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Rocco: Change your stupid attitude |
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Written by Rocco Castellano
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Thursday, 18 January 2007 |
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 Q: You could be a great help to people who are overweight and suffering, but I think you’re the one who needs a bit of an attitude adjustment.
Why name [your blog] “fatpeoplearestupid.com”? Are you really under the impression that being fat has something to do with your powers of intellect? You are so full of yourself nothing can penetrate that veneer of stupidity that surrounds your school of thought. Your mother must be really proud of you. :(
Irene
A: I love when people who actually don’t know what they’re talking about write in without doing any research. It just shows that stupid comes in many sizes, and yours is 24 carat.
Stupid has nothing to do with intellect, it has everything to do with attitude. Sweetheart, stupid and fat are both a “state of mind” and an “attitude.” To change anything in our life, we need to first change our attitude toward it. Changing our attitude allows us the opportunity to look outside the “prison wall” mentality that has created the fatness which incarcerates us.
My powers of intellect will never come into play when it comes to YOUR attitude.
I wonder if you’ve ever done any of these things:
Spent hundreds of dollars on vitamin supplements because you thought they would help you lose weight? STUPID! Bought a Health Rider because you thought you would use it and didn’t? STUPID! Purchased a treadmill for a couple of grand just to watch everyone use it to hang their dry cleaning? STUPID! Maybe you purchased a lifetime membership to Bally’s 10 years ago and still haven’t gone. Oh, that’s right: STUPID!
When we stop feeling sorry for ourselves and develop an attitude that warrants us to be Americans and the superpower that we are, then and only then will I believe we have won the war against STUPIDITY.
Do you understand that 65 percent of us are fat, not obese? And that only about 15 percent to 20 percent of us are actually obese?
So, that means, with a little movement and some education, 45 percent of Americans have a fighting chance of not becoming obese. I like those odds. Only 25 years ago, 20 percent of us were considered fat (and 10 percent obese), and you don’t think there’s anything wrong with that? Sorry about your luck!
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Rocco Castellano is the co-founder of askROCCO Media, which provides boot camps, seminars, media content and online fitness services at askROCCO.com. He is certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine and has written “askROCCO Uncensored v1” available at bookstores. Ask your personal
fitness questions at askROCCO.com.
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