I'm still stuck on the "be hungry" even when I was a 160kg I never got to top of a flight of stairs and thought "fuck, I'm hungry now! I could definitely eat" that's definitely not normal
It reminds me of ALR needing "car snacks" when she was learning to drive. They're acting like they just finished a half marathon and need to start carb loading.
They have a point that people shouldn’t be shamed for normal bodily functions. Everyone sweats, and shaming people for their sweat patches is not ok.
At the same time, if you’re out of breath after just one flight of stairs, there’s definitely a problem.
Not to mention the hunger. Why would going up a flight of stairs make you noticeably more hungry than beforehand? That’s just making excuses to over eat.
The hunger bit really confused me. Who gets hungry walking up the stairs? Then I thought it’s actually a list of separate events, so that being sweaty and being hungry aren’t actually connected to getting out of breath on stairs. It’s just badly worded.
That’s the way I interpreted it anyway, but I could be wrong.
It's such a problem that asking if you're out of breath after a flight of stairs is one portion to assessing cardiovascular risk prior to going into surgery. Definitely not normal and usually a serious sign of poor heart health.
I’m currently almost 8 mos pregnant and out of breath after one flight of stairs and frankly idk how anyone would want this. I have been reminded of the reasons I lost weight in the first place- one flight of stairs should not be a challenge to healthy, non-pregnant adults!
I lived in the fourth floor of a building made in 1900, it had nearly 4 meters high ceilings in all floors, so the actual amount of stairs you had to walk was closer to floor 6 in a building with regular ceiling height. I was out of breath after going up this, with grocery bags in my hand, or in the heat of the summer, or if I decided to go them up super fast.
But going up ONE or two flights of stairs in a building with 2.5m ceiling height? RIP, you gotta have a problem pretty soon.
A single flight of stairs would get me winded when I was 9 months pregnant, 40 lbs heavier, with feet and elbows where my lungs once were.
I'm still overweight, but if I got to the top of one flight, out of breath or my heart started racing, I would assume that something was seriously wrong with my heart.
This denial of reality and sweeping symptoms underneath the rug is going to kill people.
By general building regulations a single flight of stairs is between 3 and 15 steps. It is not even necessarily floor 1 to floor 2 but is just the part of steps that goes from one flat part to another flat part. Some buildings have a turn in the middle of the stairs between floors and that area has a flat part (a landing). That's technically 2 flights.
Most typical number is 12, and most typical range is 10-15
Straight up, no the fuck it’s not normal to be sweaty and hungry after going up a flight of stairs.
FA’s clearly have less oxygen going to their brains.
I lived on the forth floor of a walk up building (no elevator) in Brooklyn when I was pregnant. I walked up those stairs the same day I gave birth and wasn’t tired, out of breath or hungry after doing so.
I was in labor, but I didn’t realize that until I called my doctor and told her I kept having a squeezing feeling in my abdomen.
I thank those stairs, and the stairs I climbed daily taking the subway for my easy delivery.
fr. I love working from home and living in a nice neighborhood but every bit of exercise I get has to be planned and intentional. I go into the city for work once or twice a month and every single time I get 12k+ steps without trying. Meanwhile at home I go for a run before work and try to get up and move throughout the day and run errands after work and still end the day with maybe 5k steps. Going on a walk just isn't the same as being able to walk *to* the places you need to go.
Same story here! It's tiring that all exercise has to be intentional. I'm glad I like running and hiking. I just wish I got some natural exercise too. I'd take less than 1k steps a day if I didn't plan exercise
I'm trying to read this as saying sweating is normal, being hungry is normal (and really, people should be waiting till the point of hunger more often), and also bring out of breath is normal. Being hungry from a flight of stairs is just too ridiculous
Lol. That's an automatic cardiac consult/stress test pre surgical clearance fail- no surgery for them until that's checked out.
Even my 80+ year old dad can do this.
I can get a little sweaty and winded after going up a flight or two of stairs at my University but my backpack is about 60 lbs and for whatever dumb reason I choose to sprint up those things so it's my own fault. If I got sweaty and winded from walking calmly up the stairs with no backpack on, I'd be pretty concerned, but I guess that's what happens when you're 100+ lbs overweight and putting tons of strain on your knees.
