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Originally Posted by SnoWhite  I gained weight from getting sick. then i was sad because i was sick. I gained 25 pounds over a year! I was not over weight, but i could have a better BMI.
None of my friends or BOYFRIEND told me i was getting "bigger". So i kept eating bad, and not being active. Hang'in out & smoking alot of herb.
Then one day i decided i wanted to do more with my career and have a happy, healthy life. I took action, got moving (slowly). Now im down to 119! woo hoo!
I understand why people gain weight, and i feel for those people. But letting it go over two years is LAZY. Im lazy, and i did it! lol
It is all what u really care about. If u want something really bad, u will find a way to get it. |
Seriously, no one is going to go up to anyone and say, "WOW! You have gained a lot of weight!" And your boyfriend is sure as hell not going to do that.
The theory is that the person knows they have gained weight, and you telling them really isn't going to help the situation. It will just make the person who has gained weight feel like shit, and then you become the asshole who called them fat.
But good for you recognizing why you gained weight and taking control of getting it back down. It's a lot easier to lose 10-20 pounds than it is to lose 50-100 pounds.
Otherwise, I feel very sorry for people who are 100-200-300 pounds OVER their IDEAL body weight. Obviously these people have some mental and food issues they are dealing with. Just telling them to exercise and to stop eating isn't going to fix the issue.
Yes, there are people who have genetics working against them. But come on, a majority of the US society is not fat because of genetics. Some of them, but not all of them. Obviously, some people just eat too much and don't get enough physical activity.
As a society we should care about obese people, and especially obese kids. Someone who is obese taxes the public and private health care systems more... our insurance rates go up... and ultimately, as a society, our life expectancy will go down because of diseases related to obesity.
Kids today are so obese, they are saying that many of them will have serious diseases early in life... and thus will die young. That's so sad! We have figured out ways to live until we are 80-90-100 years old.... and now we are killing ourselves with fast food.
Anyways... there are so many factors that come into play when someone is morbidly obese. There really isn't an easy answer as to how they got that way and why they stay that way. I just find it sad when those parents pass their eating habits to their kids, and their kids have diabetes at a young age.