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Bus Company Says Thin Drivers Deserve Better Pay
In an attempt to promote good employee health, a Lithuanian transport company is paying thin drivers better salaries than their overweight co-workers. Over 100 drivers were weighed to determine their BMI. "We just wanted to promote a health lifestyle," said Vilius Lauzikas, director of Busturas, the transport company in question. The local union and donut loving drivers aren't fans of the new policy. "We cannot call it nothing other than a mockery. If they (the company) do not reconsider we will appeal to the courts," a union representative said.
I think your pay for "working out" is the bonus.
Therefore, it's during "work hours." The pay may be more than, less than, or the same as your usual rate, but it's still paid.
You can even claim that you're a professional excerciser since you're being paid to do it.
You don't want to do that sort of work? Cool. No "bonus" for you.
*shrug*
Kid-proof tablet..
By doing that consistently for several years AND exercising 3 hours every night, I actually got my weight to only 20 pounds over my "ideal" weight. Then I became an adult with an actual responsibility to have a job and that went out the window.
You did a nice job assUmeing that I "gorge myself" at meals. Perhaps YOU do/did that, but I certainly don't.
The simple fact is that some people wolf down the calories, barely exercise, and remain thin because they are naturally thin. Others eat sparingly and exercise and are fat because that's their natural weight. The former frequently like to look down on the latter for their "failure".
When called on their bigotry (and yes, it *IS* bigotry), the former often claim it's a matter of health and fitness even when the person they are addressing is stronger, faster, and more generally healthy than they are.
Guess what will happen if you follow someone around hurling insults 24/7. He will surely assault you eventually.
There's only so long a person can be expected to put up a sustained resistance to that sort of impulse. People avoid giving in to horny through a combination of finding a willing partner, hiring a willing partner, or "going solo". In other words, they give in all the time to a drive that is lower on the order of evolutionary priorities than eating (no eat = no reproduce ever again, after all).
Here's an experiment for you to try: masturbate 3 times a day, but just as it's getting good, stop and go back to work. Repeat for the rest of your life.
Now consider that you are telling others to defy a natural drive that's even stronger than that for the rest of their lives as if it's nothing.
Remarkable, you are equating being fat with a criminal offense!
It's a LOT more complex. Of the calories you consume, some portion will be metabolized and the rest will pass. That ratio of consumed to absorbed will vary in different people.
Likewise the conversion of that metabolic energy to work will happen at varying efficiency.
Finally, when caloric intake is restricted, the metabolism will shift to a conservation mode. The point where that happen and the degree of conservation will vary.
A person with a low absorption and work efficiency and a minimal response to caloric restriction will easily lose weight and likely will be rather thin on a normal diet. On the opposite side, a person whose work and absorption efficiency is high with a strong response to caloric restriction would have to literally starve themselves and/or exercise to an extreme level (in spite of the deep fatigue that sets in when the metabolism switches to conserve energy) to lose weight and keep it off.
I agree that no magic is involved in any of that, just a model sufficiently complex to match observation.