I've just got to BITCH for a minute
I just blew up on a guy at work. I'm going to lay down a thread here and i'm going to bitch my side of this thing. Feel free to sound in and join me or bitch back at me but here goes:
This wuss guy keeps whining about his weight. He's like late 30s (my age) and he's picking up weight and he's whining about it. He's "trying" to lose weight and not succeeding. His regimen includes - get ready for this - climbing the stairs (4 flights) on the way to the office every morning instead of taking the elevator. He parks in the back of the parking lot and walks a whopping 5 minutes maybe to the building too. He drinks diet coke and skips the cheesebuger/fries lunch and opts for soup instead sometimes and he's just not dropping those pounds.
He made a comment to me the other day about me being so lucky because i'm thin and muscular and I don't have to worry about my weight like he does (oh poor me everybody cry for me). He was whining that he might actually have to start exercising and going hungry to lose the weight (wa wa wa).
I laid in on this punk. I told him "get your pussy ass in the gym and do some real exercise and start eating a real diet and shut the fu*k up about it. I've been working out since Reagan was running for re-election and watching my diet since Gorbachev left office. I'm not thin and muscular because God handed me this body on a silver platter I worked for it. Yes you have to actually exercise and yes you will go hungry sometimes to lose the pounds big fuc*ing deal. Either do something real about it or shut the hell up."
I think he deserved it (he's not a very likeable guy anyway). I get so sick and tired of the attitude that I'm so lucky to have this body like I was just born this way. Gimme a break. Eat my diet one day and drag your ass in the gym with me and i'll show you what luck really is!
Re: Well, since you asked...
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Originally posted by TNT
catharsis. (Look it up, boys and girls.)
A cleansing of the tragic emotions....and I didn't even have to look it up ;)
Re: I've just got to BITCH for a minute
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Originally posted by hammerhead
I think he deserved it (he's not a very likeable guy anyway). I get so sick and tired of the attitude that I'm so lucky to have this body like I was just born this way. Gimme a break. Eat my diet one day and drag your ass in the gym with me and i'll show you what luck really is!
ouch!!!!!!!!
but soooooooooooooooooo true
Re: Well, since you asked...
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Originally posted by TNT
No, his attitude is not lazy at all, it's simply ignorant - he obviously lacks knowledge about what he should be doing.
Most of your reply was on target as usual, but I disagree with you on this tnt. He may not be completely knowledgable about dieting and weight-training, but he is also lazy. Lazy as most people? Maybe not, but nevertheless lazy.
Let's look at the individual case...
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Originally posted by gettinthere
Most of your reply was on target as usual, but I disagree with you on this tnt. He may not be completely knowledgable about dieting and weight-training, but he is also lazy. Lazy as most people? Maybe not, but nevertheless lazy.
I'll concede this as a general point, gettinthere, but let's review the specific individual that hammerhead described: He does walk stairs, he does park far, and he does avoid junk food. My take is that he doesn't know what else he should do because he hasn't been shown, or that he hasn't known where to look. Even intelligent people can have their heads up their butts on issues like this.
But as a general rule, I agree with you fully. On the other hand, most people who say, "Oh, I couldn't do that" are not doing anything. They're taking the elevator, parking close, and pigging out on grease and fat.
By the way, for what it's worth, I have a confessino to make. I know that this is gonna sound weird, and y'all can tell me I'm wimping out (alright, that's rhetorical - I can hear you saying it already), but . . . One of the gyms I occasionally go to is on two floors. The cardio area is on the second floor, and you can take an elevator or walk the steps to get there.
I always take the elevator. I admit it. I'm lazy. It's a head thing. But once I get to the second floor, I generally hit the stair climber for about a half-hour, or the eliptical crosstrainer for upwards of an hour at high incline and tight resistance. In other words, I do more high-resistance cardio than most of the guys putting on a show in the weight room, but I take the elevator. Which proves what? (Rhetorical question. It proves, of course, nothing. But there will always be some dickhead who uses crap like that as a measure of cocksmanship. And, if you measure life in elevators versus stairs, especially at work, hanmmerhead's colleague is better than I am.)
That said, let me ask a rhetorical question in closing: Who is worse off, the guy who has the balls to walk four flihts of stairs when he could take an elevator, or the fat woman who walks on a treadmill at the gym while she watches a soap opera? (The answer? We don't know. Because we have to look at the big picture.)