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Exercising and eating healthy are two utterly diverent things and independent of one another. I'm a 3:40 marathoner and exercise usually 2 hours a day. But I eat whatever the hell I want to eat and am extremely healthy. My cholesterol is 141, my BP is 100/62 and I weigh what I weigh in High School.
I have passive contempt for lazy fat people who don't exercise. I exercise so I can drink my beer and eat a gallon of ice cream. Sunday mornings I will run stairs for 2 hours so I can pig out. The food Nazis here are really tiresome. It's an utterly erroneous belief that "because I eat no white sugar and no white flour I am infinitely superior to you."
Except that healthy eating habits are probably the number one way to prevent cancer
Really? Above avoiding nicotine?
Where is your proof of this? Cite one study that shows that someone who eats 10 cherry pies a week but who exercises like a demon has a higher rate of cancer than a sedentary drone whose diet consists of wheat germ and lettuce.
1. I'm not as strong, or as motivated, or... (fill in the blank) as you
2. I can't afford it
3. I like to eat
4. I have to be available to drive my teenager/lazy college age student everywhere & anywhere (even though there are other options)
5. I broke both my feet (heard this today!! a friend tripped in heels fracturing bones (don't remember which) in both feet & is wearing bilat walking boots) - I do think this is legitimate
6. I can't walk as fast as you, so I never want to go again
7. You're nuts!!!
8. Doesn't our 5 minute walk to Starbucks count? (you betcha!!)
Exercising and eating healthy are two utterly diverent things and independent of one another. I'm a 3:40 marathoner and exercise usually 2 hours a day. But I eat whatever the hell I want to eat and am extremely healthy. My cholesterol is 141, my BP is 100/62 and I weigh what I weigh in High School.
I have passive contempt for lazy fat people who don't exercise. I exercise so I can drink my beer and eat a gallon of ice cream. Sunday mornings I will run stairs for 2 hours so I can pig out. The food Nazis here are really tiresome. It's an utterly erroneous belief that "because I eat no white sugar and no white flour I am infinitely superior to you."
While copious amounts of exercise that may work for you and compensate for your overindulgence in ice cream and/or whatever else you eat, it's frankly not realistic to expect everyone else in America to exercise 2 hours every day. Eating clean is actually a much lower burden for most people than spending hours on end in a gym per day, which is why it was brought up. It's not being a food Nazi. It's called being pragmatic. And ice cream is still going to rot your teeth regardless of how many steps you climb.
Where is your proof of this? Cite one study that shows that someone who eats 10 cherry pies a week but who exercises like a demon has a higher rate of cancer than a sedentary drone whose diet consists of wheat germ and lettuce.
The poster who replied to me about healthy diet being the best way to avoid cancer missed my point. My point was that I don't feel any huge need to micromanage my diet or go out of my way to exercise for the reasons that most women do (generally to look good) because I don't have a weight issue. Never have. Must be the genes, I dunno. Or perhaps the fact that a single bite or two of anything sweet is ENOUGH for me, I can't stomach an entire half-pound of fudge in a single sitting (watched my fat Mom do that once) and I'm not interested at all in pigging out on a huge dinner and then crashing out in front of the TV any night, let alone every night. I'd rather eat a big breakfast than a big dinner, which is the opposite of what many folks I know do. (Typical office workers are having no breakfast and big dinners in my experience.) I eat whatever I crave, but usually not a lot of it. So maybe that's part of my lack of weight gain. Or maybe I'm a freak, because every other woman in either side of my family gets heavy after having kids...I didn't. *shrug*
However, despite looking generally fine, and checking out well in terms of blood pressure etc, I'm under no illusions that my lifestyle is a healthy one. Cancer also runs in the family and regardless of my eating habits, I'm a smoker...so yeah. I'm asking for it. I know this. One of these days I'll get through the hell of quitting and stop damaging myself thusly, I do hope. And no, I'm not fishing for advice on how to quit RIGHT NOW because I'm not ready to try at the moment.
I think I'm the opposite of most people I know in another way, too...I'd much rather exercise than modify my diet. The idea of eating plants is revolting to me. I'd rather eat bugs than plants. People just don't know. For someone as picky as I am, it's not a food snobbery or something I could simply force myself to change or get used to. I would rather suffer significant physical pain than make myself eat something I don't like. Which includes anything spicy, rich, or strong flavored, alcohol, most plants and especially green leafy ones, any and all condiments, and a host of other things. I'm just weird like that I guess.
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