So, you could have your paycheck docked if you're fat.
I actually would LOVE to have someone follow me around for a week and see how I actually eat. Hint: It doesn't involve McDonald's, a gallon of ice cream per day, or mountains of chocolate bars. :P
Breakfast today: a 6-oz container of yogurt
Lunch today: about 5 oz. of "Gimme Lean" brand vegetarian sausage, cut into pieces and sauteed in about a half tablespoon of olive oil
Dinner tonight: Mini pizzas made of English muffins, Boboli sauce, and a little bit of aged provolone. I'll probably have two, each of which is half a muffin with toppings. And I might have a scoop of ice cream for dessert because I LIKE IT. I usually make some vegetarian dish with fresh vegetables and eat that with rice, but I am low on fresh stuff right now (Saturday morning necessity: The Farmers Market).
At some point, I'll have a snack of grapes, a plum, or whatever kind of fruit is lurking in the fridge (Brian went to the store yesterday, so maybe we have PEACHES!)
This is fairly normal to me; I sometimes am not feeling well enough to eat breakfast, and sometimes not even lunch.
I AM SUCH A PIG!
Edited to add: I just realized that the headline was "being unhealthy* could cost you money"--NOT "being fat". Oh, the powers of assumption.
*emphasis mine
Edit #2:
Edited to add: If they truly believed in weight-loss as a health issue, and they really believed that it could be accomplished with traditional methods, then the docked pay would be made available to the employee if they applied it toward weight-loss (gym membership, Weight Watchers membership, doctor bills, medication). Since they're not doing this, it really and truly looks like a money grab to me.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
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Thanks for this article. I agree with your comments, also...it’s much more expensive to eat healthy so if they deduct money from people’s pay cheques then they’ll be even less likely to afford healthy choices in their diets. I think the entire idea is outrageous. I was watching a real estate show a few months ago and I think it was in Paris where you can’t get a mortgage if you’re overweight…apparently it’s some sort of health risk. Never mind that most of my thin relatives have died from heart failure and the more rotund ones are still going strong. hmmm...makes you wonder what it’s really all about, eh? Could it just be plain old discrimination against the obese? hmmmm....
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