You call that simple?!?!
It's okay, eventually you too will get old and your metabolism will stop and you'll have a busy stressful life, and you, too, will realize that keeping weight off is a Herculean task for most people.
Actually...when I was a lot younger, my mom thought I was sick and put me on a diet to slow my metabolism, because she thought I was too skinny. The doctor gave her the necessary information and I gained weight pretty much uncontrollably until I got to college. Couple that with really bad eating habits and not having the necessary meals to maintain a healthy metabolism.
When I lost the weight, I was in school full-time (16 hrs), working two jobs, performing in musical theater shows, and recording a demo CD.
I understand that it's "easier" when you're younger, but I didn't lose my weight because I hit a growth spurt. I had to work for it.
And even still, I understand that what I said
seems like a lot, but it's really not. It's simply something that removes bad habits that people have. I guess my problem is that I think over logical and what seems logical to me seems totally illogical to others. I don't know.
My friends thought I was insane and/or anorexic when I changed my bad habits, lol...but all I did was replace bad habits with good ones.
-shrugs-
Either way, without a medical related reason for a slower metabolism, there is no excuse for being morbidly obese other than you just "don't want" to do anything different. It just seems like lack of discipline and/or lazy, to me.
Even if you have a 40+ hour work week, there is always time to eat. You are mandated to take certain breaks during the day (or if you work at night, night breaks) where you can get snacks. You can eat lunch while you're at work...if you "don't have time" to grab something away from work, then you can simply pack a lunch and bring it. Breakfast takes all of 10 minutes in the morning to eat. Pour a bowl of cereal, drink some OJ, grab a handful of almonds. Bam...you've done better than the majority of the obese population in America. Eat dinner when you come home. Instead of watching TV for 4 hours and then sleeping, take one of those hours to jump some rope in your driveway/garage/etc. Do some push-ups. Do some crunches. You don't
need a gym membership.
To be totally honest, and the main reason I am against a bill banning obese people from restaurants, I feel that the cause of American obesity is misinformation and/or lack of information on eating healthy and what that entails. Yes, the food pyramid, blah blah blah...but you tell people what is is to be PERFECT and they will always fall short because people just AREN'T perfect. People need to know that you don't have to follow a food pyramid DEFINITIVELY to eat healthy. People need to know that you can work out and not go the whole hour and do 30 minutes and be better off than if you did nothing at all. People need to know that every little bit counts. Don't eat that second hamburger. Don't put so much mayo on that sandwich. Try eating it without cheese today. Simple things like that can have a BIG difference in your body weight.
I'm sorry, I tend to be expositional on topics that I take interest to and this is definitely an issue that I have vested interest in. I even did a 20 page paper for a class on the American Obesity crisis. It's not going to change until people stop blaming outside factors for their problems and start blaming themselves for allowing those outside factors to have so much control over their life and making them unhealthy.