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In reply to the discussion: Fit mother attacked on Facebook [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)I have no excuse. I should be fitter than I am.
That's why people are getting so mad at her. We really have been making up excuses for ourselves for quite a while now. I'm big boned. I have the fat gene. I'm busy. My feet hurt. I don't feel like it.
I sit over here eating coconut cream pie like it's going out of style and wonder why I'm stuck at 155 pounds. Thank R'hllor I'm muscular or I'd look like a ball of dough.
We live good lives in 21 century America. A lot of us go to work and sit down all day long, a break for us is standing up and stretching our legs. We leave there and run to our cars then sit down and drive home. Now we are so tired from all that work. So we flop down into our favored sitting location and watch tv and eat snacks. Then we sit and eat dinner. Then we sit and watch tv. Then off to bed.
I know this is how I got fat. Like 215 pounds after I had my baby. I'm only 5'3". I went to Target to purchase a video starring one of those persnickety fitness enthusiasts.I had to do something, but I hated the toned, glowing women on the boxes smirking at me. I didn't have much time to devote to this 'excercising' thing I was supposed to do to lose weight but I figured half an hour a day ought to be plenty.
Then one of the DVDs was calling out to me, it was 30 day shred by that Jillian lady from the biggest loser. It was half an hour and had three difficulty levels. She guaranteed ' You will lose 30 pounds in 30 days' if you do it every day.
By the time I sweated and flopped my way through the first session I no longer hated her, and her glowing toned abs. I hated her for the pain. But it worked. It was more than the 30 pounds in 30 days. And when I'm ready to lose the last 30,I'll pick up another of those condescending DVDs where fit women trash talk me and I'll love hate her the whole time.
I wonder if this lady makes one. Hmmm. If it's 30 dollars or less I'll buy it. I could love hate her for a month.