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.

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)

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.

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 food

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!

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!

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.

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.

It doesn't matter what other people think. It only matters what you think and that you take care of you.

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.

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.