Jay wrote:This statement is a cop out. Not every mom works 2 jobs, some work 1 or none. Despite working 2 jobs, you still have to go to the grocery store, so the only difference there is the choices you make in food, not the amount of time spent doing it.
Gym's aren't that expensive. I pay 25 a month for my membership to 24hr fitness and that gives me access to every 24hr fitness in the country. Most of the ladies I see there spend maybe an hour a day there 3 days a week and look good. They're not sculpted like Maria Kang but they are in good shape, healthy and attractive. Also, taking walks around your neighborhood (if it's safe to do) or going for a 15-30 minute jog is free.
As for food, you don't need to eat at Whole Foods to eat healthy. Local produce and farmer's markets are pretty inexpensive. When I wanna eat healthy, I think I average paying 4-6 bucks a meal by cooking it myself. That's with lean grass-fed beef, salads, fish, chicken, whatever I want. I get that not everyone can cook, but tossing a salad with light dressing and chopped veggies or tossing a grilled chicken onto a foreman grill isn't hard. Sorry dude, but blaming the economy for lack of fit living is a stretch.
I think you are missing what I said.
Obviously not every mom works two jobs. However the challenge was obviously for the overweight women not the in shape lawyer/doctor wife types.
Here in the Midwest majority of the overweight women are middle class and/or poor. They all usually work, poor often work more than one low pay jobs.
When your kid is older you will realize just how much attention kids demand from parents. And a woman usually going to end up cooking for the family, cleaning, doing laundry for 5, helping kids with school work, giving baths, etc... And that is after full day of work. I swear my wife only works one job and she deserves a monument for all the shit she does after work. I try to help but between working 55 hours' having teleconference meetings at night, doing homework for my Masters and dealing with other shit we have to take turn which one of us actually gets to go to a gym on any given night. I can't imagine what it would be like with 3 kids.
As far as the cost of the gym goes I was not referring to money but time. Cooking for 5 is a time consuming process and good luck getting kids to eat salads. That is why so many parents get pizza or take out or even happy meals. Not because they are lazy, simply because they just don't have time and don't know that that shit is poison.
As far as cost of clean healthy food though, I disagree. It might be better where you live but here in Michigan I can't simply go to a farmer's markets because they are open on Wednesdays from 9:30 until 12:30. I don't know which city idiot thought that that was the good time for that permit, but everyone I know works at that time. My only option is Whole Foods and that store is not cheap at all. On a family of 3 we probably spend good 800 each month there. Not complaining cause I won't eat the pesticide/disease ridden hormonal shit they sell in Walmart regardless but not every family can afford that.
Anyway the point was that she was challenging people to look like her' which people can't do simply by eating healthy, it requires strict regiment and hours in gym, and I pointed out that her expectations were unrealistic.
Finally my last line was not about economy but about industry. Food Industry has no interest in consumers health, they care about profit. How long the product can stay on shelf and how offer people will buy it is what's important, that is why everything I'd filled to the brim with salt, high fructose corn sirup and canola oil, and for good addictive measures packed with aspartame. And of course same companies later publish died articles where they advertise their bullshit diet plans with their bullshit meal replacement shakes and bars or the whole control portion meals shipped to home for an astronomic price.
Anyway done ranting, if what I said didn't make sense it's because I am on Dilaudid for the pain. I had a surgery yesterday and am now hanging out at the hospital