Balancing the Weight Issue

The growing problem in the United States is not weight. The growing problem is an inability to change family habits. Only a few decades ago people worked on farms and in factories. With demand for information related to computers the United States workforce has changed. Children of farmers are working as computer technicians in call centers. Children of factory workers are secretaries. The average workout consists of walking to the car, walking to the desk and cleaning the house.

Working in a warehouse is eight hours of constant exercise. Though repetitive, it is physically exhausting. When someone exercises they consume calories to stay healthy. The large breakfast of three pancakes, scrambled eggs, couple slices of ham and deep fried hash browns was common. All these foods are good, yet amounts need to be adjusted. With a limited amount of exercise cleaning the house and planned exercise program, I feel full with two pancakes and a piece of fruit or cheesy scramble eggs and toast.

A person growing up in a household still making the same amount of food for physically exhausting work is not a problem when continuing to work in the same environment. It is possible to change dietary habits in one generation. My Grandmother Mary's father was a farmer and she was a housewife who occasionally worked as a data operator. By the time I was born she was showing me low impact workouts and prepared two fried eggs for breakfast with a slice of toast. Dinner usually consisted of soup and salad. She readjusted to her environment so why is it so difficult?

At age twenty I realized as a teen it was easy walking a couple miles in a day to hang out with friends and go to the mall. After owning a car I gained a few pounds. Realizing I wasn't doing as much, I implemented a light exercise routine to balance out calorie intake. When skipping exercise, I eat less.

People are always ways to elevate levels of health to being an Olympic Athlete. As being someone who makes money for intelligence, why do I have to run as fast as a sprinter? Navy Seals have to run 6 miles in an hour, because running could save someone's life. The ability to run is nonessential in my life. I might look more dynamic while typing and going to the copy machine, yet time is a limited resource. Hours for training are better used writing, spending time with family, cleaning the house, doing laundry, bathing, taking a vacation, tracking down an employment lead, spending time with friends and so-on. Compulsive exercise is as much an addiction as compulsive eating when it interferes with productive activity.

How does a person know if they're healthy? It is easy. Eat as many calories in relation to a productive lifestyle that seeks to thrive with multiple sources of influence, including: family, friends and everything else important to self-satisfaction. Words like obese, healthy, skinny and fat are as subjective as saying good or bad. What does bad mean? How was it bad? Was it below average? Was it cruel? Was it unkind? Was it unattractive? Was it not as productive as something else? Did it fall below set quotas?

It is going to be easier for everyone to be tolerant when people stop blaming everyone and fix their own problems. Obesity was not such an issue before marketers selling diet books. Everyone started blaming an inability to modify lifestyle on emotions. When everyone was so grateful losing weight strain was amplified. Now people are deluded into believing everyone appreciates untamed harassment and abuse.

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