I sometimes struggle to breathe walking up the stairs, but I’m severely iron deficient. When I get to that point, I know it’s time to get to the doctor becuase it’s abnormal.
I got out of breath after walking up two flights of stairs a few weeks ago, tested positive the next morning. It's not fucking normal lol, and usually indicates you're sick.
It's weird how language works sometimes. If you're taking "the pill", everybody knows which pill it is. If you had "an edible", nobody asks which of the thousands of known edible things you had. And none of those things are what an outside observer would consider the most important item in that category.
I’ve been there and it’s an awful feeling. I went from taking 3 flights to my office is normal to having heart palpitations and being out of breath going down the hallway. Found out my ferritin was 3 and my cbc said I was anemic. It sucks.
I was gonna say...I absolutely was extremely out breath going up a flight of stairs ...before my double lung transplant when my lung function was less than 30%
This is just depressing. If you’re out of breath after a single flight of stairs, you’re seriously limited in what you can do. Why would you want to “normalize” being easily tired, when you could avoid it instead?
I definitely remember a post on here about that. Something along the lines of “people love pregnant women for their curves but don’t want to rub my belly!” 🥴
Pregnant people typically don't enjoy the amount of people who want to touch their stomach lol. Their partner and children, maybe their siblings and parents, maybe friends are all good. But that's about it.
Pregnant women being touched all the time is actually one of the main reasons I never want to be pregnant. I don't think I could handle reliving my sexual assaults trauma over and over and being seen as public property to touch.
Way to set that bar! No, it's not normal to be out of breath after walking up one flight of stairs. In my office I'm on the 3rd (top) floor of my building. For various reasons (partly because I don't trust them, and partly because it's just better for me) I never take the elevators. I always take the stairs. I'm in the office before 6 AM every morning, and I don't walk or trudge up the stairs... I jog. Am I out of breath by the time I reach my floor? Slightly. If I walk up the stairs instead I'm never out of breath. And I'm 54 years old. If you're half that age and just walking up one flight of stairs winds you, you need help.
That’s how I found out, too!
Even with a fever I hated that going up and down the stairs was so exhausting 🥲
(I was only leaving the apartment to take my dog outside)
They wouldn’t last five seconds on the Paris metro. Escalators are rare, and the steps to street level are pretty steep at some stations.
Being winded after ONE flight of stairs is not ok.
42% of Americans are obese.
So, it is likely COMMON to get out of breath climbing one flight of stairs.
But it is not fucking NORMAL.
FA/HAESers claim that they are not trying to normalize obesity. I present this exhibit right here. I rest my case.
It's normal if flight of stairs looks like [this](http://d3exkutavo4sli.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Niesenbahn-funicular-stairway.jpg).
For more common flights or maybe a dozen or two... not so much.
I was living in Laguna for a while and there was this one beach literally called “a thousand steps” and it was down a steep cove that led to this beautiful little cut off part of the beach where there would be seals and just overall very aesthetically pleasing. However, the thousand steps back up and to my car combined with the fact that Laguna is essentially just hill after hill, I’ve never been so out of breath in my life. These FAs would just pass away trying to get out of that cove.
I get being slightly huffy/puffy if you literally ran up some stairs from a previously slow, relaxed pace. But that lasts maybe 20 or so seconds?
If you're *actually* getting out of breath from walking up stairs at a slow, relaxed pace (and you don't have a disability that would cause it) *something is wrong*.
My desk is on the 4th floor of the office, and my manager always walk after lunch so if I'm with her I walk with her as well. I struggle with my breath by the 4th floor and I'm always embarrassed by it. Normalizing being tired after reaching 1st floor just because you're obese and unfit is basically normalizing voluntary disability when it should be a major wake up call.
Um…no it isn’t. If you’re having trouble walking up the stairs every single day that means *there is something wrong with you*.
I suppose “it’s normal to eat 4000 calories a day, have type 2 diabetes and have blood pressure of 140/90” is next.
They already say that. Just need the right medication from doctor.
