Boy, oh boy, did this article rub me the wrong way:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32272548/ns/today-today_books/?GT1=43001
Steve Siebold, a motivational speaker, went on the Today Show to talk about his new book, "Die Fat or Get Tough," and also to talk about how if you are fat it is your own fault.
Let me take a step back and say that yes, if you let yourself get overweight, it could be your fault. You do have the power to choose what you put in your mouth and what you do not. But will Mr. Siebold's "tough love" approach actually get you to want to lose weight?
This article lists five reasons it is your fault if you're fat, and for the purposes of talking about it, I'll post the break downs of the reasons here:
1.) Fat people eat for pleasure
Fit people eat for health
2.) Fat people believe diets don't work
Fit people believe people don't work
3.) Fat people are waiting to be rescued from obesity
Fit people know no one is coming to the rescue
4.) Fat people believe diets are fads
Fit people believe diets are strategies
5.) Fat people eat emotionally
Fit people eat strategically
Now I don't disagree with all of these reasons. I do believe that fit people eat strategically, because I know that when I was fit I ate strategically-I ate the bulk of my carbs in the earlier portion of the day and tried to finish off my day with a high-protein dinner after my workout.
I do not think # 2, "Fit people believe people don't work" is fair. Maybe not all, but I would say more than half of "fit people" at one point in time were non-fit people. How do you think they became fit? THEY WORKED. So how can a fit person think people don't work if they did work themselves?
What do you think? Is it YOUR fault you're fat?
posted @ Friday, August 07, 2009 10:15 AM