03-03-2004, 10:47 AM
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#32 (permalink)
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Fly em straight!
Location: Above and Beyond
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Originally posted by Fallon
Ugh, I going to go on a bit of a rant type thing about fast food and such. I think this'll be my second rant, so sorry in advance...
I think this pretty damn stupid. Sure a lot of us are fat, but like everyone is saying, its our own damn choice to do it.
How many parents now are both working 40+ hours a week? According to a few places, our workweek is longer then 40 hours, http://www.libraryspot.com/know/workweek.htm and a study released by the International Labour Organization says we're working two weeks more then Canadians. An article about it can be found here, http://www.newsworld.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/...6/labour990906 and heres another thread about hours worked on BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/184166.stm
I remember an article saying that Americans working more and more and bringing a lot more of their work home thanks to laptops, cellphones and the like so going home and being able to work out, or cook a good meal are becoming harder and harder. Now, I know my week isn't as bad as some but I go to school and have a job on campus. Those two things take up 40 hours of my week, and I spend another 10 hours on a bus going to school and coming back. When I get home, I don't have the energy to think about a good dinner, I don't have the energy to go run around the block, I just want to relax and rest because I'm dead freakin tired. To my fiancee and I, it was always easier to go out and get some fast food instead of this. We know it didn't help our waist line, but you know what, we didn't give two shits we had to eat and its easier going home to stop at a fast food place. In our hectic life, we neither have the energy or the time.
For all of the people from other countries who are saying "oh you Americans are fat and blah blah blah," so what? We know that we're fat, we're working on it. Some of us don't care, some of us do. I highly doubt we're the only country in the world with obese people.
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With all due respect Fallon, it is this exact way of living that slows you down. You would have more energy at the end of the day if you maintained a healthier lifestyle. This includes both eatoing and exercising. Perhaps you don't care. Perhaps you do. It is definitely easier to go to a burger joint and pick up some take home grease, but think of the benefits you could have for yourself and fiancee if you did have more energy. I ask you this: Do you really give two shits that you are overweight? How about clogged arteries, a higher chance of heart and liver disease, not being able to be active with your kids because you are too "freaking tired" after work. I do not inquire or write this to upset you, just to point out that their is a different way to living. Rather than blaming it on workload, perhaps you should look at the activities that fill your day and see where changes can be made. But like I said, some don't care about it enough to make the change. This is the type of people McDonald's caters to. And there are a lot of them. |
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