Or you could buy chicken and frozen broccoli and make a healthy meal for about $2 and less than 10 minutes of prep/cook time. But that would be too much work for lazy fatties.I can buy microwaveable garbage meal for like $4. It's around twice that to buy ingredients to cool a healthy meal.
Not only that but someone at work made me think about it differently when they proposed that poor people who grew up with very little will overeat to make up for those times in their life.I think for a lot of overweight people, food is something happy. Work sucks, life sucks, whatever, but food is delicious and provides a burst of happiness every single time.
Or you could buy chicken and frozen broccoli and make a healthy meal for about $2 and less than 10 minutes of prep/cook time. But that would be too much work for lazy fatties.
This. Also have to consider how much your time is worth. Cooking takes a lot of time vs something you can throw in the microwave.
Been trying to cook more myself but it's a hard thing to discipline myself to do because of how much work and time it takes. That and I don't know what half the ingredients even are when I look at a recipe. Then I say FTS and order pizza.
It all boils down to fatties being inherently lazy. It's too much work to "cook" for 5 minutes when they could push a button on a TV dinner and go sit on the couch and watch TV for 5 minutes while it zaps up their food.You have to find the right recipes. Example a boneless chicken breast stuffed with a few asparagus stalks and Mozzarella cheese doesn't take long to throw together. I make them 3 at a time. Sear them in the skillet then bake at 425 for a half hour. Pull them out serve one for dinner. Refrigerate the other two for rewarming later in the week. Only takes about 20 minutes in the oven to warm one.
There are good things that are easy to make with all fresh ingredients and don't cost a ridiculous amount of money. Once you get used to making them you get really efficient and time is much less of a factor. My problem is i am only cooking for one and sometimes it is hard to buy fresh in small enough quantities.
It all boils down to fatties being inherently lazy. It's too much work to "cook" for 5 minutes when they could push a button on a TV dinner and go sit on the couch and watch TV for 5 minutes while it zaps up their food.
We already have multiple people in this thread saying how much easier it is to order a pizza or microwave food than it is to cook. And it's definitely true - it's simply more convenient.I disagree. Cooking has become a lost art with the advent of fast food and prepared microwaveable whatever. I don't think lazy has anything to do with it. So many thngs are available prepared that many people just don't know any other way. Sort of like it is with dishwashing. I grew up doing dishes as a chore in the days before every house an apartment had an automatic dishwasher. My teenage boys chores included loading and runnning a dishwasher. You should have seen the mystified looks I got when the dishwasher went belly up and they had to do it the old fashioned way. They were completely clueless. They thought they had one less chore fro a few days. I had to teach them how to wash dishes by hand. Apparently it isn't obvious how thats done. I think for a lot of people cooking is very much like that. Add to that that prepared foods are loaded with lots of unhealthy additives and the whole supersizing phenomenon and its no wonder so many people are over weight. I am overweight but most of that was gained after 50, quitting smoking, a divorce from the she demon from hell, and the onset of Type 2 diabetes. My ex she Demon likes to say I have diabetes because i gained weight. My Doctor however said my Diabetes contributed to my weight gain because we didn't know I had it. since we identified the Diabetes we have stopped the weight gain and I am now reversing the trend. So you see calling someone lazy because they are fat is wrong as often as it is right. You would do well to rethink you position. It is far more complex than just an issue of laziness.
We already have multiple people in this thread saying how much easier it is to order a pizza or microwave food than it is to cook. And it's definitely true - it's simply more convenient.
The fact that people take convenience over putting in a little bit of extra work to do something better for them is the definition of being lazy.
It's not "all they know" as you claim, gain, because you have people in this very thread telling you they know that it's not healthy but they are doing it because it's convenient, easy, and tastes good.
I do think though that some of it is ignorance, because people think eating healthy is expensive, when it's actually cheaper for a lot of meals if you price it out. People are just uneducated and they see these healthy fad fast food places pop up and think that means eating healthy is expensive.
