I have a client who's BMI puts him in the 'obese' range but he's tall, 52 years old and very muscular he plays a lot of squash, tennis and cricket nobody would think of him as being fat even
The BMI calculation can be extremely misleading and flat out wrong for very muscular/strong or athletic people. But for the majority it's a good base line and marker
I worked with a girl recently who fits the same profile as your stepdaughter's husband.She must've been in the 25-30 stone bracket and just ate all day.She worked on the admin side of the Warehouse I was working in,a desk job with very little activity.Any exertion she did happen to make,even just going 50 yards to use the toilet puffed her out and she had to stop to draw breath. At breakfast time she'd come to the canteen and eat double what everyone else ate,then she'd buy a couple of grab bags of crisps,various bars of chocolate(her desk drawer was rammed with these 4 packs of mars bars,twix,bountys etc) to see her through to lunch,then rinse and repeat.Looking at it from an outside view it was just gluttony/greed but I suppose it could have some psychological link? I did feel for her because there was a lot of gossip and cruel jokes about her,more from her female colleagues and a lot was said about her personal hygiene.I have very little sense of smell but apparently she stunk of urine and other bodily odours... A real shame to see a female in her 30's in such an obese state and I often wondered why or if her parents had tried to speak to her about the possible dangers she faced in terms of diabetes and coronary issues? If she were my Daughter I'd have just had to address it,not in a cruel way but more out of concern for her future...Very Sad.
All my friends say that my step daughter's husband has mental issues around food. In other regards he's normal and sensible. When he gets in from work and after he has food he sits in front of the TV and within a few minutes he falls asleep.
Another one I've only heard recently was that your waist, in CM, should be less than half your height, in CM. Although I'm not convinced that's much better as it'd suggest anything up to a 36" waist would be fine for me, but that's the exact reason I started these injections!!
IMO "mental issues" is the wrong term. You wouldn't say someone who smokes has "mental issues" yet they're very much addicted to something that's proven to increase your chances of getting life ending illnesses. I totally agree there's a psychological factor at play - for me, my parents aren't large but I was brain washed from an early age to have 3 meals a day, and as kids you have snacks in-between, that habit was so ingrained it's been difficult to break - which is exactly what I hope the injections do for me.
Besides being fat my step daughter's husband has open sores on one of his feet and he has a bad back. My wife stries to raise concerns with her daughter but she's not receptive to her efforts. He's 45 and my wife gives him 10 years at the most. He insists he doesnt have diabetes!
I don't think a 36" waist is unusual in the male population is it? I'm currently somewhere around a 38" waist but I know myself I need to lose a bit of weight.I'm not active at the moment and due to the pain in my hips and spine I can't exercise very much at all. I had some bloods done in September of last year and in amongst other issues,my cholesterol had risen and my blood sugars were 'borderline pre-diabetes ' levels.I cut out sugar,sweet things and fizzy drinks and lost 7lb in 5 weeks,went back to see the nurse and my bad cholesterol had reduced by quite some amount.Unfortunately I've been eating rubbish again over Xmas and New Year and the weights going on again....I know that and will find the will power to go again,I think personally a huge part of it is just that...Willpower?
Somebody who smokes excessively has mental issues around smoking. Somebody who takes drugs excessively has mental issues around drug taking. You can call them psychological if you want but I think it has the same meaning. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/mental-disorders includes eating disorders as a mental issue.
Will power is a huge part, I can go through stages where all i want to do no matter how tired I am, my travel schedule etc is go to the gym and eat very clean. But then something suddenly switches in me going the complete opposite and I really have to fight internally both to work out and to not eat rubbish. I've tried to figure it out over the years and see if I can find triggers etc but nothing seems to add up or cause it to change
thats very common its why motivation cant be relied upon, its self discipline that is the ultimate key when its dark, and cold and rainy, and you just cba going for that 1 hour workout etc similar to feeling meh and ordering a kebab instead of a healthy meal you need to do it anyway
Definitely, the self discipline has to be top notch if you really want to succeed. One thing I try to live by, is if I eat something unhealthy, a take away big etc. the next meal must be something clean as it's so easy to fall into bad hobbits
Not to worry you, Peter, but if he's got open sores on his feet that aren't healing, the implication is that his circulation isn't working well - a factor in diabetes... He should go to a qualified person for a check.
I guess it depends on your height, right? I'm not tall so 36" on me is very much on the chunky size. My goal is to get back down to 32" which is what I was in until my mid-20s, but to do that I suspect I'm going to need to exercise more (rather than just eat less) to get rid of the harder to shift rolls.
