How do people not take better care of themselves?

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is proof why people are unhealthy. They make every excuse under the sun to not incorporate a daily routine for exercise.

I can't because I have to get up at 7 and get home at 7. Ok, then you get up at 6 AM and run for 20-30 minutes before starting your.

You can make batches of food on Sunday for the week in order to save time, and it'll allow you to find time to workout. Or you can prechop veggies for the week and freeze them.

Get creative people. If you don't prioritize your health, you never will. There's always an excuse for not doing it. Now when will you stop with the excuses and do something about it?

You’re making the grave, grave error of thinking your life is good because you’ve made all the right choices, and other people’s aren’t because they’re doing things wrong. I used to think like that until I had some very bad luck hit.

Oh boo hoo.

I met a Japanese lady who 85 and still working every day. She worked 13 hours a day 7 days a week for 53 years straight and never took a vacation. She delivered milk to customers everyday for the vast majority of her life and never took vacation. She wasn't obese. She never ate trash food in her life and kept moving. Even with insane work hours.

You are a product of toxic American culture. It's not entirely your fault, but toxic American culture also produces a bunch of whiners who never want to take responsibility for anything.

Yikes, I don’t think that a workaholic has a better life just because she’s slender. She’s just manifesting her dysfunction in a different way.

[Anonymous]

I haven't read this thread in entirety but came to this forum because I have had weight gain for several years. Despite being a thin person most of my life, I think I'm actually borderline obese now. It's sort of mind blowing. I have a healthy lifestyle and don't eat a mainly healthy diet. My genetics have played me no favors. So I woke up today thinking, I NEED to change and I need to change now. So my excuse is genetics and lack of discipline. I know I need to start a regular weight lifting program, and track my food. It's hard. But I know I need to do it. I know why people are fat. It's because our American lives make it much easier to be fat than to not be fat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:8 hour working day, 2 hour commute, laundry, cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, doctor / dentist / pediatrician appointments, get kids ready for school / preschool / daycare, drop off / pick up, help with homework, or just if lucky, maybe spend 30 minutes playing, or reading, depending on age, kids bath time, evening routine. Drop dead and rinse and repeat the next day. Add a sick grandparent, a divorce, an abusive or unhelpful or absent partner, a health condition, and basically, there is really zero opportunity for exercise.

I don’t know how you can go about life judging people from your own lens and circumstances, and priorities.

This. Most Americans don’t have the luxury of time or money. OP needs to gain perspective.

Exactly. I don’t have the time for a workout routine. I work 65 hour weeks, and I’m a parent. Even with my hours, I don’t make enough to hire a nanny or a house cleaner. I do it all: work, parent, clean, cook, chauffeur, tutor my kids, etc. There isn’t spare time in the day to have a structured exercise routine. So, in short, I live the life many Americans live.

OP, time is a commodity many of us don’t have.

You can make time.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with you, if they are at least middle class.Poor people often live in food deserts. It is also cheaper to eat processed food.

If you are middle class or higher, you should not be obese.

Tell me you know nothing about obesity . . .

If it's not diet, what is it?

+1

So many obese. The sheer number of people relying on semaglutides is sickening. The number of people asking on DCUM is sad.

It is diet, exercise, making the right choices and self control. Stop using the drug to stop you from eating the donut. You know you shouldn’t eat it, so don’t!!!!!

[Anonymous]

I traveled to another part of the country recently and I was also shocked how nearly everyone, including children, were obese. The main thing that gets me is that people don’t seem to care. People in their 40s and 50s unabashedly hop into the motorized carts at Walmart. No shame. How does nobody have any vanity at all? Why don’t people care about being unattractive or more importantly disabled???

[Anonymous]

Stress, high sodium, dehydration, high fructose, added sugars, lack of exercise are making people fat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:8 hour working day, 2 hour commute, laundry, cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, doctor / dentist / pediatrician appointments, get kids ready for school / preschool / daycare, drop off / pick up, help with homework, or just if lucky, maybe spend 30 minutes playing, or reading, depending on age, kids bath time, evening routine. Drop dead and rinse and repeat the next day. Add a sick grandparent, a divorce, an abusive or unhelpful or absent partner, a health condition, and basically, there is really zero opportunity for exercise.

I don’t know how you can go about life judging people from your own lens and circumstances, and priorities.

This. Most Americans don’t have the luxury of time or money. OP needs to gain perspective.

Exactly. I don’t have the time for a workout routine. I work 65 hour weeks, and I’m a parent. Even with my hours, I don’t make enough to hire a nanny or a house cleaner. I do it all: work, parent, clean, cook, chauffeur, tutor my kids, etc. There isn’t spare time in the day to have a structured exercise routine. So, in short, I live the life many Americans live.

OP, time is a commodity many of us don’t have.

You can make time.

+1

Go for a simple walk. Some exercise is better than none. Get some 5 pound dumbbells and lift weights. Do some squats at home. Do some jumping jacks to get your heart rate up. There at many ways go exercise at home without going out. Get off the phone.

