Sorry if this is becoming the fat blog or something, but…
Fat man loses half his body weight by making a few simple lifestyle changes!
“OMG this fat slob who ate lots of hamburgers and drank milkshakes every day finally straightened up and made some SIMPLE LIFESTYLE CHANGES and now he lost half his body weight and he’s never been happier!”
Well gee. I weigh nowhere near 400 pounds but I’m a lot shorter than this guy. I do weigh a lot, so much that according to some people if I weighed half of what I do now (which would make me much too thin, truly) it would be an improvement. But what are these simple lifestyle changes he made?
“Today, he runs 30 to 40 miles a week, works out two to three hours a day, does yoga in the morning and squeezes in a push-up whenever he gets a chance at work.”
So basically he exercises 4 hours a day.
This is “moderate?”
No no, this is obsession. This is working like a slave. This is what it takes to stay thin when you are genetically large.
Oh and notice how they blow off all his health problems to his weight and skip over briefly the most known bad health factor he had at the beginning of the article:
“Novak had gone to smoke a cigarette. “We were walking back up to our seats, and I started getting winded…” “
Yes, cigarettes will make you feel winded and they can and will kill you. Funny how I know people just as large as him who do not get as winded as he mentions when climbing a hill. Who happen to not smoke. And skinny people who have died young of cancer because they did.
But anyway. All the other stories they link to in the side bar say the same thing, once you cut through the garbage. These people became thin by becoming FULL TIME ATHLETES, the type of people who are obsessed with diet, exercise, running, and the like – not through “simple lifestyle changes” like switching to lower fat foods or skipping a second helping.
4 hours of exercise a day. Oh but he started out with “just” an hour of walking a day – to walk a mile, the article says – as fat as I am, it only takes me 20 minutes to walk a mile, which is about an average pace. But let’s skip aside that – which hour during the day should I begin my “journey to fitness”:
1. An hour sometime in the morning before I go to work, which would mean before I have to get my child ready for school, and he has to leave the house at 6:45 am (he gets up around 6) so around 5 am I could go walking for an hour – alone, in the dark, in the New England winter?
2. An hour sometime during my workday, when I only technically get a 45 minute lunch?
3. A hour after my workday, which would mean after the commute home, after my child is fed supper, so sometime about 7 or 7:30 at night after I’ve been occupied with work/school or getting me and family ready for work/school or commuting to work or home from work for 12 hours? Again, when its dark out, alone, in a New England winter?
And don’t tell me about gyms. I can’t afford a gym, and I don’t have a car to get to one, there are none within walking distance of my house. Yes, I did shell out for an exercise bike, which, I am often snottily told by fitness snobs, is the “least effective form of exercise.” So much for encouraging fat pigs like me to make “small but healthy lifestyle changes”.
Oh he did a low-carb diet, too. Need we mention again how a high protein diet is something only accessible to those of moderate to higher income? Go to the store and make a spot price check of foods with various types of protein vs. foods that are mainly starch and you will see why this is a factor.
Note the end where he attributes his success to his family. By this he almost certainly really means his wife, who presumably takes care of “his kids” while he works out.
So, easy lifestyle changes that can make you thin:
Be a man, with a privileged income, a slave-wife who will attend to all of the things you neglect while you make exercise your full time job and go to expensive gyms with lots of equipment that make it easy for you to get a full body workout.
The really sour side of me also would like to point out that it’s only been two years. I wonder how he will look ten years from now? Since almost no one ever keeps off weight that long. But they never tell you that side of the story – it wouldn’t do well to make up lazy gluttonous fatties feel properly bad about ourselves.
*wanders off to sulk and continue recovering from this horrible plague called the flu*