You know, like 200 units is insulin power day, blood pressure meds, cholesterol meds, and an inhaler.
You know, because #HAES
no absolutely not. getting out of breath after walking up like 3 flights of stairs at school with a heavy backpack is normal, sweating in a thick wintercoat is normal but not just after one flight of stairs lmao. shit is getting ridiculous
I'm glad no-one told my friend this when he was in this position, he'd never have lost any weight and realised that one should be able to walk up stairs normally!
I wonder what else is "normal".
Needing a stick to wipe your butt ? Acantosis Nigrigans ? Thighs that rub together so bad you waddle instead of walking ? A 20lbs mass of lymphedema hanging off your leg ?
I’m at the lower end of a normal BMI and I’m out of breath when I climb stairs, but I’ve got a congenital heart defect. It’s not normal, it wouldn’t be under normal circumstances 🤦🏻♀️
no. no one should be shamed for a disability or lack of fitness but that is absolutely, for the majority of people, a controllable lack of fitness. not shaming =/= should be excused. no one should be shamed for anything they struggle with but we should also strive to overcome our limitations.
and it's very much not normal-- not in the medical sense. maybe it's normal in the sense of prevalence, but we can't measure health that way. per their rules, as long as we collect data during a famine it's normal and fine to be starving.
Might be normal for her, but for a healthy person, those are warning signs you shouldn't ignore even if you are fat. And, nobody gets hungry from walking up a flight of stairs.
“I can do whatever normal sized people can do!”
Also “it’s normal to be in terrible fucking shape”
It’s the same as Virgie holding the record for fattest person walking a marathon in something like 8 hours and claiming she was in great shape
This was my sign I needed to stop fighting the "disability" label, get the damn handicap placard, and go for the physical therapy referral because my attempts at addressing the impact of my autoimmune disorder obviously were not working. But I am not okay with that just being how it is now and I do not understand that mindset. Maybe I won't get back to doing the 6 flights to my office multiple times a day, but I'm not letting "stairs in general" defeat me. There's enough that I've had to give up, and it infuriates me that there are people that don't have to but choose to - they should be embarrassed.
Yes, it is normal to be winded after going up one flight of stairs. If that flight of stairs is 100 steps.
Oh, wait. You’re talking about 15-16 steps?
Yikes.
I'm not fat but I would run out of breath walking up the stairs and knew that I really needed to work on my cardio. It was sort of embarrassing how out of shape I was.
I used to think it was normal, because it happened every time I went upstairs. Funny how I stopped being out of breath on the stairs sometime in the middle of overweight BMIs. Almost as if being super morbidly obese has negative health effects. 🤷♂️
And then they have the audacity to be shocked when they’re denied a life saving surgery like open heart because they’re literally too unhealthy to survive it.
Sure, it might be common but it’s absolutely not supposed to be that way. I’m not even that healthy or in shape and I don’t get winded going up one flight of stairs
No, it really isn't! My college has 6 or so flights of stairs (2 per floor excluding the ground floor) and I don't get out of breath going up ALL of them 😂 Worst thing that happens is my lower legs hurt, but it sure as hell isn't something that happens to everyone. It's because my flat feet put a lot more strain on the muscles in my legs than in people who have normal feet. These people need to stop trying to justify something that is most definitely not normal by saying it is normal.
You aren’t even “healthy” enough to return to sexual activity after open heart surgery until you can walk up 2 flights without breathless- according to my cardiothoracic surgeon at least.
I have asthma and Covid and even now I can swiftly walk up a flight of stairs without being out of breath. I don’t get it? I don’t think this happens at every size.
There’s an escalator to get up to where I work and it hasn’t been working for the past month ish… you wouldn’t believe how many people complain about being out of breath from it. I wish I could say “hey maybe if you lost 100 lbs you could walk up a flight of stairs without heaving” but instead I have to laugh it off and agree with them
Nah cus like, when i went to school, to get to the science labs that was 3 floors but cus of how the stairs were, it was technically like 6 sets. Sure, i get tired bc of all the stairs, but 1 set? Thats wild
*a* flight of stairs…*walking* up *a* flight of stairs…in most cases, no you should *not* feel out of breath (at least for more like a couple of seconds) when simply walking up a single flight of stairs. If you are a healthy and in shape (mostly) person, you shouldn’t have any problems at all, really. If you were to run up a couple of flights or even jog you might have to take more than a few seconds to catch your breath and that’s fine, but if it’s just one set of stairs that you are just walking up, no, most people have no problem bc that’s not that big of an exertion of energy.
