Hey, stupid, wanna lose some weight?
Popular advice for the thoughtless:
Exercise to lose weight!
My thoughts:
Eat better to exercise better, so as to be stronger, to be faster, and to have greater endurance—don’t exercise to offset the effects of poor eating (while continuing to eat poorly).
Besides, why would a sane person want to lose weight? Gaining weight is hard work—it takes extra time and money to either gorge oneself on an excess of good food or to deliberately eat junk the FDA pushes (low-calorie, high-grain, seed oils). It is hard to gain excess weight by eating high-quality, high-calorie foods because they satiate quickly, and for a long time too, so you don’t have cravings and any need for snacks. Further, high-quality foods energize so you can put that energy to good use, rather than sitting around being drowsy.
So, after making all those sacrifices to gain the excess weight—limiting physical activity and gorging oneself or eating junk—one is supposed to lose it? Where is any sense in that?
