Obesity

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hobbitonabike

Formerly EbonyWillow
I hated PE at school. All football, hockey, etc. I am absolutely not competitive and team sports like these have never appealled to me and I grew to hate PE and by definition all sports. I was always th elast to be picked for teams as I was rubbish, probably due to a genuine lack of interest in kicking a bag of wind around a muddy field in shorts in January while being pelted with hailstones. It put me off any kind of sport for years to come. I was labelled as a lazy lump by the PE teachers.

Yet I have always been happy to walk all over the side of a mountain or in recent years cycle 100+ miles per week. I believe it is important to help people find an activity they enjoy and encourage them to do it rather than force them to take part in games in which they have no interest.

To me thatbis thr key to success. I never liked team games really and though I was fairly enthusiastic I was picked on for being fat. Looking back at pics I wasn't fat but I later became so because I believed the bullies. I spent years horse riding before eventually doing nothing for a long time. After having my children I hit size 18/20 and deciding enough was enough I started running. I still have weight to lose but am now a 12/14 and run or cycle most days. I beliece children should be taught about health and enjoying being active. The number of kids in the primary school where I work that have called themselves fat and ugly breaks my heart. We need to show our kids a more positive way of life! And the key is finding what they enjoy and running with it.
 

MarkF

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
The "problem" might be all over the UK, but IMO, it's concentrated on the Lincolnshire coast! ^_^ I don't eat meat or chips so it was harder to find a something for me to eat than when I toured Holland, it was also a salad free zone, like Scotland.

I can split my friends/acquaintances into 2 camps, those that played football till they no longer could (a surprising number of whom then took up cycling), and those that never played at all. I am 50 and like a very large % of the former am still the same shape as I was in my 20's, a very large % of the latter are fat and unhealthy.

I coach a junior team, a bullied fattie joined us 2 years ago at 13. He's no longer a fattie and his team mates became his friends and soon stopped the bullying, it's remarkable to see how happy and confident he is now.
 

Leodis

Veteran
Location
Moortown, Leeds
I hated PE at school. All football, hockey, etc. I am absolutely not competitive and team sports like these have never appealled to me and I grew to hate PE and by definition all sports. I was always th elast to be picked for teams as I was rubbish, probably due to a genuine lack of interest in kicking a bag of wind around a muddy field in shorts in January while being pelted with hailstones. It put me off any kind of sport for years to come. I was labelled as a lazy lump by the PE teachers.

Yet I have always been happy to walk all over the side of a mountain or in recent years cycle 100+ miles per week. I believe it is important to help people find an activity they enjoy and encourage them to do it rather than force them to take part in games in which they have no interest.

I would have liked my personal PE choice to have been female mud wrestling.
 
Sometimes its just lazy parents, at littleuns school loads of parents who live near us drive the 10 minute walk to the school, why? sometimes it must take them 5 minutes to find a parking space
 

Fnaar

Smutmaster General
Location
Thumberland
Sometimes its just lazy parents, at littleuns school loads of parents who live near us drive the 10 minute walk to the school, why? sometimes it must take them 5 minutes to find a parking space

I used to know someone who would drive her kids 500 yards to school, stop on the zigzags to let them out, then drive home again. Silly mare.
 
I used to know someone who would drive her kids 500 yards to school, stop on the zigzags to let them out, then drive home again. Silly mare.

I can believe it... sad isn't it.... as my wife doesn't drive when I'm at work at weekends.... little-un pretty much walks anywhere they need to go
 

Leodis

Veteran
Location
Moortown, Leeds
Parents will not say "NO", thats the issue. Parents pushing chips through the school gates because their children will not eat food put in front of them.
 
Kids at 6 or 7 don't really have access to food that isn't given to them, unless it is a medical condition then I believe it to be 100% parents fault through wrong food and total dependence on car for short journeys.....

Rant over!
 

ayceejay

Guru
Location
Rural Quebec
I hate to sound like a supermarket trolley Nazi but - whenever I go I seem to end up behind a trolley full of non food: crisps, cookies, cola, cake, white bread etc.. It is no surprise that this shopper is morbidly obese and the connection is obvious. I don't think diet is the only cause though as the sedentary life style most people lead today is in stark contrast to how it once was. Getting back to food I would recommend that ccers read food labels and learn how to interpret them and to eat as little processed food as possible.
 
