SmoothTalker said:
Come on HandyAndy, that's bull****. Maybe you didn't know much about nutrition when you were a kid, but it doesn't take a dietician to know donuts/soft drinks/candy/chocolate = fat ass.
I use to eat a lot of crap too and was about 25 pounds overweight in middle school. I lost the vast majority of it quite quickly by getting my act together.
If you wanted to get fit you could do it in 1 year max with reasonable effort. Life story is just an excuse.
I gotta disagree with this for a few reasons.
Self-Esteem and Confidence
i did a research study on obesity in uni and spent about 5 months interviewing people, gathering stats, gleaning other studies and articles... the whole kit and kaboodal.
people with your mentality, that getting fit is easy are all over the place. and in some respects yes you are right. at the very core of it, as long as you burn more calories than you injest, you lose weight.
The problem is that food releases endorphins, the "good feeling" hormone. Telling a fat guy to stop eating is the same as telling you to stop humping your girlfriend before you blow your load. Are you going to do it? Not Likely.
It IS possible to lose weight, but the average fat person isn't going to do it because they love the 'fix' of endorphins they get from eating, it's not LIKE an addiction, it IS an addiction. they don't care about their body image anymore, and even if they did want to lose weight, what do they have?
A whole friggin industry leeching all their money out of them that's what! with protein bar this, no carb that, low fat ads punching you in the face and salad every single ****ing way you go!
We perceive a person as weak and insecure when they're overweight. This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when they hear this, and then start to believe it themselves.
As DJ's we've had to build our confidence from the ground up, with girls, our lives, the very core of our beings. This confidence and higher self-esteem have led us to changing our looks.
How is a fat person going to build their confidence if everywhere they look all they see are fit people telling them they're weak and should join a gym. as if it were that easy.
This forum itself is proof that people need encouragement. If you posted a problem you had DJ'ing and people just gave you negative feedback, would you want to try again? Maybe, but you can only speak for yourself.
There's a joke i heard while interviewing people that i thought was both hillarious, and revealing
Scientists are testing to see if soundwaves can be used to help obese people lose fat. the experiment consists of a pair of scientist strapping down teh obese person to a chair, then proceeding to scream "Lose weight you fatty!" over and over again for a prolonged period of time.
Not really the highest respect we have for overweight people huh?