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Originally posted by ltl/fb
Yes we did. But some of us are sympathetic to particular types of insecurities, and like to counter the "everyone has time to work out and it should be the #1 priority" and "fat cow" crap. It sounds like she gets a decent (though doubtless not ideal) amount of exercise from a health perspective, and there are worse things she could do than not be skinny.
ETA I am not her best friend, and she has made a bazillion choices that I would not have made (e.g. living two HOURS from work and making babies). Like rp, I think that having a job TWO HOURS from one's home is INSANE. However, if one is unwilling to move, and has kids, and has a full-time job, that pretty much knocks out the ability to be on any serious physical fitness routine unless one only needs like 3 hours of sleep a night.
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Like I said, an improved diet and 20 minutes of decent exercise a day would improve things immensely. But she doesn't want to improve her diet and she definitely doesn't want to exercise.
The funny thing about the commute thing is this: If someone said they spent 4 hours working out every day, she would jump all over them for being a horrible parent. But she can't get it through her fat little mind that the fact that she wants to live a life that she cannot afford is the reason why she has a two hour commute. I bet her kids would appreciate her being around more more than living in a bigger house (although, I could be wrong, since when their parents
are around, they have to threaten people with lawsuits to get them to play with them). She spends like she's a partner, when she's really a paralegal. She lives in a house that is probably too expensive and big for her. If she stopped wasting her money and had a realistic view of how she should be living, she could probably live much closer to the city.
But I think she lives so far away because she likes to have total freedom when she's in the city. No chance she runs into her kids or husband when she's shopping, eating or doing whatever else she does.
TM
