How do people not take better care of themselves?

[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.

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Not a privileged position. Decades ago there were plenty of less than privileged people but they weren’t all obese. That said I do agree that the problem also lies with the fact that cheaper food is often the unhealthiest processed food and that’s what poorer people are eating.

DP. People were thinner decades ago because they smoked and because of the food supply.

[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.

Holy trolling fsck!

1) do you go this hard for the other hundred things that cause "hundreds of thousands of premature deaths a year"? or just the fats?
2) decreased fertility? Redhat, much? Nobody owes you fertility
3) Did you serve? Because I'm guessing not
4) Your solution to bullying seems to be "don't be bullyable" and not "don't bully". Charming.
5) Source?
6) Do you have any idea how many skinny people have acne? this isn't a fat-linked phenomenon
7) brain fog is caused by too many calories? I get brain fog with too few

This is one of the stupidest lists I think I've ever seen on this site, and that's saying a LOT.

[Anonymous]

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

+1

May it catch up with you someday, OP. You have no idea how good you've got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, how can you be a functioning adult and not have a workout routine? It's just shocking to go out into the NoVa burbs or out into other parts of the country and see the sheer number of desperately ill people in wheelchairs, oxygen masks, people in their 30s walking with canes, etc. Didnt' we all take health class and talk about how the body works and the basics of healthy eating?

So, according to this ableist bag of used tampons, only able-bodied people are "functioning adults".

Utter trash.

[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.

It's called "being a privileged @ssh@t", pp. That's how.

The mighty tend to fall, too. But at least OP will die skinny?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 . . .

Ozempic has proven that the so-called obesity epidemic is just people eating too much. When they simply eat less, the weight magically disappears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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 . . .

Ozempic has proven that the so-called obesity epidemic is just people eating too much. When they simply eat less, the weight magically disappears.

Ozempic has proven that people will pay out the backside for a magic pill that will stop working the moment they stop taking it. It comes with major health risks, and the long-term effects aren't widely known. But anything to thin, right? The winner is the thinner?

[Anonymous]

I'm in my 30s and...

...one friend died in a car accident
...one friend has TBI from that same accident
...one has severe Crohns and appears bloated due to the disease ravaging her body
...one got a rare virus that attacked her brain and she's a recovering stroke / TBI victim in a wheelchair
...one has a rare congential defect that causes extreme pain and recently she's blown up because of the treatments.
...one has something attacking her heart
...one survived something attacking his heart and got a transplant
...one died of stage 4 colon cancer
...one survived colon cancer
...one died of breast cancer
...one survived breast cancer
...one was mamed by a plastic surgeon who botched her mastectomy and hit by a delivery truck in a crosswalk

Your judgement about things that could happen to YOU rather than having compassion for things beyond others control is disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, how can you be a functioning adult and not have a workout routine? It's just shocking to go out into the NoVa burbs or out into other parts of the country and see the sheer number of desperately ill people in wheelchairs, oxygen masks, people in their 30s walking with canes, etc. Didnt' we all take health class and talk about how the body works and the basics of healthy eating?

"the NoVa burbs"

Oh, the privileged tw@ttery!

Hey clown, I walked with a cane at 30, still use it in my 40s, and am obese in part because I was anorexic to appease thoughtless jerks like you in my youth. But you don't care about the reality of other people's lives. You just want to judge strangers based on the story you project on their exterior appearance.

How do people find the time to mind other people's business like this? Get a hobby that isn't fatshaming. Oh, and eat something. You'll be smarter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously, how can you be a functioning adult and not have a workout routine? It's just shocking to go out into the NoVa burbs or out into other parts of the country and see the sheer number of desperately ill people in wheelchairs, oxygen masks, people in their 30s walking with canes, etc. Didnt' we all take health class and talk about how the body works and the basics of healthy eating?

You are seeing a bunch of people in their 30s with canes? I've lived in NoVA for 20 years and I'm not seeing this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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 . . .

+1000

[Anonymous]

Yeah.

I'm so sick and tired of seeing so many obese and nasty looking citizens. Our people are very ugly and unattractive. Every time I go to Asia I never want to go back to the USA anymore because it is so unhealthy. The American people are just a sick population. Go to Asia and see how "thin" they are..I put thin in apostrophes because they aren't really thin at all, but are really jist normal sized humans that Americans used to look like in the 60s and 70s and even 80s. If you travel the world enough, you really get a sense of how awful American food is. I'm not just talking about restaurants, but even the supplies of food at the stores and the quality. All of our food is awful, from our chicken drowned in chlorine, to low quality oranges, to the hormone injected beef, to the god awful tasteless tomatoes covered in pesticides.

The entire lifestyle in America is awful as well. Drive everywhere. Massive portions of food that are really enough for 2.5 meals. Too many carbs, salt, fat, sugars, and preservatives in everything. Try traveling many parts of Asia and you will still see the 88 year old couple talking walks every night after dinner. No need to drive everywhere.. people walk everywhere most of the time. They consume way more seafood, plants, and fresh fruit and veggies, even for breakfast.

America is just a diseased nation with massively obese people. Gen Z is slated to be the fattest generation in history in which 50% of them will not just be overweight but OBESE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is actually a big part of it.

The changes in the food supply are to blame for a big part of the problem, but people need to not underestimate the effects of antidepressants/psych meds. A huge amount of the weight gain is attributable to medication. I went on psych meds at 35. I weighed barely enough to give blood. I'm now on Wegovy fighting obesity. The meds killed my metabolism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah.

I'm so sick and tired of seeing so many obese and nasty looking citizens. Our people are very ugly and unattractive. Every time I go to Asia I never want to go back to the USA anymore because it is so unhealthy. The American people are just a sick population. Go to Asia and see how "thin" they are..I put thin in apostrophes because they aren't really thin at all, but are really jist normal sized humans that Americans used to look like in the 60s and 70s and even 80s. If you travel the world enough, you really get a sense of how awful American food is. I'm not just talking about restaurants, but even the supplies of food at the stores and the quality. All of our food is awful, from our chicken drowned in chlorine, to low quality oranges, to the hormone injected beef, to the god awful tasteless tomatoes covered in pesticides.

The entire lifestyle in America is awful as well. Drive everywhere. Massive portions of food that are really enough for 2.5 meals. Too many carbs, salt, fat, sugars, and preservatives in everything. Try traveling many parts of Asia and you will still see the 88 year old couple talking walks every night after dinner. No need to drive everywhere.. people walk everywhere most of the time. They consume way more seafood, plants, and fresh fruit and veggies, even for breakfast.

America is just a diseased nation with massively obese people. Gen Z is slated to be the fattest generation in history in which 50% of them will not just be overweight but OBESE.

So stay there?