A work colleague (who was overweight) once came from the shop with a tub of Ben and Jerrys ice cream and ate the lot in one go..... I said do you know how many calories were in that, he replied 200 it says so here, I picked up the carton and pointed out that that was for 1 serving and he had just eaten 10 servings...
 

LCpl Boiled Egg

Three word soundbite
A work colleague (who was overweight) once came from the shop with a tub of Ben and Jerrys ice cream and ate the lot in one go..... I said do you know how many calories were in that, he replied 200 it says so here, I picked up the carton and pointed out that that was for 1 serving and he had just eaten 10 servings...

The best thing is to put all the cookie dough lumps on the upturned lid and eat them in one go at the end... ^_^

Been there, done that, but wouldn't do it now...

"When you're younger you can eat what you like, drink what you like, and still climb into your 26" waist trousers and zip them closed. Then you reach that age, 24-25, your muscles give up, they wave a little white flag, and without any warning at all you're suddenly a fat b'stard"
 

MarkF

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
I used to know someone who would drive her kids 500 yards to school, stop on the zigzags to let them out, then drive home again. Silly mare.

Yes, there is a new estate half a mile from our local primary, as far as I can see, hardly any kids walk to school and the roads, driveways and yellow lines are cluttered with cars. The council has just invested in a Google type car that takes instant pic/evidence with follow up fines, it is targetting schools. I thought this was great till I read 70% of last years fines were "uncollectable".

Reminds me, my daughter has always walked or cycled, when she complained I'd tell her that if she got a lift she'd end up fat and with a face like a cat's bottom, like Grace (a tubster in her class). When she was maybe 6 she was invited to Grace's for tea and proceeded to tell Grace's mum why her daughter was fat and had a face like a cat's bottom. :sad:
 

Fnaar

Smutmaster General
Location
Thumberland
Reminds me, my daughter has always walked or cycled, when she complained I'd tell her that if she got a lift she'd end up fat and with a face like a cat's bottom, like Grace (a tubster in her class). When she was maybe 6 she was invited to Grace's for tea and proceeded to tell Grace's mum why her daughter was fat and had a face like a cat's bottom. :sad:

:laugh:
 
At my children's primary school, the wall bars in the gym/assembly hall were not used because they might cause an injury. This decision was taken (many years ago now) when my middle child was in Year 6 and my youngest in Year 3. There was almost no organised competitive sport at the school under the new (still current) head. Lots of robust strategies she was very much looking to take forward in tandem with the governors to meet targets put in place during thorough and exhaustive review processes... But no sport.

I drove past the school today, to collect someone and their luggage from the station. It was turfing-out time. The road was chock-full of all sorts of cars and 4x4s. There were blimpy little lardbutt fatulocities bimbling awkwardly from school gate to vehicle with chin-rich parents waddling behind. I think that once a child (or adult) has to swing one thigh around the other to walk, we have got beyond the point where medical professionals ought to be involved. But I'm told I'm a fascist about these things.

I do not know why it is so (the fat thing, not my social fascism).

I used to volunteer at a local primary. I cycled. I was warned in advance by the Head that if I arrived sans casque by bicycle, I would not be allowed in. I was a f*cking volunteer!! I saw no logic in the policy, but I acquiesced and spent many happy hours working with kids who found language and grammar a challenge. I hope I made a net contribution. Many of them were tubbuloid blimpos. They thought it funny that I rode to their school. There were beautiful bike racks. I only ever saw one bicycle in the racks apart from mine. Would it have been more without the helmet rule and the lifestyle example of a head teacher cast a very well-fed shadow?

I am as pleased as Punch that my own children like to ride and run and swim and throw themselves into the sea from insane heights... But I fear that as a nation we are becoming fat, physically idle and slightly lumpenly immobile. I do not have a solution, apart from trying to encourage my own (now rather older and independent) children to get their kicks by rushing about and being fit.

After careful analysis, I blame society. But not myself, although I am (technically) a part of the whole.

Carry on.
 
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