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Originally Posted by Chip Midnight  Fair enough, but that brings up a question. Completely objectively speaking do you think for most very heavy people it's not something they can do anything about? I don't doubt that that's true for a great many people, but all? Most? Just some? Nothing I've ever read on the subject has given me the impression that it's most, but it's not a subject I've specifically researched. |
Now I'm going to answer for myself... since ironically, I'm the poster child for innocent fat person right now. genetic predisposition + female + over 40 + injury + illness + drugs.
(I'm so rarely innocent)
Sure I can benefit from diet and exercise and once I pep talk myself back up, I'll get back on the horse - Wednesday actually.
But it's not going to be easy... nor pleasant.. nor safe to be around
It's going to be 5th circle of hell difficult.
Imagine that you have to spend the next year hungry. All the time. And coupled with that hunger, you get to feel exhausted and vaguely sick a lot of the time. And no, I'm not exaggerating. This is exactly my experience.
Imagine that you have to pay attention to every thing you put in your mouth, analyze and record it. Also, you have to play games with your metabolism. Three weeks of 1300 calories a day, then a week of 1000 calories a day. Otherwise, the metabolism assumes you're starving (you are) and adjusts to conserve fuel.
Consider that going out to eat with friends is fraught with calorie pitfalls. Not only do you get to watch other folks eating delicious food, but you can blow 1000 calories in a restaurant in seconds.
No alcohol - calories. No sugar whatsoever, not even fruit because it makes the hunger worse.
I'm taking pain drugs which have to be taken with food. Yay!!
And then there's exercise. No 30 minutes 3 times a week is going to even raise my pulse. I'm going to have to exercise 5 days out of 7. First stretching, then strength, then cardio. Luckily, I'm unemployed, so I have a couple of hours a day to devote to this.
And I'm one of those folks who has never had an endorphin burn from exercise. In spite of hiking over 200 miles of mountains. In spite of bicycling from Bremen to Hanover. And I've got injured knees now too.
If I didn't want my knees back so bad, I think I'd just say fuck it. Honestly, I'd rather do heroin for a year, then go through rehab. It would probably suck less.
And just to be clear, the above isn't an invite to a pity party. It's meant to be a realistic view into the task facing me.