How do people not take better care of themselves?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a very privileged position for you to take.

Why privileged?

[Anonymous]

Neither of my parents or any of my four grandparents had "workout routines." I didn't grow up being taught to have a workout routine. I took one health class in middle school where all I remember is that if someone stinks you pull them aside and say "Excuse me, you have body odor" and one health class in HS that taught us all about STDs.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

That's life, not how you wind up weighing 320 pounds and diabetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neither of my parents or any of my four grandparents had "workout routines." I didn't grow up being taught to have a workout routine. I took one health class in middle school where all I remember is that if someone stinks you pull them aside and say "Excuse me, you have body odor" and one health class in HS that taught us all about STDs.

And you are struggling with severe obesity? Do you wish you had learned more about health and developed a workout routine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neither of my parents or any of my four grandparents had "workout routines." I didn't grow up being taught to have a workout routine. I took one health class in middle school where all I remember is that if someone stinks you pull them aside and say "Excuse me, you have body odor" and one health class in HS that taught us all about STDs.

And you are struggling with severe obesity? Do you wish you had learned more about health and developed a workout routine?

I am severely obese, despite having lost 50 lbs this year. My understanding though is that you lose weight mostly by how you eat, not by working out. I'm open to being wrong though.

[Anonymous]

American neighborhoods were designed to eliminate the best form of exercise: walking. Wouldn’t it be great to walk to the places you need to be and get a healthy amount of exercise in? But we can’t in most neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was just at Hershey park and it really was concerning. Families weighing thousands of pounds, waddling around or in scooters, mainlining junk.

There should be mass semaglutide injection sites ala the covid vac where you could get your weekly shot and a bag of celery for free. I don’t understand why the government isn’t supporting this. Overweight and obesity leads to hundreds of thousands of premature deaths a year, decreased fertility, unfitness for the military, bullied children, Alzheimer’s, acne, brain fog, etc etc.

This is a great idea!!!

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

I did a quick google search and it says the average american spends 2.6 hours a day watching television. I didn't even look up how much time they spend on their phones. Time is not the issue.

[Anonymous]

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.

That's life, not how you wind up weighing 320 pounds and diabetic.

Right. But I highly doubt OP sees as many 320 pounds and diabetic around her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a very privileged position for you to take.

Why privileged?

If your parents don’t teach you the importance of eating healthy and exercising, you likely won’t care about it. A few people will learn as adults, but it’s not certain. It really is cultural. The availability of junk food is also cultural. Americans prefer to eat this stuff.

[Anonymous]

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.

I did a quick google search and it says the average american spends 2.6 hours a day watching television. I didn't even look up how much time they spend on their phones. Time is not the issue.

After leaving the house at 7am to commute to work and then commuting back to get home at 7pm only to eat dinner, help with homework, do laundry and clean up from dinner, you're too exhausted come 10pm to work out - you flop on the couch and veg for an hour before rushing to bed to get 7 hours of sleep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Workout routines” didn’t exist before the ‘80s or so. Only muscle heads went to gyms. And yet people were thin. There are lots of us out here who are very healthy and don’t have “workout routines.”

Everyone smoked before the 1980s.

[Anonymous]

With two earner families who must commute for work, I’d imagine time to buy and cook healthy food is in short supply, given all the other responsibilities that must be juggled.