Why do whites women become fitness obsessed as they older?

[Anonymous]

My metabolism has slowed to a crawl. I need to run three miles a day not to gain weight, even on 1100 calories a day. I would love to be able to make art during the time, or make music, or read. Unfortunately, there is either something wrong with America's food supply or with my body, because I require incredible amounts of exercise just to be a normal size. I fear that I am not alone in this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do you generalize about white(s) women?

Because it's true.

[Anonymous]

For a lot of my friends, they realized they were slowly gaining weight as they got older and they didn't like the way they looked anymore. So they started watching what they ate and exercising more. Most of them haven't taken it too far, and many of them look really good.

Some of them also realized they were having a harder time in the dating world as we got older and figured it might make things easier if they weren't overweight. (This is true for me - I get more male attention when I'm in better shape.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because thin is more attractive. Sorry, but it’s true.

but exercise doesn't make you thin. if you want to be thin, eat less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because thin is more attractive. Sorry, but it’s true.

but exercise doesn't make you thin. if you want to be thin, eat less.

Exercise makes you stronger. Helps in bed, for one thing. Weight-bearing exercises prevents and treats bone loss, which is common in women, especially asian women.

[Anonymous]

https://www.bones.nih.gov/health-info/bone/bone-health/exercise/exercise-your-bone-health

[Anonymous]

I'm white and work in health care and I've noticed this as well- I'd say it's a combo of:

New fad- we used to want to have some fat on us, but the new western beauty standard is more fitness based/smaller with a lower hip to waist ratio, even to the point of lost curves. You can see this in famous celebrities/entertainers/nudes over the last half century alone.

In developed countries, skinny = money (that's the value). It's not the same in other countries, especially less developed ones. Again, newer fad, American women want to have that beauty standard that also touches on affluence.

As they age, a lot of white women realize they'd better have something going for them physically (glass ceiling at work/take your breaks where you can get them), and if it WAS the face, it ain't now. Time to focus elsewhere.

Access to education- they are more aware/able to work on health issues than minority counterparts-like bp/cholesterol/glucose and that nutrition can decrease risks. They may even see some of these health issues in their own family and rather than be fatalistic are educated enough to change their outcome.

Uptick in social anxiety/obsessive/compulsive behaviours of which unhealthy focus on weight/size/working out is a symptom.

I just think there is a happy medium for everyone to enjoy their body and health and it's a different thing for different cultures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because white men are conditioned to value skinny, big boobs, blonde, young. Men of color seem to like some meat on the bones.

It's so funny that the women on this thread don't even know they were socialized to be "fitness obsessed"... I just love it, it's just in my spirit, I was always this way.

[Anonymous]

The SAHMs who take 2 or 3 fitness classes starting at 5:30am at Lifetime in Potomac are "fitness obsessed" . Then they complain how tired they are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because white men are conditioned to value skinny, big boobs, blonde, young. Men of color seem to like some meat on the bones.

It's so funny that the women on this thread don't even know they were socialized to be "fitness obsessed"... I just love it, it's just in my spirit, I was always this way.

I have to exercise to put meat on my bones and some curves in all the right places. Otherwise I look like a little boy. It's nice if you are genetically gifted to look exactly how you like to look.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you generalize about white(s) women?

Because it's true.

You are not very smart.

And probably not very healthy either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because exercise is healthy and there is a strong health culture in America, especially in the upper classes.

Also self discipline is seen as personally virtuous.

Our husbands work out also. Our families take sporty, hearty, active vacations. We socialize with our friends in running groups, hiking, and soul cycle classes, etc.

We put sporty outdoorsy stickers on our cars.

It is a whole culture.

everything is true except that exercise is not particularly healthy. however it is essential for this culture to belive so because that's the essential ingredient of this new religion - a belief that virtuous people exercise and will be healthy while rotten people will be punished for their lack of exercise.

Are you always this nasty? It's an ugly thing. I'm white and I exercise because I enjoy exercising! I swim and go to yoga everyday. My husband is Bangladeshi and he exercises too! Your culture can be so overbearing. Just leave us alone. Some Americans are naturally thin and we enjoy exercising. I have a disease that causes joint pain and I've had it all throughout my 20s. Swimming and yoga help with my pain immensely. Exercising is healthy. Perhaps you should look into volunteering instead of trashing your "friends ".

what culture are you alluding to as overbearing? i don't think that poster said anything about a culture and nothing close to south asia.

She's Pakistani

[Anonymous]

Those damn older whites women...lol.

I can tell you I, for one, would need to be medicated if I didn't work out regularly. Hard workouts are my antidepressant!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because exercise is healthy and there is a strong health culture in America, especially in the upper classes.

Also self discipline is seen as personally virtuous.

Our husbands work out also. Our families take sporty, hearty, active vacations. We socialize with our friends in running groups, hiking, and soul cycle classes, etc.

We put sporty outdoorsy stickers on our cars.

It is a whole culture.

everything is true except that exercise is not particularly healthy. however it is essential for this culture to belive so because that's the essential ingredient of this new religion - a belief that virtuous people exercise and will be healthy while rotten people will be punished for their lack of exercise.

Are you always this nasty? It's an ugly thing. I'm white and I exercise because I enjoy exercising! I swim and go to yoga everyday. My husband is Bangladeshi and he exercises too! Your culture can be so overbearing. Just leave us alone. Some Americans are naturally thin and we enjoy exercising. I have a disease that causes joint pain and I've had it all throughout my 20s. Swimming and yoga help with my pain immensely. Exercising is healthy. Perhaps you should look into volunteering instead of trashing your "friends ".

what culture are you alluding to as overbearing? i don't think that poster said anything about a culture and nothing close to south asia.

She's Pakistani

no i am not

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A white girlfriend I have is gorgeous. Hottest girl in our group. She turned 30 last year and was on a health/fitness kick she’s whittled down from a size 4 to 0 and looks very muscular and thin. Face looks gaunt. Youthful glow gone. Why why? She still had so many good years left!

it's not white women, it's a subset of american whites. it basically serves as a substitute for religion and has a lot in common with puritanism.

Hit it right on the head.