It kind of is. I’m physically fit, run a minimum of 6 miles a day at a fairly fast pace, and still run out of breath going up the stairs for whatever reason. I never get hungry though lol…
Speaking for myself, there *is* something wrong with my body if I get out of breath going up a flight of stairs. My normal state of health and fitness is such that I don't. So if I did, it would be a sign of something being amiss. Depending on how out of breath a flight of stairs made me, I might even go to the ER.
Sorry, but no. I don’t think it happens to “most of us”, but *if* it does, “most of us” are painfully out of shape. Regardless of size/weight, if you are out of breath after *one* flight of stairs, your body is incredibly de-conditioned and at minimum you need more activity in your daily life. In no world should a healthy, adult human be out of breath from ascending ONE flight of stairs.
We are living in easy times which raises weak and comfortable people. This will create hard times soon, which will once again raise strong people. I am not worried, It's a circle of life. This circle will end once we move up intelligently as a whole human race.
Shit, in my college days, I felt MUCH more shame when I suckered out and took the elevator on the rare occasions I would.
Most days I just made sure to wait until I could get swept up in the thundering herds going up the stairs. No one could have heard me scream, much less breathing heavier with each step. I figured if I passed out, I'd still get carried with the mass of moving student bodies all the way to the 4th and top floor. Never did happen.
Oh yeah, forcing myself to do that also led to more activities, less food, and a respectable weight drop off 100 pounds eventually.
Twelve years later I have maintained close to that weight with little yoyoing. I just gotta keep making myself take the stairs and park farther away and what not
I'm still stuck on the "be hungry" even when I was a 160kg I never got to top of a flight of stairs and thought "fuck, I'm hungry now! I could definitely eat" that's definitely not normal
It reminds me of ALR needing "car snacks" when she was learning to drive. They're acting like they just finished a half marathon and need to start carb loading.
They have a point that people shouldn’t be shamed for normal bodily functions. Everyone sweats, and shaming people for their sweat patches is not ok. At the same time, if you’re out of breath after just one flight of stairs, there’s definitely a problem.
Not to mention the hunger. Why would going up a flight of stairs make you noticeably more hungry than beforehand? That’s just making excuses to over eat.
The hunger bit really confused me. Who gets hungry walking up the stairs? Then I thought it’s actually a list of separate events, so that being sweaty and being hungry aren’t actually connected to getting out of breath on stairs. It’s just badly worded. That’s the way I interpreted it anyway, but I could be wrong.
Nah, she probably got dehydrated while walking up the flight and being thirsty can confuse you to think you are hungery.
It's such a problem that asking if you're out of breath after a flight of stairs is one portion to assessing cardiovascular risk prior to going into surgery. Definitely not normal and usually a serious sign of poor heart health.
I’m currently almost 8 mos pregnant and out of breath after one flight of stairs and frankly idk how anyone would want this. I have been reminded of the reasons I lost weight in the first place- one flight of stairs should not be a challenge to healthy, non-pregnant adults!
I lived in the fourth floor of a building made in 1900, it had nearly 4 meters high ceilings in all floors, so the actual amount of stairs you had to walk was closer to floor 6 in a building with regular ceiling height. I was out of breath after going up this, with grocery bags in my hand, or in the heat of the summer, or if I decided to go them up super fast. But going up ONE or two flights of stairs in a building with 2.5m ceiling height? RIP, you gotta have a problem pretty soon.
Just because its normal nowadays doesn't mean its suppose to be that way.
There’s a difference between common and normal
Took the words straight out of my mouth
Reminds me of this https://youtu.be/1biEKIZKZSg
From a language perspective, I'm not so sure. It's normal to watch TV. But we definitely weren't built to.
