Exercise is about mental health and fitness, not weight loss.
Can we just agree on one very simple fact before we get into the stupid Peloton controversy? The fact is this:There are a thousand cliches that illustrate this concept, and anyone who has ever tried to diet has heard them, but they all boil down to a simple truth: You lose weight in the kitchen, not the gym.
Exercise is wonderful for your muscles, especially your heart, and it’s wonderful for your brain. It can help suppress appetite in the short term, though for some people it has the opposite effect. It is not, however, anything more than a supplement to weight loss. You lose or maintain weight by watching what you eat.
But that’s not what people were upset about—they were mad that at the implication that the husband was fat-shaming the wife, even though she was clearly not overweight, or that he’s controlling and manipulative because he got her a piece of exercise equipment. It takes a wild degree of mind-reading to see this as a husband either fat-shaming his wife or implying with his gift that something is wrong with her that must be fixed. If you take the view that exercise is healthy and positive, as most sane people do, then this is a nice gift that probably, in this fictional world, stemmed from conversations they’d previously had about wanting to get in shape or reduce stress or whatever.
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