Dieting Makes You Rich!
Well, tell that to my wallet after dropping eleven bucks a week on Weight Watchers. Still, this interesting study shows a correlation between losing a significant amount of weight and increasing your wealth.
""If you really want to impact your wealth, you have to move from overweight or obese into the normal range," he said. "You can't just drop 5 or 10 pounds and change your wealth."
The theory in the last paragraph seems depressingly plausible. Overweight people are discriminated against in the workforce, especially white women who are "held to particularly high standards for beauty."
""If you really want to impact your wealth, you have to move from overweight or obese into the normal range," he said. "You can't just drop 5 or 10 pounds and change your wealth."
The theory in the last paragraph seems depressingly plausible. Overweight people are discriminated against in the workforce, especially white women who are "held to particularly high standards for beauty."
posted by mo pie at 4:04 PM
3 Comments:
I've heard that the more debt you are in the more fat you are likely to be...but I've never heard that dieting makes a person rich.
I know that last year, before I started on a journey to love myself no matter what size, I spent over $600 on herbs, supplements, books, schemes, plans, dreams, potions, lotions, and largely questionable junk. And that's just the junk I could keep track of from my credit card statements.
So nobody can really say dieting (and, presumably, going from BIG to LITTLE) make you rich.
I've done it all. SlimFast, Weight Watchers, TrimSpa, Fen-Phen, wristbands, hynosis tapes, Make the Connection, Atkins, Sugar Busters, Zone, food combining, Cortislim, Hydroxycut, etc. I even had my ears stapled after reading an article about it in a magazine. And for what? I'm 5'4" and weigh 288 pounds...the most EVER. I am over $30K in debt not including my mortgage. Where's the rich part?
LOL :) That's ok. I can still laugh, smile, and enjoy life.
Well, you do tend to spend more money at the start of a new fitness regime, but perhaps people only start them when they expect their finances to take an upturn, so they'll be able to afford it?
I mean, for me joining a gym coincided with getting a salaried job and knowing how much money would be coming in the next month. I've also been able to save some money over that period, so I am slightly richer than I was (although not on any level that would impress anybody. Then again, I haven't lost that much weight either, although I'm a lot fitter).
I've heard that "more attractive" people do better in job interviews (and frankly it would be surprising, if salutary, if they didn't) so the last paragraph does indeed sound rather likely.
It is depressingly plausible. In the world of large law firms in which I have found myself, there are very few large female lawyers, maybe a couple more paralegals of any notable size, and then lots of obese secretaries. It's like it's almost expected of the staff, but unacceptable in an attorney.
Post a Comment
<< Home