As I've mentioned multiple times on this forum, you can eat a protein (pork or chicken) and some veggies (frozen broccoli) and season it with some spices and have a full meal for an adult for about $2 or $3 person.
Laziness, with a little bit of ignorance thrown in there (in some instances). Being ignorant on a subject such as eating properly is also being lazy IMO because there is tons of free information out there about how to eat healthy but people don't feel like bothering. Everyone knows that being fat is bad and unhealthy for you, and if you really cared you can go find out how to become healthy. And I'm sure you do have people who flat out simply don't care and are happy being unhealthy, but I don't think I've ever met a person in my life who is overweight and didn't wish they were in better shape.So which is it? Lazy or ignorant? You cited both in this response.
Laziness, with a little bit of ignorance thrown in there (in some instances). Being ignorant on a subject such as eating properly is also being lazy IMO because there is tons of free information out there about how to eat healthy but people don't feel like bothering. Everyone knows that being fat is bad and unhealthy for you, and if you really cared you can go find out how to become healthy. And I'm sure you do have people who flat out simply don't care and are happy being unhealthy, but I don't think I've ever met a person in my life who is overweight and didn't wish they were in better shape.
We'll agree to disagree. If you don't want to spend 10 minutes to cook a healthy meal "because it's more time" but will spend 5 minutes zapping a frozen pizza, that is what I call being lazy. And I'm not talking about doing that every now and then, I'm talking about doing it all the time. I eat out on the weekends quite often because on the weekends I like to be lazy on the weekend at times. But I know that it's me being lazy and that I like to eat junk food every now and then. I have balance though.What you said is probably true, but as NesuD stated, it's not 100% laziness. You can do some mental gymnastics to arrive at ignorance = laziness I guess, but it's not always as simple as 'I don't feel like prepping a meal'.
Personality goes a lot into it as well, some people have the mentality to spend more time in the kitchen for their own health and some don't, doesn't necessarily mean they're lazy.
We'll agree to disagree. If you don't want to spend 10 minutes to cook a healthy meal "because it's more time" but will spend 5 minutes zapping a frozen pizza, that is what I call being lazy. And I'm not talking about doing that every now and then, I'm talking about doing it all the time. I eat out on the weekends quite often because on the weekends I like to be lazy on the weekend at times. But I know that it's me being lazy and that I like to eat junk food every now and then. I have balance though.
What you said is probably true, but as NesuD stated, it's not 100% laziness. You can do some mental gymnastics to arrive at ignorance = laziness I guess, but it's not always as simple as 'I don't feel like prepping a meal'.
Personality goes a lot into it as well, some people have the mentality to spend more time in the kitchen for their own health and some don't, doesn't necessarily mean they're lazy.
Humans are creatures of habit. This has been a habit with people. I think we can all agree that long established habits are difficult to break and new habits take several weeks of repetition to establish. Calling someone lazy as an explanation for the inability to do something is just someone trying to alpha dog it. Habits aren't hard to break because your lazy. They are hard to break because of many factors including brain chemistry and psychological factors. I would go so far as to say in many cases I blame the parents because ultimately our children learn from what we do. If a parent sends an overweight kid into the world who has the habit of getting their meals out of snack bags, drive thrus, or the freezer section at the supermarket well it is hard to blame the kid because that's all they know.
That last part was my experience, and I've had to fight it most of my life. A lot better now than I used to be though.
Hang in there. It's a lifestyle change. Repetiton over time will help. It's a little trickier for me because of the diabetes. A diabetics diet and a weight loss diet aren't exactly the same thing. Very real danger of blood sugar going to low. I'll do that dance though and I'm getting good at it.
I can't think of a single meal I prepare at home that only takes ten minutes.
Pretty much every dinner I make during the week does.I can't think of a single meal I prepare at home that only takes ten minutes.