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Coach · 06-06-2014, 08:50 AM

I'd like to comment on this just because my coworkers and I were kind of touching on the topic yesterday.

A few years ago I dropped 50 lbs from 225 to 175. I'm 6ft tall and have no idea whether or not I would have been considered "obese" but I was definitely overweight and out of shape. I was excersising every weekday (although nothing too strenuous; 30 min on bike and chin ups/pushups/situps) as well as was very concious of my eating habits, which was definitely the hardest change.

After I got to where I wanted to be, I continued my working out and with the healthy eating for about a year or so afterwards and even took it further to boxing training to build myself a bit. But about the same time I started boxing, I started to realize that during my weight loss I had seemingly jumpstarted my metabolism and bad food wasn't affecting me as much as it was before. So I started to not worry about it so much and also started to make money following graduating from university and so had more options for eating when I was too lazy to make my own meal.

Over the last 12 months i've gained back about 20 lbs. Partly I blame my job for making me sit for 9-10 hours a day, and then my outside volunteer activites that kept me so busy some nights I would be on my way home at 9pm without having eaten since breakfast and McDonalds or the like seemed like the best option. Even after I realized I was putting on weight again I was having a tough time halting the glutony. I have just recently (in the last few weeks) started to make a concious effort to eat healthy once again, but it is still difficult as I find myself craving ice cream and things like that after dinner all the time, or big fatty muffins in the morning. I have never really looked much into the definition of obesity and where the line is between disease and lack of self control. Is the lack of self control THE disease? Is it an addiction to food? Are people that are obese also more suceptible to other "controllable" illnesses like alcoholism or cigarette/drug addicition?

06-06-2014, 08:50 AM	#30
Coach Franchise Player Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Vancouver Exp:	I'd like to comment on this just because my coworkers and I were kind of touching on the topic yesterday. A few years ago I dropped 50 lbs from 225 to 175. I'm 6ft tall and have no idea whether or not I would have been considered "obese" but I was definitely overweight and out of shape. I was excersising every weekday (although nothing too strenuous; 30 min on bike and chin ups/pushups/situps) as well as was very concious of my eating habits, which was definitely the hardest change. After I got to where I wanted to be, I continued my working out and with the healthy eating for about a year or so afterwards and even took it further to boxing training to build myself a bit. But about the same time I started boxing, I started to realize that during my weight loss I had seemingly jumpstarted my metabolism and bad food wasn't affecting me as much as it was before. So I started to not worry about it so much and also started to make money following graduating from university and so had more options for eating when I was too lazy to make my own meal. Over the last 12 months i've gained back about 20 lbs. Partly I blame my job for making me sit for 9-10 hours a day, and then my outside volunteer activites that kept me so busy some nights I would be on my way home at 9pm without having eaten since breakfast and McDonalds or the like seemed like the best option. Even after I realized I was putting on weight again I was having a tough time halting the glutony. I have just recently (in the last few weeks) started to make a concious effort to eat healthy once again, but it is still difficult as I find myself craving ice cream and things like that after dinner all the time, or big fatty muffins in the morning. I have never really looked much into the definition of obesity and where the line is between disease and lack of self control. Is the lack of self control THE disease? Is it an addiction to food? Are people that are obese also more suceptible to other "controllable" illnesses like alcoholism or cigarette/drug addicition? __________________