do bad and employers essentially have to make due with each person being able to do the work of 3. back when i worked those crazy hours my walk after dinner (since usually had dinner at work) was walking to the subway station, taking the subway home and coming home to crash by midnight because i had to be up at 7 am to do the entire thing all over again :sad:
- if you're working 9-12 hour a day in an office then more than likely all 3 of your meals are being eaten in the office at your desk. it's difficult to eat a good sit down meal at your desk in front of a computer when you are meant to be chasing up on emails and files. i'm a PM and trust me, I AM that busy. i know people who work in other industries (education, financial, insurance) who were even busier than me :frown:
- taking the stairs and parking further away have never been valid options for me. i've lived and worked in NYC and san francisco. stairs are 1 way only which means you can go down them in an emergency but the doors are locked so even if i did walk up 22+ flights of stairs to get to my job, the stairwell door would be locked anyway and I'd have to walk back down to take the elevator.
- the public transportation version of parking further away can very easily take 20 minutes on to your time rather than the 1 minute from parking further. and sorry that's 20 minutes extra i can sleep especially considering i was already not getting enough sleep
not making excuses at all just saying that some of these suggestions that are thrown out for weight loss just arent very helpful. what finally helped me was being let go from my job last december. now i work from home. i'm in the same industry so i still get the same type stress but i'm not forced to be at my desk all the time. plus i work for a spanish company now and euros are way more into work/life balance than americans. as an example at my old job each PM had to keep a personal capacity work that our boss would look over. this report told him how many hours of work you had ahead of you that day. if you had less than 10 hours of work (for an 8 hour day) you'd be given more new projects or assigned old ones that were screwed up by someone else
I work 9 hours a day in my office (I hold two positions), Monday through Friday. I have an hour commute to and from work. I eat my breakfast in the car and my lunch at my desk. I just make the effort (not being lazy) and make good food choices. So perhaps parking farther away for your office and taking the stairs is not an option all the time. How close do you park to the grocery store? When you go shopping at a mall, you take the escalator or elevator, don't you? Choosing 20 minutes of extra sleep over 20 minutes of exercise is just plain lazy. In fact everything you argued with are excuses. Sorry. Period. End of story.
not end of story. you make my point perfectly. so thanks. people try to fit their suggestions into every scenario. sorry dude but not every scenario is the same. now had i lived in middle america or the south your sugestions would make sense, but there are millions of people who live in large cities who these things aren't really appropriate for. bu i do love the assumptions that if your suggestions disnt work for me then i must be lazy. :laugh:
The point is - he doesn't know your specific situation, so the suggestions he makes are easy for you to bat down. However, if you think about it, you would be able to fit in exercise, or at least eating less and better.
I know it definitely doesn't take MORE time to eat LESS.
You made the excuse that it's hard to eat a healthy meal at your desk. What makes that any harder than eating anywhere else? I eat at my desk every day and it's nearly always healthy.0
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