What happend to men and what created the Fear of FAT!

Is it just me or are others seeing more and more people / clients coming to them with eating disorders (bulimia /anorexia) then prior? The increase seems moreso in young men / boys WTF! It's pretty sad the sheer lack of desire in people to want to put in the work, carry around an above average amount of lean mass and strength. We, the large, strong, etc are truely a dieing breed it seems more then ever before.

To clarify I'm not talking about people who have a healthy relationship with training and nutrition and are meeting thier goals of getting crazy lean, ripped and strong, That's all cool, go get that.

Im talking about a growing population of people who have a real fear of body fat. A feeling its evil, and a hatred that negatively impacts their ... Read Morelife and causes LARGE amounts of undue stress. Mental and physical health issues.

That's NOT good and is seemingly largely impacted by both eh media today and sadly the majority of the fitness industry.

I recently posted this on my facebook and got great response such as this from Shawn Phillips:

"Man scary sad and good reminder... The masses have truly settled for an occassional glimpse of mediocraty! Hence the problem Health--the widespread definition of it, the simple desire to be no more, no better, no more robust than to be Free from Disease==aka Healthy.

We aim to low as a people and realize less than our moderate aspirations!

I totally get that when ur 50 PBS over weight, that dropping 40 is a life changer but the sole goal of LOSING can not be self energizing... ... Read More

To choose some place in your life where you can and want to be MORE is to expand.... More active, more vital, more biking, more strength, more challenge, more connected, more alive ....and guess what? The f'n weight will self resolve because you're bringing more capacity to life cutting off room for addictions, stop using food to fulfill the more nature of our lives..

Oh... Do get me started!!!"

Shawn is exactly right. Its more a desire and a huge push to be Less. A constant focus on deprivation and subtraction then on the positive growth and advancement and how that alone, that building and betterment will in and of itself remove the negative by default and in a positive instead of negatively focused way.

More on this later I think.....