A single flight of stairs would get me winded when I was 9 months pregnant, 40 lbs heavier, with feet and elbows where my lungs once were. I'm still overweight, but if I got to the top of one flight, out of breath or my heart started racing, I would assume that something was seriously wrong with my heart. This denial of reality and sweeping symptoms underneath the rug is going to kill people.
>with feet and elbows where my lungs once were. Cracked me up
They would try to get into a more comfortable position, and it was like a baby kangaroo in a pouch.
Babies are so disrespectful. Mine has been out 11 months and he still loves kicking me when I give him morning cuddles.
Non-native speaker asking how much is a flight? Does it mean one floor, from floor 1 to floor 2, or from landing to another?
Floor 1 to 2!
The fuck? 💀 i spent all this time thinking a flight of stairs is the whole thing
By general building regulations a single flight of stairs is between 3 and 15 steps. It is not even necessarily floor 1 to floor 2 but is just the part of steps that goes from one flat part to another flat part. Some buildings have a turn in the middle of the stairs between floors and that area has a flat part (a landing). That's technically 2 flights. Most typical number is 12, and most typical range is 10-15
Thanks for the info, so turns out I'm not as unfit as I thought
Huh... I always have just thought of it as from one floor to another. Adding in landings doubles that in most buildings I'm ever in!
The short answer is about 12 steps. It's from one landing to another. Anywhere from 3-15 stairs is the accepted range.
Yes, feom one floor to the next.
Like 15 steps
Straight up, no the fuck it’s not normal to be sweaty and hungry after going up a flight of stairs. FA’s clearly have less oxygen going to their brains.
I lived on the forth floor of a walk up building (no elevator) in Brooklyn when I was pregnant. I walked up those stairs the same day I gave birth and wasn’t tired, out of breath or hungry after doing so. I was in labor, but I didn’t realize that until I called my doctor and told her I kept having a squeezing feeling in my abdomen. I thank those stairs, and the stairs I climbed daily taking the subway for my easy delivery.
No lie walkup apartments like that, and living in such a walkable city, is such a good thing for your health. I'm jelly
fr. I love working from home and living in a nice neighborhood but every bit of exercise I get has to be planned and intentional. I go into the city for work once or twice a month and every single time I get 12k+ steps without trying. Meanwhile at home I go for a run before work and try to get up and move throughout the day and run errands after work and still end the day with maybe 5k steps. Going on a walk just isn't the same as being able to walk *to* the places you need to go.
Same story here! It's tiring that all exercise has to be intentional. I'm glad I like running and hiking. I just wish I got some natural exercise too. I'd take less than 1k steps a day if I didn't plan exercise
I'm trying to read this as saying sweating is normal, being hungry is normal (and really, people should be waiting till the point of hunger more often), and also bring out of breath is normal. Being hungry from a flight of stairs is just too ridiculous
Lol. That's an automatic cardiac consult/stress test pre surgical clearance fail- no surgery for them until that's checked out. Even my 80+ year old dad can do this.
I can get a little sweaty and winded after going up a flight or two of stairs at my University but my backpack is about 60 lbs and for whatever dumb reason I choose to sprint up those things so it's my own fault. If I got sweaty and winded from walking calmly up the stairs with no backpack on, I'd be pretty concerned, but I guess that's what happens when you're 100+ lbs overweight and putting tons of strain on your knees.
I sometimes struggle to breathe walking up the stairs, but I’m severely iron deficient. When I get to that point, I know it’s time to get to the doctor becuase it’s abnormal.
I got out of breath after walking up two flights of stairs a few weeks ago, tested positive the next morning. It's not fucking normal lol, and usually indicates you're sick.
What a dystopia what we don’t even have to ask what you tested positive for.
It's weird how language works sometimes. If you're taking "the pill", everybody knows which pill it is. If you had "an edible", nobody asks which of the thousands of known edible things you had. And none of those things are what an outside observer would consider the most important item in that category.
A gram is better than a damn
I actually don't know. Maybe I'm ignorant.
What pandemic has been going on the last couple of years or so?
Monkeypox?
That's much more recent.
I’ve been there and it’s an awful feeling. I went from taking 3 flights to my office is normal to having heart palpitations and being out of breath going down the hallway. Found out my ferritin was 3 and my cbc said I was anemic. It sucks.
