| d21lewis said: We're all pretty much born on the same level playing field aside from birth defects, etc. Why is a guy that starts off thin, becomes incredibly obese, and then loses a lot of weight (and is still kinda overweight) considered somewhat of a hero and a role model and the guy that showed discipline their entire life and is in great shape kinda ignored? |
First of all, there's no equivalence between the "discipline" of staying thin if you're already thin and the "discipline" of becoming thin when you were fat beforehand. It's like a person who never starts smoking complaining that it's not really that hard for a person to quit smoking, on the basis that it wasn't hard to not start smoking. And this is from a guy who, although not particularly lean through his life (getting there now, though), would never have been called "fat", and also who has never smoked.
Also, we're not all pretty much born on the same level playing field. Each person's body reacts differently to various inputs. Some people are naturally thinner than others. It's not birth defects, but natural variation. You may have heard of "endomorph", "ectomorph", and "mesomorph" - these are broad classifications that demonstrate my point.
And third, the reason why they're treated like "heroes", etc, is that doing so (that is, treating them like heroes) can help motivate others to also lose fat.
Also note the difference between "weight" and "fat". It's an important distinction, and are unfortunately used interchangeably too often.
Finally, since when have people who are in great shape been "kinda ignored"?
