Is the gym ‘size-friendly’?

“My big old tree-trunk legs are [an] embarrassment,” says Holman, 28, of Lockport, Ill. “When I go to a kickboxing class or aerobics class where there are walls of mirrors, I just want to be sick, especially when I am hiding in the back of the class and the skinny little girls up front, who are not afraid of the mirrors, look at me with disgust.”

I read this today on the front page of MSN. This is soooo true. I myself have felt this way. And this blog isnt going to be just another, ‘fat girl complaint’.  Im just saying that its true. Now here is how I see myself. Yes I am overweight…I know that, its ok, but I dont consider myself morbidly obese(sp) because Im not. I do work out, and I didnt get this way, because I ate too much either. I have a cute Face, Chubby waist, thats all.   But in the Gym, when I am working out, I have seen others, far worse then myself try to sit upon that skinny little ass bike seat. Im sure that woman( I will call her Flo, would have loved to burn some carbs if only she could sit down.  This world is crazy. First we invite fast food, and make it so convienent for those to go to, so we do, and then we become so big, that now we are forced to work out(which I personaly think that everyone should work out anyways) but when a 500 lb woman, Flo comes in to the gym, she is stared at first,, then we she tries to use the equipment she cant fit in it, and all the tred mills, have a 350 lb limit. Whats this woman gonna do? We need to be more gym ‘size-friendly’.  This country has the biggest obesity(sp) problem in the world…why?  Why do we have more people with diabetes here?? Why?  I think what happened is that we got money hungry a long time ago, and ditched everything natural that God intended us to have. It’s so easy to be fat now adays. Its easy. And now with all hidden sugars, and counting our carbs, and checking labels, its just crazy. I just wish someone could just stop it all. I wish we could just turn back the hands of time, and fix where we went wrong, that way we can help these people, and ourselves. I hated seeing the way Flo looked, when after preparing herself to go into 24 hr fitness, and then realizing that the only thing she can actually do is free weights, she was digruntld and left. I wish I could help her.

2 comments November 15, 2006