I'm being honest when I tell you that I don't live a very healthy lifestyle. I'm overweight, I exercise very little and I don't eat very healthy. But you know what? I don't give a damn! You know why? Because it's my life and my choice. And quite frankly, I'm sick and tired of people telling me how to live and trying to impose a certain lifestyle on me.
I have my reasons, of course, for why I choose to be fat. First of all, I like to eat and I like to eat things that taste good, which means plenty of fatty foods and plenty of calories. Why don't I eat more healthy stuff, like fruits and vegetables? Because healthy food tastes like crap! Experts are always debating why people don't eat healthier. They usually point to things like not being taught to make healthy choices when we're young. Did it ever occur to these "experts" that people, especially children, don't eat healthy because healthy food doesn't taste as good as unhealthy food? Seriously. When you give a 10 year old a choice between some salad and a nice, juicy cheeseburger, what do you think he or she is going to choose? The fact of the matter is that we grow up learning to eat unhealthy, not because our parents didn't teach us any better, but because our taste buds tell us that the unhealthier food just tastes better.
Now some people will tell me that if I don't want to eat healthy, I should at least exercise. But of course, I have my reasons for not doing that, too. My biggest reason? Exercise is just plain boring and tedious. A lot of people like to brag about how often they go to the gym. Personally, I won't set foot in a gym. I honestly don't even know how other people can stand it. If I want to be in a place where a bunch of people are sweating and stinking all over the place, I'll just take the subway during rush hour. At least on the subway I usually don't have to listen to the crappy music that they often pump into the gyms these days. I do know that you don't have to necessarily go to a gym to exercise, but I've never been too into sports or any other outdoor activities, and I'm not going to apologize for that. I've gone through stints in the past where I exercised and even went to the gym, but I never felt good about it, so I didn't continue. By the way, for those of you who think you feel good after a workout, you're deluding yourself. You're just making yourself think you feel good after exercising, because that's what the hacks in the health and fitness industry want you to think. And they're raking in tons of money making you think that way.
I'm not against exercise itself. It's just that there are other things I would rather be doing with my time. And clearly, there are a lot of people who feel the same way, otherwise we wouldn't be bombarded with one study after another saying that we're too fat and don't exercise enough. The truth is that many of us would rather play Call of Duty, surf the web, or chat with our Facebook friends simply because we find doing these things a lot more fun than exercising. Plus, aren't our lives stressful enough that we have to add the sweat and pain of exercise to them? Believe me, many people who've just come home after a long day at the office just want to sit on the couch and relax. And I don't blame them one bit.
Now I hear a lot of folks, including the people who criticize my lifestyle on a regular basis, saying that I'm on the fast-track to an early death. Yes, one would think that the people who live a healthier lifestyle will outlive the ones who don't, but this isn't necessarily the case. It is true that a healthy diet and lots of exercise might help, and even I have my limits as to how unhealthy I'm prepared to be. For instance, I'm not about to eat one of those donut burgers that they sell at the Exhibition. But personally, I think that our fates are ultimately decided by our genes, which means that if your DNA is a recipe for dying young, then there may be very little you can do about it other than try your best to live life to its fullest. I've heard of plenty of cases where people who were living a lot healthier than I do now suddenly pass away because they just drew a bad hand when it came to their genetics. I've also heard of and even witnessed cases of people who didn't live very healthy lifestyles, yet they lived well into their 80s.
I understand that nowadays it's very trendy to live a healthy lifestyle, which is why I see a lot of people who do so bragging about it. Let them brag. If they want to be fit and proud, that's fine, because I'm fat and proud!
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