[Anonymous]

This topic has been discussed on DCUM before and many posters defend the sedentary, low nutrition, junk food as primary dietary intake people. I get it.

But it is discouraging and disappointing when you have a loved one who creates health situations by their lifestyle choices and refusing to take care of themselves.

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The first step for America to beat it, is to not let your children become fat. It changes your physiology and those kids will have almost no chance at being a healthy weight as adults if they are obese as kids. Stop putting your heads in the sand. 20 percent (!!!) of children are obese here. It’s abuse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:8 hour working day, 2 hour commute, laundry, cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, doctor / dentist / pediatrician appointments, get kids ready for school / preschool / daycare, drop off / pick up, help with homework, or just if lucky, maybe spend 30 minutes playing, or reading, depending on age, kids bath time, evening routine. Drop dead and rinse and repeat the next day. Add a sick grandparent, a divorce, an abusive or unhelpful or absent partner, a health condition, and basically, there is really zero opportunity for exercise.

I don’t know how you can go about life judging people from your own lens and circumstances, and priorities.

This. Most Americans don’t have the luxury of time or money. OP needs to gain perspective.

Exactly. I don’t have the time for a workout routine. I work 65 hour weeks, and I’m a parent. Even with my hours, I don’t make enough to hire a nanny or a house cleaner. I do it all: work, parent, clean, cook, chauffeur, tutor my kids, etc. There isn’t spare time in the day to have a structured exercise routine. So, in short, I live the life many Americans live.

OP, time is a commodity many of us don’t have.

You can make time.

+1

Go for a simple walk. Some exercise is better than none. Get some 5 pound dumbbells and lift weights. Do some squats at home. Do some jumping jacks to get your heart rate up. There at many ways go exercise at home without going out. Get off the phone.

I’m amazed the two of you have more understanding of my life and its challenges than I do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read this thread in entirety but came to this forum because I have had weight gain for several years. Despite being a thin person most of my life, I think I'm actually borderline obese now. It's sort of mind blowing. I have a healthy lifestyle and don't eat a mainly healthy diet. My genetics have played me no favors. So I woke up today thinking, I NEED to change and I need to change now. So my excuse is genetics and lack of discipline. I know I need to start a regular weight lifting program, and track my food. It's hard. But I know I need to do it. I know why people are fat. It's because our American lives make it much easier to be fat than to not be fat.

This is the positive attitude that actually makes a difference. I wish more people would be like you and not just throw their hands up and act like we are all predestined to live in poor health with shortened life spans. At some point you realize, one would hope, its not about how we look. Its our actual health.

The observational study was easy for me - I just looked around at my parents, my wife's parents, and all their brothers and sisters and other extended family members. Everybody else can do the same exact thing. I have ZERO intention of living like that. If cancer or some other thing entirely out of my control takes me out, at least I won't feel like complete garbage and I will be mobile past the age of 70. Or at least I will give myself the best chance possible, and actually live along the way.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:8 hour working day, 2 hour commute, laundry, cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, doctor / dentist / pediatrician appointments, get kids ready for school / preschool / daycare, drop off / pick up, help with homework, or just if lucky, maybe spend 30 minutes playing, or reading, depending on age, kids bath time, evening routine. Drop dead and rinse and repeat the next day. Add a sick grandparent, a divorce, an abusive or unhelpful or absent partner, a health condition, and basically, there is really zero opportunity for exercise.

I don’t know how you can go about life judging people from your own lens and circumstances, and priorities.

This. Most Americans don’t have the luxury of time or money. OP needs to gain perspective.

Exactly. I don’t have the time for a workout routine. I work 65 hour weeks, and I’m a parent. Even with my hours, I don’t make enough to hire a nanny or a house cleaner. I do it all: work, parent, clean, cook, chauffeur, tutor my kids, etc. There isn’t spare time in the day to have a structured exercise routine. So, in short, I live the life many Americans live.

OP, time is a commodity many of us don’t have.

You can make time.

+1

Go for a simple walk. Some exercise is better than none. Get some 5 pound dumbbells and lift weights. Do some squats at home. Do some jumping jacks to get your heart rate up. There at many ways go exercise at home without going out. Get off the phone.

I’m amazed the two of you have more understanding of my life and its challenges than I do.

Then you can feel exceptional and go into the impossible category. Meanwhile, that does not explain the phenomenon on a population level.

Somehow, all the most exceptionally challenged people that have zero control over their own health all show up on DCUM. Amazing statistics that situation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:8 hour working day, 2 hour commute, laundry, cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, doctor / dentist / pediatrician appointments, get kids ready for school / preschool / daycare, drop off / pick up, help with homework, or just if lucky, maybe spend 30 minutes playing, or reading, depending on age, kids bath time, evening routine. Drop dead and rinse and repeat the next day. Add a sick grandparent, a divorce, an abusive or unhelpful or absent partner, a health condition, and basically, there is really zero opportunity for exercise.

