Irish Dad bods

It's an example. I could have said "shop for milk". Just back from a walk. Beautiful day. Only dog walkers out walking. Everyone else in the cars 😁 maybe they are driving to the gym. 😁 Anyway.

I’m just curious to know how the OP can look at a tubby bloke in a pair of swim shorts and know what he does for a living

I manage the weekly shopping for 4 in bike panniers. It really isn't that difficult.

OP could you tell us what height and weight you are, and is it safe for you to go outdoors on a windy day with the risk of being blown away

Yeah? In one go or several trips? Fair play. I don't. I do one big shop a week. Even trying to calculate how long until the next big shop so the milk wont run out until the next big shop.

The shop comment was to do with time and time to exercise and eat healthily. I don't harshly judge parents who share the role and put on weight during the early years. Its an extra, hard job with reduced sleep. Go easy on the blokes with bellies in Centre Parc. I'd say it's similar for women. Time is the issue for lots of those parents.

Maybe some things free up time like having cleaners or having involved grandparents. As someone with neither of those things, I can attest that time to do healthy behaviours or be vain is a scarce commodity. Because any time you take for yourself is time then other parent has to pick up the slack on their own.

They were all middle-class, middle-aged men with decent jobs and young families apparently. 🙄

Car dependency is a disaster (I love cars, I have three). Certain lifestyles further compound it, driving everywhere and driving the kids everywhere is a recipe for weight issues. Kids should be cycling, walking, skating to school. If the schools to far they should be walking to public transport and they should be walking around to each others houses to socialise.

While diet is incredibly important daily active travel adds up too, for children especially, regular walking or cycling builds lifelong habits, supports healthy weight, improves cardiovascular health, strengthens bones, builds muscle and reduces risks of obesity. It's my experience that active people tend to eat more healthily anyway and are certainly in better shape. I find car dependent people more likely to binge in fast food outlets.

This is total b0llocks.

Energy (calories) spent in exercise is in direct relation to energy consumed. Do more consuming and less exercise = gain weight.

Yes, although if someone starts to do a bit of exercise, does their diet not usually improve?

As You can see from the last half dozen posts, health advice, given with total certainty, by people with no qualifications, makes decisions about health very difficult for people.

The health advice industry is huge and as a result, clear evidence backed info on health is hard to find unless you really go looking for it.

Everyone is invited to be a health bro, offering advice fresh from the university of 'Trust Me Bro' and it doesn't actually help.

Not sure why women are getting a free pass for "To be clear, this isn’t about women I completely understand the physical realities of pregnancy, hormones, and menopause.".

Women don't work as many hours as men. They have the free time to be going on walks, gym, coffee mornings etc.. Men also have their own version of hormones and menopause. Its easy to be pointing a finger at men, but many have to work fulltime, and then come to a housewife to be expected to "half" the house work. Don't often see the mother doing "half" the earning.

When I look at old group pictures from the 50s and 60s there are no marginally or near obese people. Is diet and exercise(work) the reason?

You can't out run a bad diet...