Why do more women seem to exercise than men?
I have been noticing for the past few years now that there are waaaaayyy more women that are running than men in downtown Toronto! Why is that?
I’ve been working in downtown Toronto for the past few years now. We’re pretty close to Lake Ontario as well. So, sometimes I go walk by the lakeshore. No matter where I go I have noticed that there are indeed more women outside than men.
More women are walking to work in the mornings and walking back in the afternoon. More women are biking in downtown. More women are jogging, running, roller blading! During lunch time I see them just go out for a jog by the lake as well. I would see you see at least 5 women for every man you see walking, jogging etc.
Why is that though?
I mean it’s always nice to see more women outside than lots of men 
But I really thought about it.
Is it because women are a lot more health conscious than men? If that’s the case then why is that? Do they really believe in remaining healthy?
Or is it because of the media? How we’re shown images of out of this world women with perfect proportions. We all know the kind of negative impact media has on us, especially the young kids these days. But is it possible that that negativity is also imbedded with in ourselves?
Are there more women that are health conscious because of low self esteem? Is it because they really want to be in good shape because it’s considered supposedly ugly to be a little over weight?
I’ve actually noticed how women that look good actually advanced fairly rapidly with in the work place. Not only that but they’re also treated differently than a little over weight women. A beautiful woman giving you an attitude and you might understand but an over weight one doing the same thing and you would never understand and actually treat her totally differently. I’ve seen this happen actually. An over weight woman was giving attitude to a few people at my work and they started commenting on how fat and ugly that woman was and she was still giving attitude and how if she was pretty they would actually understand her behaviour.
So, is that the reason that more women are into health than men?
What if they actually learned to totally love themselves for who they are? Is that possible? Of course it is possible but may not be as easy as it might be for men. I spoke to a friend of mine about this and he said that a man could be fat and ugly and still get girls as long as he had money but it’s very hard for women in this world to attract men as easily if they’re over weight.
This post is not something I intended to write. It’s just me thinking out loud basically. I’ve seen what low self-esteem can do to a person. I’m really curious to know how different people would be if they accepted themselves as who they are and totally approved of themselves.
Maybe we should have some sort of an experiment. Take someone who’s really into health and fitness but with low self-esteem and then help them fall in love with themselves and see what happens then.
On the other hand if you love yourself you treat yourself much better anyways. So, you would be really conscious of your health as well. hmm.. that doesn’t take me any closer to an answer.
Maybe conclusion is: if you like yourself and are happy with yourself and that’s why you’re health conscious then that’s wonderful but if you’re exercising constantly because you want to maintain a certain figure because you believe you would look more beautiful if you were a certain weight, then that’s not good!
Love yourself completely no matter how you look. Fall in love with yourself because no matter where you are, you are the only one that’s going to be accompanying you. So, you might as well make yourself your own friend rather than an enemy 
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June 16th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Consumer societies make people run after ideals that are really non-existent. Sometimes we get consumed by what we think we should be and equate happiness with something that is false. Interesting post…you can explore this deeper, especially the part about loving ourselves…what kinds of impediments do we impose to prevent that…
June 17th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
That seems to be happening quite a bit. People seem to be earning more than ever before and yet still are not happy. From the time we’re born we’re bombarded with advertisements. It’s very hard to get away from them. You can stop watching tv, stop reading newspaper or even stop listening to radio but you’ll still have bill boards staring at you wherever you go.
Not to mention you’ll be associating with others who may be totally conditioned by media. It’s quite tough to get away from it all unless we go live in mountains away from everything and everyone. Apart from that, we can keep ourselves positive by avoiding any sort of negativity, either via tv, newspapers, radio, other people and so on. Then fill our minds with positive books and tapes