Pity it’s not as easy to follow as some people might think.
For instance: Eating “right” (using the examples you give) is an ability reserved specifically only for people who can tolerate that diet. Most people cannot convince themselves they “like” those foods, because the plain and simple fact of the matter is, food that is fatty or unhealthy simply tastes better than the whole grain goodnessof a nice bowl of mueslix. (by the way, I rarely eat anything but brown rice and whole grain bread, I can’t stand any kind of pasta, and I never eat white bread) And I can do 30 minutes of exercise 7 days a week, and it will have a negligible effect on my size and fitness, I’ve done it. And until you’ve lived in this body, you can’t say otherwise, and to say otherwise is pure conjecture.
The medical establishment has not even discovered the “answers”. For every “learned professional” who “knows the answers lie in eating right and getting exercise” there are a thousand people who do, and are yet large. There are as many diets as there are people. There are as many “solutions” as there are doctors and dieticians.
Here is the irrefutable fact. Some people have the metabolisim to be able to eat anything and get away with it. Some do not. Those who do not must work very hard, sometimes impossibly hard, to follow a diet and exercise regimen to maintain a “normal” weight and fitness level. I’m sick to death of the anti-fat BS, and I’m as sick of people who never eat a cheeseburger telling me “all I have to do is just this little thing and you’ll be fit and thin”. You do not know. You have no idea. Stop it. If you dare, come live my life, come walk a mile in my shoes. See if you can figure out how to get enough exercise in to make me svelte. (as I have said earlier, I am NOT weak, I’m just fat) See if you can find foods that I can tolerate that I will eat that are “good for me”. See if you can go a week eating what I eat, living with my stress level, dealing with my life. Lots of people have tried, lots of people have failed. Almost everyone “knows the answer” to my “problem”, but in fact my “problem” is merely that I was born with a different metabolisim than the guy in the next cube, who can literally eat exactly the same food as me and lose weight while I gain.
And dna_man, nobody is questioning your right to your opinion. No more than we question the right of someone to hold the opinion that “those AC-DC guys make me sick”. Get the message. While it is possible for me and people like me to maintain a “normal” weight and size, it is dramatically more difficult than anything you can imagine, and it is not your place to judge us because you are absolutely and completely ignorant of what it is like to live this life. If you choose to have a narrow minded shallow opinion of fat people because you are narrow minded and shallow, that’s fine, but keep it to yourself. If you choose to have a narrow minded and shallow opinion of fat people because “you know all they have to do is eat right and exercise” you are simply a fool, and bringing that foolishness out here is going to get you handed your ass.
I’m working like a dog right now, trying to find doctors, dieticians, etc. who can help me lose some weight. I’m not having a lot of luck. I get a whole lot of people telling me “Ah, no prolem, just lay off the fatty foods” or “hey, I did this whatchamacallet diet and lost twenty pounds”. I need good sound medical advice and treatment, and I’m not getting it, and I’m taking a very active role in my healthcare right now, and getting nowhere. And it pisses me off, just liken these threads piss me off, and to anyone who claims to “have the answers” I issue this challenge. If you have the stuff it takes, get your ass here now and show me. Until you do that, keep your opinions(because until they are proven to be effective, that’s all they are) to yourself.
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