In a society where calories are so cheap and manufacturers design their products to push our species' happy buttons, it's extremely easy to pile on the pounds. Since being overweight is scorned, that can easily lead to some degree of depression, a lot of people take comfort in eating, and so a negative spiral starts.
Following the birth of our daughter, my wife had hip problems which made walking or even being on her feet for any time painful. That resulted in her gaining weight. I'm sure that was, in turn, part of the reason she fractured her ankle after misjudging a step over a little ledge on the side of the road, and then her forced immobility due to that resulted in her gaining even more weight.
She's starting to reduce now, but it's not easy.
I don't have any such excuses for my extra pounds, though. I'm just a lazy bastard with little self-control when there's sweet stuff somewhere in the house.
She has my sympathy. I had mobility issues for a year after my second baby and it made it damned near impossible to stay a healthy weight. Yes, I could have reduced my calories more, of course, but when you're ravenously hungry because you're breastfeeding and you don't get any time to yourself due to little ones, and you can't do any exercise and you're absolutely exhausted, it is really difficult to keep on track with all the will power and effort that goes into healthy eating and weight loss.
The modern world makes it far too easy to be overweight. Ultimately the responsibility still lies with the individual, of course, but it stands to reason that the easier it is to be fat, the more people will get fat.
Obese people riding around on scooters really annoys me..
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This is very true.
In a society where calories are so cheap and manufacturers design their products to push our species' happy buttons, it's extremely easy to pile on the pounds. Since being overweight is scorned, that can easily lead to some degree of depression, a lot of people take comfort in eating, and so a negative spiral starts.
Following the birth of our daughter, my wife had hip problems which made walking or even being on her feet for any time painful. That resulted in her gaining weight. I'm sure that was, in turn, part of the reason she fractured her ankle after misjudging a step over a little ledge on the side of the road, and then her forced immobility due to that resulted in her gaining even more weight.
She's starting to reduce now, but it's not easy.
I don't have any such excuses for my extra pounds, though. I'm just a lazy bastard with little self-control when there's sweet stuff somewhere in the house.
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She has my sympathy. I had mobility issues for a year after my second baby and it made it damned near impossible to stay a healthy weight. Yes, I could have reduced my calories more, of course, but when you're ravenously hungry because you're breastfeeding and you don't get any time to yourself due to little ones, and you can't do any exercise and you're absolutely exhausted, it is really difficult to keep on track with all the will power and effort that goes into healthy eating and weight loss.
The modern world makes it far too easy to be overweight. Ultimately the responsibility still lies with the individual, of course, but it stands to reason that the easier it is to be fat, the more people will get fat.