Job circumstances prevent many from being good fatties?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1921349,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-nation-related
The article devolves into a bit of obeezipanicking, like "ruh roh, these circumstances prevent people from doing what their doctors want them to, and so we've got this OBEEEZITY CRISIS!"
But for the most part I agree that this is at the crux of why many people eat the way they do.
Now, this really proves that we are freaks, but at our house, we invest a great deal of leisure time in arranging food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We have bento boxes, and lunch bags, and giant thermal coffeepots we carry with us to work so that we don't have to buy food out. Would we do this if we had three kids? I doubt we'd do it if we had one. And still, with all the attention we have paid to our diet over the past three years, we are both fat. Jim has lost a lot of weight, primarily due to the strenuous physical effort his job demands out of him, but even after losing what he has, he is still fat by BMI standards, and so am I. But making better food choices didn't magickally transform either of us into skinnies. I'll make another post sometime soon about what I think it would take to make everyone in this country thin, and why we probably don't really want to do this.
And what is really funny is that even tho we don't have kids, Jim is the one who resorts to take out food, and I'm the one that buys prepared meals when we do seek a fast fix.
Sadly articles like this also bolster the Fantasy of Being Thin, "If I had TIME and didn't work this crappy job where the damn vending machines tempt me with peanut butter cups, I would TOTALLY stick to my eating plan, and then I'd FOR SURE lose that weight!"
The article devolves into a bit of obeezipanicking, like "ruh roh, these circumstances prevent people from doing what their doctors want them to, and so we've got this OBEEEZITY CRISIS!"
But for the most part I agree that this is at the crux of why many people eat the way they do.
Now, this really proves that we are freaks, but at our house, we invest a great deal of leisure time in arranging food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We have bento boxes, and lunch bags, and giant thermal coffeepots we carry with us to work so that we don't have to buy food out. Would we do this if we had three kids? I doubt we'd do it if we had one. And still, with all the attention we have paid to our diet over the past three years, we are both fat. Jim has lost a lot of weight, primarily due to the strenuous physical effort his job demands out of him, but even after losing what he has, he is still fat by BMI standards, and so am I. But making better food choices didn't magickally transform either of us into skinnies. I'll make another post sometime soon about what I think it would take to make everyone in this country thin, and why we probably don't really want to do this.
And what is really funny is that even tho we don't have kids, Jim is the one who resorts to take out food, and I'm the one that buys prepared meals when we do seek a fast fix.
Sadly articles like this also bolster the Fantasy of Being Thin, "If I had TIME and didn't work this crappy job where the damn vending machines tempt me with peanut butter cups, I would TOTALLY stick to my eating plan, and then I'd FOR SURE lose that weight!"