I don’t know how you can go about life judging people from your own lens and circumstances, and priorities.

This. Most Americans don’t have the luxury of time or money. OP needs to gain perspective.

Exactly. I don’t have the time for a workout routine. I work 65 hour weeks, and I’m a parent. Even with my hours, I don’t make enough to hire a nanny or a house cleaner. I do it all: work, parent, clean, cook, chauffeur, tutor my kids, etc. There isn’t spare time in the day to have a structured exercise routine. So, in short, I live the life many Americans live.

OP, time is a commodity many of us don’t have.

You can make time.

+1

Go for a simple walk. Some exercise is better than none. Get some 5 pound dumbbells and lift weights. Do some squats at home. Do some jumping jacks to get your heart rate up. There at many ways go exercise at home without going out. Get off the phone.

I’m amazed the two of you have more understanding of my life and its challenges than I do.

So why are you fat? What’s your excuse? Tell us what we don’t understand. Enlighten us, please.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is proof why people are unhealthy. They make every excuse under the sun to not incorporate a daily routine for exercise.

I can't because I have to get up at 7 and get home at 7. Ok, then you get up at 6 AM and run for 20-30 minutes before starting your.

You can make batches of food on Sunday for the week in order to save time, and it'll allow you to find time to workout. Or you can prechop veggies for the week and freeze them.

Get creative people. If you don't prioritize your health, you never will. There's always an excuse for not doing it. Now when will you stop with the excuses and do something about it?

You’re making the grave, grave error of thinking your life is good because you’ve made all the right choices, and other people’s aren’t because they’re doing things wrong. I used to think like that until I had some very bad luck hit.

Oh boo hoo.

I met a Japanese lady who 85 and still working every day. She worked 13 hours a day 7 days a week for 53 years straight and never took a vacation. She delivered milk to customers everyday for the vast majority of her life and never took vacation. She wasn't obese. She never ate trash food in her life and kept moving. Even with insane work hours.

You are a product of toxic American culture. It's not entirely your fault, but toxic American culture also produces a bunch of whiners who never want to take responsibility for anything.

Yikes, is this OP?
What a weird response. You may be fit, but this sort of attitude reveals something unhealthy mentally about you.

Stop being jealous. A well built physique is a status symbol. It reflects you worked hard for it, no money can buy it. You cannot borrow it, you cannot inherit it, you cannot steal it. You cannot hold onto it without constant work. It shows discipline, it shows self respect, it shows patience, work ethic and passion. That is why I do what I do.

I know you don't have the discipline for it. No need to make excuses though.

I’ll take a healthy spirit over a well-built physique any day. You may be physically in shape, but you sound miserable. All that judgment and insecurity must weigh on you after a while. (And yes, putting others down to feel better is insecurity.)

Sure you would. Get back to me when you have your feet amputated from diabetes.

Yup are a shining example of why Americans these days are so fat and sloppy. There's a million reasons and excuses for why you are and even more reasons why you can't clean up your diet or exercise on a regular basis. This board needs to travel abroad more to see what normal humans look like and what quality food looks and tastes like. Truly a diseased nation. And the best part is that Americans have a stubborn mindset that it is completely out of their control, which is nothing more than tons of brainwashing from the pharmaceutical industry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:8 hour working day, 2 hour commute, laundry, cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, doctor / dentist / pediatrician appointments, get kids ready for school / preschool / daycare, drop off / pick up, help with homework, or just if lucky, maybe spend 30 minutes playing, or reading, depending on age, kids bath time, evening routine. Drop dead and rinse and repeat the next day. Add a sick grandparent, a divorce, an abusive or unhelpful or absent partner, a health condition, and basically, there is really zero opportunity for exercise.

I don’t know how you can go about life judging people from your own lens and circumstances, and priorities.

This. Most Americans don’t have the luxury of time or money. OP needs to gain perspective.

Exactly. I don’t have the time for a workout routine. I work 65 hour weeks, and I’m a parent. Even with my hours, I don’t make enough to hire a nanny or a house cleaner. I do it all: work, parent, clean, cook, chauffeur, tutor my kids, etc. There isn’t spare time in the day to have a structured exercise routine. So, in short, I live the life many Americans live.

OP, time is a commodity many of us don’t have.

You can make time.

+1

Go for a simple walk. Some exercise is better than none. Get some 5 pound dumbbells and lift weights. Do some squats at home. Do some jumping jacks to get your heart rate up. There at many ways go exercise at home without going out. Get off the phone.

I’m amazed the two of you have more understanding of my life and its challenges than I do.

Stop wasting time reading these threads and feel personally attacked and go for a walk Spend as little as 20 minutes and increase that heart create of yours. Exercise is a natural appetite suppressant.

Have some salad and a protein and call it a day. Have a donut once in a while. Eat half. Don’t eat 2. Drink more water. Stop having those venti drinks at Starbucks.

Ask me how I know.