lately, everyone at the hotel wants to lose weight. this from a crowd who smokes, drinks, and frequently enjoys the easy access to all kinds of food from the hotel kitchen.
there's my lil bro's gf, who's now in jenny craig and has rediscovered the gym because she's intent on losing 20 pounds.
there's the front desk girl who i don't know much about except that according to the guys about 40 pounds ago she was fit for a hip-hop video. that and she is seriously considering getting a boob job. she doesn't strike me as the type to know much about nutrition or exercise, but i could be wrong.
there's my friend MH who smokes and never sleeps. he works 2 jobs meaning he parties twice as hard. how he manages to play league soccer once a week i'll never know.
then there's me. a sometimes diligent worker-outer who eats like its her job because she is constantly surrounded by fabulous food at work and at home.
it appears us "dieters" fit into 2 camps: the wanna-be-skinniers and the wanna-be-fitters. this is a reality show competition in the making. it's like a science experiment and i'm interested in seeing whose approach "wins". i hate to make it about who will "win" because weight loss is very personal. and maybe i'm the only one who in their mind has made it a competition. when everyone around you gets fat together, you don't feel as fat. but if everyone starts getting smaller, you don't want to be the one left with a fat ass and doughnut crumbs on your belly.
though when MH told me that his plans for getting back in shape entailed going to the gym with me, i was pretty impressed. for a dude to say to a chick, help me get in shape i thought was pretty cool. i told him very sternly though that the only way i would work out with him was if he quit smoking, he agreed on the spot threw out his pack of cigs and went to the store on his lunch break to buy the nicotine gum. wow.
so last night, even though i already got my swim workout in and i had a long run planned for today, we went to spin together. and let me just say it helps TREMENDOUSLY having a workout buddy in a class like spin. i'm not convinced we should run together, but taking a class that i take only because i know it's good for me with someone even goofier than me makes it much more bearable.
i think he's hooked. and i think having a gym buddy might just make some parts of my training much more fun and therefore much more regular.
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It seems that January and June are the two months when people resolve to lose weight: One is the start of the new year and the other is the start of summer (aka, bikini season).
Personally, I think the only way to lose weight and maintaint he weight loss is to think it terms of being "fitter" and healthier instead of thinking "skinny" especially since "skinny" does not always = healthy.
Yay for the gym buddy, and I love your reality show idea! This is something I've been thinking about for a while. Seems to me that the people who do this for health are the ones that make it a life habit. I know too many people that jump on the "i wanna look good" bandwagon and fall off a few months down the road.
"...you don't want to be the one left with a fat ass and doughnut crumbs on your belly"
LOL - thank you for making me laugh out loud! :)
It's nice to have a gym buddy every once and a while! I think I would fall into the wanna-be-fitter group...and lose a bit of weight!
Definite laughs on the fat ass comment. I think it's a combo of how you look, how you feel, hoe you carry yourself, and how you feel about how you look-- whatever... you still don't want a fat ass, though.
Workout partners rock. I miss my running club in NH, and I miss my gym partner, my old First Sergeant. He was a freakin' animal, and he motivated me. JKRunning is a great partner. She makes me SLOW DOWN, and she's not afraid to call me a bitch if it's warranted!
That's great that you have a gym buddy and I can imagine it makes spin class a lot more bearable. Running with others once a week is enough for me, I like the alone time to develop wacky ideas.
I like your at work Biggest Loser competition and I'd certainly think about it that way. I am an intensely competitive person, but I find that a lot of people aren't willing to admit they are the same way.
You don't need to lose weight. At all. Get that idea out of your silly head.
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