Buy Walking VideosOverweight Feel Life Is ‘Worthless’
I used to take surveys in my free time. I volunteered to answer questions about products and commercials and movie trailers. This article is about a survey of 4000 women and 1000 men. When I read the findings, (83% said they suffered from deep “self-loathing”, 91% felt depressed and 79% said they felt “utter despair”) I wonder how the survey was worded. How can I judge whether this was an accurate survey without seeing what questions they asked?
The Mail Online – Overweight feel life is ‘worthless’
I remember taking a survey about socks. Never once was I give the option, “I don’t care about my socks. I just make sure they match my clothing. I don’t care if they are long or short or are based on the holidays. I don’t freakin’ care!” That was how I felt at the end of the survey, but there was absolutely no way to tell them that because the test was designed poorly. They ended up finding out that I wear short white socks for exercise and black crew socks to match my shoes. They didn’t even ask me how often I wear socks, which is never in the summer and mostly under boots in the winter.
I wonder how this survey, which tells me that overweight people feel like “life is not worth living,” was written. I wonder what the motivation behind a survey like that would be. Are they trying to tell me that I am worthless unless I conform to their standards? They didn’t even define overweight. As I have said many times, overweight is a far cry from obese, but it seems like everyone is using it interchangeably.
Don’t pay any mind to news articles like this one. They are not scientific. They are not even repeatable. They have no bearing on your life. The first step toward getting a healthy body is getting a healthy mind. You deserve love and cherishing. Make sure you love and cherish yourself enough to protect yourself from these surveys. Don’t let them play with your head.
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May 20th, 2014 at 11:24 am
Life is not worth living when you are overweight. I have lost the same 60 lbs. six times, reached my goal. The amount of food that is required to keep me thin never, ever, ever, satisfies. I have looked good for several years, exercised regularly, ate exactly what the nutritionist recommended, was constantly complimented and I was constantly hungry. I am sick of being miserable and hungry and slim and miserable and not hungry and overweight. I give up.
I have counted calories, done weight watchers, nutri system, slim fast. the only thing that I had any long term success was Atkins and meridia. I only felt normal when I took meridia but that is considered unacceptable.
Do not tell me just accept yourself, that is a bunch of crap, if you think it is possible to accept yourself when you are in constant hip and leg pain from being overweight and wearing large clothes hardly being able to turn over in bed you are nuts..
I give up, I have had a ton of therapy and no matter what the hell I do, I AM HUNGRY. THE AMOUNT OF FOOD IT TAKES TO SATISFY ME MAKES ME FAT. THE AMOUNT OF FOOD IT TAKES TO KEEP ME SLIM LEAVES ME WANTING CONSTANTLY.