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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I was a college athlete from a family of athletes with a dietician mother. I was never really around overweight people until I began my career and my job is to help people lose weight and get in shape. I understand that once you're at a certain point it is difficult to lose the weight and I also understand how much the extra weight can inhibit your life. That is my greatest motivation to keep myself lean and healthy. I don't want to lose my breath walking up stairs or chasing the kids. I don't want to stress about my dress for my sisters wedding. I don't want to stress about heart attacks, heart disease, or anything else that would take me away from my kids early. By the time I begin interacting with overweight and obese people we have a huge journey ahead of us. I'm just wondering how it gets that far before someone tries to catch it. It's truly not a judgement thing. It's about understanding so I can help my clients better. [/quote]

You and your family value athletics. The first thing I would keep in mind is that many people don't. It is not the case that spending a day riding your bike is more valuable, objectively, than spending it reading a book or playing the guitar. It is entirely possible that you are just as lacking in perspective as your obese patients, because you were raised in an environment that placed significant value on physical fitness and diet. I'm not saying that morbid obesity doesn't contribute to heart disease as you say, but it sounds like you are saying that overweight=death, which is really just the perspective of a college athlete with a dietician mother. [/quote]

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