Negative Emotions Outweigh Intent to Exercise at Health Clubs

Though "exercise" is a terribly inefficient and ineffective way to control weight, the poor, poor fatso babies suffer from psychotrauma.

"Time and time again, it has been documented that regular exercise has many health benefits including lowering risks associated with the comorbidities of obesity. With only 30% of Americans trying to lose weight meeting the National Institutes of Health exercise guidelines of 300 minutes/week, a study in the January/February 2010 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior explores the paradox that exists -- an antidote for obesity and its comorbidities is exercise, but the majority of obese Americans do not exercise...

The researchers found overweight individuals believed exercise improved appearance and self image more than normal weight individuals. In addition, overweight individuals felt more embarrassed and intimidated about exercising, exercising around young people, exercising around fit people, and about health club salespeople than individuals of normal weight. Overweight and normal weight individuals felt the same about exercising with the opposite sex, complicated exercise equipment, exercise boredom, and intention to exercise. The study interestingly found that the demographics of older age and overweight Caucasians (versus overweight non-Caucasians) had more of an effect on exercise intent than did weight. Most notably, the heavier the subject's weight, the lower his or her perception of health. In other words, for the overweight, sedentary person, the negative emotions associated with health club exercise may be stronger in controlling regular exercise than the intellectual facts."

It is all their fault that they got fat and that they are too embarrassed to go to a fitness facility. (There is no such thing as a "health club.")

While many of the rest of us have to live with our poor decision-making and pay the price, the fat are among the exempt as the rest of us are expected to pay for them.

Stop the madness and fight back.

This is an ongoing problem and we need to realize that the solution is found within the fat person and nowhere else.