Gym and dieting

Some people ask ‘why do you go to the gym?’  I feel like saying ‘no, why is it you don’t go to the gym?’

We are far from our cave man days where everything we did involved some physical work.  These days we get our food from shops, so it’s already been picked from the trees, slaughtered at the farms etc..  We didn’t have to drag it miles to take it home, we didn’t spend time bashing rock together to make the fire to cook it on..  So basically all the physical things we used to do are obsolete.

Unless you play a sport, or have a manual labour intensive job there is very little exercise left to be done in our every day lives really..  I don’t call walking to and from the car, or walking round a shop exercise.  We eat so much junk without even realising it and yet we exercise so little.  So it’s no wonder we as a population are getting fatter.

So, why do you ask me to justify going to exercise a little? Am I not just making the most of my health?  I am fortunate to not have any disabilities that prevent me from running like crazy on a treadmill, or lifting a few weights.  It would be difficult to not get fat with our ever lazier lifestyles if I didn’t go to the gym.  I would be the first to stick my hand up and admit I eat more than I need to, more than can be said about some of you closet binge eaters out there.

Why do some people pretend to themselves that they are not fat?  Or that there is nothing wrong with being fat?

I know some people out there have conditions which make them put on / maintain excess weight, but this is directed to those who are just plain LAZY.  Those who say ‘can’t be bothered’, ‘another time’, ‘next month I’ll start’, ‘after this last cake’, ‘I’m happy like this’ etc etc.  Please 

So why, if I know I would get fat because I eat lots, why do I get asked why I go to the gym?  Or, get told ‘you don’t need to go to the gym, you’re not fat’..  I thought the whole point was to not get fat!?  Do I need to wait until I am fat before going?  Didn’t think so.

So, I think I’ll just carry on the way I am..  I’ll go to the gym, not become fat, do a little more to help my body weather the storm that is excess food.

Ok so some of you will be thinking now, ‘well just eat less’.  Ha!  Nice one.  I never diet to lose weight!  I will sometimes have a healthy eating diet where I strip out all the sugary fatty foods as a sort of ‘detox’..  But, I am not going to stop eating to lose weight!  So, even if I did eat only healthy things, eating lots of them will inevitably make me gain weight if I didn’t exercise.  So…  Since I don’t play a sport, I don’t have a labour intensive job - I go to the gym to keep things balanced.

Why don’t you?

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