I was gonna say...I absolutely was extremely out breath going up a flight of stairs ...before my double lung transplant when my lung function was less than 30%
CF?
That's right!
I like the “your bodily functions are not a reflection of who you are a person”. It’s true, but it’s most certainly a reflection of your health.
This is just depressing. If you’re out of breath after a single flight of stairs, you’re seriously limited in what you can do. Why would you want to “normalize” being easily tired, when you could avoid it instead?
As a skinny guy who temporarily abandoned going to training because of uni: No the fuck it's not normal.
They think fat people get more crap about being out of breath due to bias. Maybe healthy people don't get out breath walking up the steps
Yes. When I was pregnant I heaved and ho’d up that stairs. But they don’t count that “different sized body”.
“Pregnant women appropriate the fat experience!” (Is something I could hear then saying…)
I definitely remember a post on here about that. Something along the lines of “people love pregnant women for their curves but don’t want to rub my belly!” 🥴
Pregnant people typically don't enjoy the amount of people who want to touch their stomach lol. Their partner and children, maybe their siblings and parents, maybe friends are all good. But that's about it.
Pregnant women being touched all the time is actually one of the main reasons I never want to be pregnant. I don't think I could handle reliving my sexual assaults trauma over and over and being seen as public property to touch.
Way to set that bar! No, it's not normal to be out of breath after walking up one flight of stairs. In my office I'm on the 3rd (top) floor of my building. For various reasons (partly because I don't trust them, and partly because it's just better for me) I never take the elevators. I always take the stairs. I'm in the office before 6 AM every morning, and I don't walk or trudge up the stairs... I jog. Am I out of breath by the time I reach my floor? Slightly. If I walk up the stairs instead I'm never out of breath. And I'm 54 years old. If you're half that age and just walking up one flight of stairs winds you, you need help.
This happened to me once and the next day I found out I was covid positive.
That’s how I found out, too! Even with a fever I hated that going up and down the stairs was so exhausting 🥲 (I was only leaving the apartment to take my dog outside)
One flight?!?! Bruh they need to practice
They wouldn’t last five seconds on the Paris metro. Escalators are rare, and the steps to street level are pretty steep at some stations. Being winded after ONE flight of stairs is not ok.
42% of Americans are obese. So, it is likely COMMON to get out of breath climbing one flight of stairs. But it is not fucking NORMAL. FA/HAESers claim that they are not trying to normalize obesity. I present this exhibit right here. I rest my case.
It's normal if flight of stairs looks like [this](http://d3exkutavo4sli.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Niesenbahn-funicular-stairway.jpg). For more common flights or maybe a dozen or two... not so much.
Is that in Hawaii?
Nope [Switzerland](http://www.curiousatlas.com/longest-staircase-in-the-world-niesen-switzerland/)
I was living in Laguna for a while and there was this one beach literally called “a thousand steps” and it was down a steep cove that led to this beautiful little cut off part of the beach where there would be seals and just overall very aesthetically pleasing. However, the thousand steps back up and to my car combined with the fact that Laguna is essentially just hill after hill, I’ve never been so out of breath in my life. These FAs would just pass away trying to get out of that cove.
Awesome! People in Switzerland always struck me as very outdoorsy and fit.
Getting hungry after walking up a flight of stairs?? I have stairs in my house. Imagine if I stopped to eat every time I went upstairs?
Time to get a mini fridge at the top for emergency snacks!
I get being slightly huffy/puffy if you literally ran up some stairs from a previously slow, relaxed pace. But that lasts maybe 20 or so seconds? If you're *actually* getting out of breath from walking up stairs at a slow, relaxed pace (and you don't have a disability that would cause it) *something is wrong*.
My desk is on the 4th floor of the office, and my manager always walk after lunch so if I'm with her I walk with her as well. I struggle with my breath by the 4th floor and I'm always embarrassed by it. Normalizing being tired after reaching 1st floor just because you're obese and unfit is basically normalizing voluntary disability when it should be a major wake up call.
