XFilesGeek wrote:
Outrider wrote:
XFilesGeek wrote:
Outrider wrote:
Its easier to lose weight than to cure mental illness.
When mental illness cause weight problems then they go hand in hand.
2/3 Australian adults are overweight.
Do 2/3 fat people in Australia have mental.problems making it harder for them.to keep weight off?
My experiences: I was fat as a teenager and unhealthily lost the weight from an eating disorder and overexercise.
Same.thing when I was 17.
Despite healthy eating and weight training I am fairly weak.
My strength was below average and is only.now just above average many months later.
Almost a year of proper diet and exercise I am not very strong and average in physique. But I don't give up.
I recovered from being both fat and anorexia.
Today I have an unhealthy obsession with healthy diet and exercise causing me lots of stress. It's been like this the whole journey but nearly 4 years later I'm finally becomig healthyish.
So I know.exacty.what you're talking.about.
*sigh*
In my experience, many "fat" people suffer from anxiety, depression, emotional issues, et. al. and they turn to over-eating as a coping mechanism.
Mental illness often causes "fatness," and it's not so easy for some people to simply drop the pounds. "Trying harder" doesn't cure anxiety, depression, or emotional issues.
You've missed my point entirely
80% of american men are overweight.
Do 80% of American men have anxiety, depression or emotional issues?
Depression. The most common mental illness, most studies say 10% of the population suffers from depression a year.
2/3rds of Australians are fat, do 2/3 Australuns have a mental.health problem?
Quite possibly.
You're always going on about how bad modern society is for humanity's well-being.
I just find it odd how some people here are quick to rush to judgement regarding other people's issues while simultaneously pleading for understanding of their own.
I do not judge overweight people with mental health problems setting them back. Most of them try but their emotional eating sets them back.
I judge lazy gluttons who not only don't Try but try to normalize obesity and are mentally healthy. They exist.
modern society is contributing to all this.
Humans have a built in need to conserve energy and maximise calorie consumption. ancestors had less access to food.
We crave sugary and fatty foods since these are calorie dense.
Healthy food costly, junk cheap.
Fast food uses a lot of clever psychology.
People work longer hours than our animals hunting ancestors did and most full timers have to really squeeze an hour of .into.their busy schedules. Meal prep every Sunday for.the week.
Our information of exercise and nutrition while at.its best.is masked by fad diets and flimsy training programs from scammers.
I don't know I'm an optimist.
I think its easier to lose weight than for an aspie to work a full time job or study while working part time and learn to drive and move out and deal with all the banks, companies, etc
Surely people can control their food portions and set aside 15 minutes 3 days a week for.some pedalling on a bike machine.
So our.modern human brains can get PhDs, program computers, etc. But can't be bothered with calories in calories out and just eat/drink whatever they want whenever they want.
Our bodies may not be priority to survival but being overweight fogs the mind so you'd think for optimum brain power we would want to stay moderately healthy.
People don't have to be bodybuilders or athletes, im talking the bare minimum eat.mostly healthy at.controlled portions and walk 20 minutes round the neighborhood a few days a week. Most don't even do this.
I don't disagree.