Nothing new this week except wondering what I'm doing anyway. I want to research aspects of foods and dieting, but in the end everything that is good for you has some chemical, genetic alteration, or political issue to make them bad if you want to be aware of your body and the world. Last week I heard we are bad people if we eat bananas.
Can't win.
I did catch this special on PBS about exercise I found very interesting.
General update: Did okay this week, but not fantastic. Exercised a little more during the week and that felt nice, but did too much leg stuff so my legs felt weary by evening and my arms did not. Then yesterday, I stepped funny on edge of sidewalk and twisted my ankle badly enough that I couldn't just walk it off. I hate being clumsy. I believed this one doctor who said if I lost weight, I'd be less clumsy. Well, I did not fall for the first 70 lbs I lost, but in the last few years, I've fallen a bunch of times so obviously it's not just weight that makes a gal clumsy.
I don't like being all negative here a lot, but I feel like so much is blamed on weight... problems skinny people have too, but they say it's worse for fat people because of this and that. Recently the governor threw out a statistic about how obesity costs the health care system billions of dollars and that's like 70% of problems. I looked online. The only thing I can calculate is that he got his stats based on obesity coming up as one cause in anything. Cancer can be linked to a million things, but because some cancers MAY be related to obesity, it's considered one of the things that increases health care. The fibroids I had are not completely understood, but on research they say it can be caused by a, b, c, d, e, obesity, f, and g (in descending order of likelihood) and yet that would come up as a reason for rising costs in health care.
I'm not trying to defend obesity, but I still believe people's arguments for being rude are based on ascetics, not health care because they will overlook other unhealthy activity by anyone except smokers and fat people. They are, obviously, terrible human beings simply because they smoke or are obese. You don't know my life.
No, I don't know your life. We (meaning the general public) are terrible people. It frustrates me that it is acceptable for the public to discuss women's bodies (because lets face it, guys do not get as beat up as girls do over weight)- how much we weigh, if we are over weight, skinny (too skinny), obese, curvy, extra curvy, straight, etc. Then if we are pregnant and/or nursing everyone has opinions about that too! Okay, this is a real pet peeve of mine... Basically, everyone needs to stop commenting on everyone else's body and worry about their own health! :) Hope that didn't sound to hateful...
ReplyDeleteThat was a general "you don't know my life". I don't know theirs, either, but I do agree that we are all terrible people because we judge based on what we see and sometimes forget to take into account that we don't know what got that person there. I try not to treat people differently because I never know if they have a valid reason for their thoughts, but on my blog I've started to grump about the way other people hurt me and my family.
ReplyDeleteI feel like people definitely think it's okay to judge others and call it "health concern" or worry about cost of care, but in the end, they can only and SHOULD only be responsible for their own choices and actions.