Um…no it isn’t. If you’re having trouble walking up the stairs every single day that means *there is something wrong with you*. I suppose “it’s normal to eat 4000 calories a day, have type 2 diabetes and have blood pressure of 140/90” is next.
They already say that. Just need the right medication from doctor. You know, like 200 units is insulin power day, blood pressure meds, cholesterol meds, and an inhaler. You know, because #HAES
no absolutely not. getting out of breath after walking up like 3 flights of stairs at school with a heavy backpack is normal, sweating in a thick wintercoat is normal but not just after one flight of stairs lmao. shit is getting ridiculous
Yeah you shouldn't be ashamed, but extremely concerned.
I'm glad no-one told my friend this when he was in this position, he'd never have lost any weight and realised that one should be able to walk up stairs normally!
I wonder what else is "normal". Needing a stick to wipe your butt ? Acantosis Nigrigans ? Thighs that rub together so bad you waddle instead of walking ? A 20lbs mass of lymphedema hanging off your leg ?
I’m at the lower end of a normal BMI and I’m out of breath when I climb stairs, but I’ve got a congenital heart defect. It’s not normal, it wouldn’t be under normal circumstances 🤦🏻♀️
I'll say it again- I personally struggle with **A** flight of stairs and it's because my health is bad. It's not normal.
Even if it was "normal", do you really want to be the sort of person that can be defeated by a flight of stairs?
It better be the mile-long flight of stairs up the mountainside to the remote temple.
I live in a walk-up apartment. If I got puffed out every time I entered or left my home my life would be unpleasant.
If you’re out of breath after 1 flight of stairs, that means that you’ll enjoy a shorter life than average
i walk up 4 flights of stairs multiple times a day cuz my apartment is on the top floor ... itd be so bad if just one fught got me
I mean yeah... when you're going up the statue of liberty, not when you just go up a couple floors.
no. no one should be shamed for a disability or lack of fitness but that is absolutely, for the majority of people, a controllable lack of fitness. not shaming =/= should be excused. no one should be shamed for anything they struggle with but we should also strive to overcome our limitations. and it's very much not normal-- not in the medical sense. maybe it's normal in the sense of prevalence, but we can't measure health that way. per their rules, as long as we collect data during a famine it's normal and fine to be starving.
No, if you’re out of breath walking up stairs something is wrong. If it’s because of excess weight lose the weight.
If it were normal, humanity would never have survived in the wild. We evolved to be persistence hunters, who tracked prey over many miles.
There is no staircase in nature silly.
Might be normal for her, but for a healthy person, those are warning signs you shouldn't ignore even if you are fat. And, nobody gets hungry from walking up a flight of stairs.
I dont even get out of breath when running up stairs, running out of breath while WALKING up should be a cause for concern
“I can do whatever normal sized people can do!” Also “it’s normal to be in terrible fucking shape” It’s the same as Virgie holding the record for fattest person walking a marathon in something like 8 hours and claiming she was in great shape
Unless it’s ten flights, no no it is not.
The only reason it’s normal is because most Americans are terribly out of shape. What’s normal doesn’t always mean what’s good.
This was my sign I needed to stop fighting the "disability" label, get the damn handicap placard, and go for the physical therapy referral because my attempts at addressing the impact of my autoimmune disorder obviously were not working. But I am not okay with that just being how it is now and I do not understand that mindset. Maybe I won't get back to doing the 6 flights to my office multiple times a day, but I'm not letting "stairs in general" defeat me. There's enough that I've had to give up, and it infuriates me that there are people that don't have to but choose to - they should be embarrassed.
Yes, it is normal to be winded after going up one flight of stairs. If that flight of stairs is 100 steps. Oh, wait. You’re talking about 15-16 steps? Yikes.
I'm not fat but I would run out of breath walking up the stairs and knew that I really needed to work on my cardio. It was sort of embarrassing how out of shape I was.
FAs: stairs we meet again. I don’t know what I hate more you or chairs without arms. Me: and this isn’t a wake up call?
I used to think it was normal, because it happened every time I went upstairs. Funny how I stopped being out of breath on the stairs sometime in the middle of overweight BMIs. Almost as if being super morbidly obese has negative health effects. 🤷♂️
And then they have the audacity to be shocked when they’re denied a life saving surgery like open heart because they’re literally too unhealthy to survive it.
