Are people this ignorant?

If you think that's bad, just the other day someone was trying to tell me there is no discernible difference between Sora and Dura Ace components.

People are not willing to work at losing weight. They want instant gratification. If they can't lose 10 lbs per week, then weight loss must be hard for them.

It's all a part of the denial process, the "It's not my fault I'm fat" thing.  I used to be one of these people, but I *knew* deep down what I had to do to lose weight. I just had to come to terms with it and my eating. It's sad really. Most folks who are that overweight never do get to that point. I'm one of the fortunate.

I don't disagree with you, but they're just rationalizing.  Very powerful human emotion.  They know they're in the tank and they're just verbalizing some excuses that they know on some level are BS, but make them feel better.

For EG, I'm virtually addicted to a 20 oz. Mountain Dew in the morning.  I gave it up for lent.  Went smooth.  As Easter Sunday approached, I could hear the "addiction" talking in my head, working out all kinds of scenarios why I can/deserve/should have a few MDs again.  Were I with another MD drinker, I'd probably say them out loud, despite how stupid they sound. 

Yes, they are.  My MIL is like that.  Just saw her last Sun and she is now even heavier yet she supposedly is exersizing on a regular basis.  There is a problem though, she has convinced herself that if the food is "healthy" that she can eat as much as she wants and binges on it. 

Additionally, it takes alot of time (my experience indicates at least several months) of consistent intense exersize (I am not talking 20 minutes on liesure ride or walk) to get the metabolism going at a higher rate.  Even then if you want to lose weight, you still have to control the calories. 

There will never be a shortage of people in denial.  

I agree with this too.  It seems that there are more and more heavy children and teens.  When I was a child and teen just 15-25 years ago, heavy children and teens were quite rare.  When I look at a pack of teens and often children today, it does not look so rare anymore. 

what gets me is these are the people that will say,,, "i'm just big framed or big boned" 

please I've been in one manner or another of the radiology field for 20 some years.  When I 'm looking at x-rays, CT's, MRI's  [while there is actually an extremly small % like this]  it's just not true..  I'm looking at a lot of excess body tissue on the apx same size bone structure as a thin person..  

auugh !!!! there is nothing that gets me rolling my eyes more than a 5' 3"  280lb person claiming to be big boned.. Dude we don't have a needle long enough to get through all the fat to hit your bone..    Auuggh !!

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There is no correlation that eating before bed gains weight.  The only thing eating before going to bed has been shown to do is lead to more cases of indigestion in the middle of the night (mainly because you are lying down to digest instead of standing).

Your stomach doesn't care if you are awake or asleep, it is still doing it's job.  AND you still have 6 - 8 hours of digestion before you are eating again.

To Ranger?  Your co-worker is that ignorant ....... you are correct there.

Rather than being angry about it, can we teach instead?

As somebody who still has a little extra weight to get rid of from having been off for a few months, and who used to have more of it, I can't see this type of stuff without thinking that the anger is misplaced and could be hurtful to some of the true "Beginner triathletes" out there, and make them feel unwelcome.  Yeah, it's hard to hear people justify and make excuses, but take your extra energy and put it into motivating and plain talk, not cut downs. 

I like what whoever said above about responding to stuff like that with "call me and we can go to the gym."  We are facing an epidemic in this country, but it's going to take a lot of positive small steps to get us out of it. 

Your digestion may slow down a bit, but whatever you put in your stomach will still be gone by the morning.  Especially considering that you have more time between meals to digest things.

Logically, would it makes sense that your stomach shuts down for the night when you go to sleep?  Your heart doesn't, your mind doesn't, your digestive system doesn't.