s.a.f said:
GeminiX said:
Have to agree; for me at least being obese is far worse than hairloss and is *much* harder to "fix" than people who have never had weight issues realise.
Hmm I dont see how?
Fat guy - Diet and exercise = WILL Loose weight fact.
Bald guy - (????) No cure as yet.
At least the fat guy has an option, take any obese guy give them a good diet and an exercise program. They will slowly get results, its up to them to maintain the effort. Nobody is born to be obese you make yourself obese, and it does'nt happen overnight it takes years of poor living being greedy and lazy.
Bald guy goes bald through no fault of his own there is no way he can physicly work to fix it. If all it took to get hair was to live a better lifestyle I'd be a NW1 right now.
And right there is the problem...
*Everyone* knows it's just about diet right?
It's just a simple matter of cutting back on the calories, doing a bit of exercise and *bam*, slim and fit.
The reality is that the reason that a lot of overweight people feel so incredibly low about themselves is that *they* know all they have to do is sort it out themselves. For me personally that was a much harder thing to overcome than hair-loss; hair-loss I had no control over so felt no guilt, no blame. Hair loss was not my fault, so even though it was horribly unfair, it was just something that happens, like rainy days or stubbing your toe.
Being an obese, fat cow *was* completely my own doing, *I* chose to eat far too much, and yet I could not stop myself. Eating was comforting when I felt low, then I felt even worse afterwards because of the guilt. The psychological trauma and depression that you get from being the cause of your own destruction and not being able to do a thing to help yourself is an entirely different league to finding acceptance for something which was just a matter of chance.
*edit* - other peoples opinions may well differ from my own, but to be fair I've experienced the brutal reality of both, first hand