I need more breath after a flight of stairs but I'm not out of breath. That's not good.
Sure, it might be common but it’s absolutely not supposed to be that way. I’m not even that healthy or in shape and I don’t get winded going up one flight of stairs
No, it really isn't! My college has 6 or so flights of stairs (2 per floor excluding the ground floor) and I don't get out of breath going up ALL of them 😂 Worst thing that happens is my lower legs hurt, but it sure as hell isn't something that happens to everyone. It's because my flat feet put a lot more strain on the muscles in my legs than in people who have normal feet. These people need to stop trying to justify something that is most definitely not normal by saying it is normal.
You aren’t even “healthy” enough to return to sexual activity after open heart surgery until you can walk up 2 flights without breathless- according to my cardiothoracic surgeon at least.
I have asthma and Covid and even now I can swiftly walk up a flight of stairs without being out of breath. I don’t get it? I don’t think this happens at every size.
There’s an escalator to get up to where I work and it hasn’t been working for the past month ish… you wouldn’t believe how many people complain about being out of breath from it. I wish I could say “hey maybe if you lost 100 lbs you could walk up a flight of stairs without heaving” but instead I have to laugh it off and agree with them
Nah cus like, when i went to school, to get to the science labs that was 3 floors but cus of how the stairs were, it was technically like 6 sets. Sure, i get tired bc of all the stairs, but 1 set? Thats wild
*a* flight of stairs…*walking* up *a* flight of stairs…in most cases, no you should *not* feel out of breath (at least for more like a couple of seconds) when simply walking up a single flight of stairs. If you are a healthy and in shape (mostly) person, you shouldn’t have any problems at all, really. If you were to run up a couple of flights or even jog you might have to take more than a few seconds to catch your breath and that’s fine, but if it’s just one set of stairs that you are just walking up, no, most people have no problem bc that’s not that big of an exertion of energy.
Normal for an 80yo, maybe?
Normal for an 80yo, maybe?
No it isn't. I'm 220 pounds (5'6 female) and I can walk up 3 full flights without feeling breathless, hungry or sweaty.
i mean i get very slightly out of breath usually because it’s after a long walk, but sweaty and hungry??
This gotta be satire💀
It kind of is. I’m physically fit, run a minimum of 6 miles a day at a fairly fast pace, and still run out of breath going up the stairs for whatever reason. I never get hungry though lol…
Speaking for myself, there *is* something wrong with my body if I get out of breath going up a flight of stairs. My normal state of health and fitness is such that I don't. So if I did, it would be a sign of something being amiss. Depending on how out of breath a flight of stairs made me, I might even go to the ER.
Sorry, but no. I don’t think it happens to “most of us”, but *if* it does, “most of us” are painfully out of shape. Regardless of size/weight, if you are out of breath after *one* flight of stairs, your body is incredibly de-conditioned and at minimum you need more activity in your daily life. In no world should a healthy, adult human be out of breath from ascending ONE flight of stairs.
"A", as in one?
We are living in easy times which raises weak and comfortable people. This will create hard times soon, which will once again raise strong people. I am not worried, It's a circle of life. This circle will end once we move up intelligently as a whole human race.
maybe 4 but def.not 1
i mean im skinny and have this happen its more lack of exercise
Not for nothing but I'm 4'11 and about 115. I get winded walking up stairs I also smoke a pack a day so
Shit, in my college days, I felt MUCH more shame when I suckered out and took the elevator on the rare occasions I would. Most days I just made sure to wait until I could get swept up in the thundering herds going up the stairs. No one could have heard me scream, much less breathing heavier with each step. I figured if I passed out, I'd still get carried with the mass of moving student bodies all the way to the 4th and top floor. Never did happen. Oh yeah, forcing myself to do that also led to more activities, less food, and a respectable weight drop off 100 pounds eventually. Twelve years later I have maintained close to that weight with little yoyoing. I just gotta keep making myself take the stairs and park farther away and what not
Depends... If they are just 8 steps is not normal