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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
In my opinion people are far too concerned about the numbers on a scale.
I haven't weighted myself in years. If I was too guess I say I am around 190-200 lbs.
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Not directed at the UCB but I'd suggest people (as a whole) probably shouldn't be actively ignoring what the scale is telling you. Cleary UCB isn't saying that but if you don't look at what is going on, how are you supposed to adjust/have a proper feedback loop. No sane person is going to think that a good financial plan is to never look at your bank account or finances.
I understand that it might not feel good to see the numbers/reality but you're putting yourself behind already by ignoring it.
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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
You realize Canada is in the top 10 got fattest nations and actually relatively close to the US?
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But that's the thing. We've basically accepted and normalized being fat.
Our comparisons are against the most egregious or worse off samples. You always hear things like "Well, I am under/near/sorta close to the average". But the average here you are comparing against is already overweight if not obese. Complaints about the fat/skinny minority about being unreasonable examples or that they must puke after every meal. Hell, it's now a thing to be aggressively proud of being fat.
It's the same reason you see BMI complaints all the time. Sure, there are rare specific cases that the measurement may not fit or evaluate quite well. But people use that to try to dismiss the fact that the number keeps growing and growing and growing.
It's like standing inside your home complaining that the wallpaper on the one wall doesn't match that well with the lamp - when your entire house is in fact full engulfed in flames and is starting to slide off the side of a cliff. You might be right but you're missing the
big picture.