FPH Showerthought: The difference in mentality between a healthy athletic person and a fattie... Daughter's best friend is a very athletic lady playing basketball, volleyball, and skiing. 2 years ago she tore the labrum in her shoulder during basketball season. She kept playing even though she had what I can only imagine was tremendous pain. Her family had to finally make her quit playing until she got surgery to fix the tear.  During her recovery from the surgery we were talking about stuff and I quoted a line from the book The Fault in Our Stars. The line is "Pain demands to be felt."   Friends retort "yes, but it doesn't demand to be acknowledged".  Bam. The different between being into your own fitness and in the person that does the bare minimum to get by and complains the whole time they're doing that.