Things that make you laugh!

Little odd diet or exercise coincidences that make you chuckle. I know I can't be the only one who has things like this:

The chocolate shop getting turned into a Weight Watchers :)

The Food Network being RIGHT NEXT to the fitness network :(

And I can't be the only person who goes into a gym that has a burger joint RIGHT NEXT TO IT. I'm not a burger person, but, guh, french fries. Thankfully I'm never hungry right after I work out!

The people who walk out of the gym, get into their cars, and go directly to the McDonald's drive through, which is right next door...

The Weight Watchers that is right next door to the Dunkin' Donuts...

The commercials for lite foods that come on during the ice cream cake challenge on the food network...

The people who order hamburgers and fries at restaurants and then get diet coke because they're "watching what they eat"... 

The Weight Watchers and Curves gym right next to The Habit, Quiznos, and Baja Fresh.  Makes me laugh every time.

At the gym the TVs are ALWAYS on the food channel =P

It cracks me up when I see people drive around FOREVER to find super close parking at the gym too...I mean there are plenty of spots not TOO terribly far from the gym, plus you're there for a workout anyways =P

The people who order hamburgers and fries at restaurants and then get diet coke because they're "watching what they eat"... 

Haha, yes.  Supersize, too.  The diet drink will TOTALLY even it out :P

 - people with newspapers or books on the cardio machines
 - overweight people giving pieces of advice to skinny people on how to
   loose weight:)
 - overweight personal fitness trainers
 - people who think that fries and ketchup - are two servings of
   vegetables!! - lol
 - people who think they get 64 oz of water by drinking 65 oz of coca cola    (1 oz comes from sugar i suppose:))
 - people who are afraid of putting on "too much muscles" on their armes
   by holding water bottle during running
 - very loud noises people do while weight lifting:) haha (turns everybody
   on almost!:)))
 
there are some more i am sure:)

A gym & a LA weight loss center next door to a Coldstone Creamery, ditto on people parking super close to the door at the gym... I try to park as far as can everwhere I go (Unless it's raining :-P) Personally for me, I like the taste of diet coke it's just a plus its 0 calories. Besides if I am eating 500-600 in food, I don't want to add another 300-400 in soda.

I work at a coffee shop, and over break, a couple came in and ordered grande-sized drinks made with heaving whipping cream... because they were on the Atkins diet, and clearly, it's just SUPER healthy to drink 16 oz of heavy whip....

that sign you see in upper-crust residential neighbourhoods: SLOW CHILDREN PLAYING.  cracks me up every time ;-)

people riding a bike while smoking a cigerette

i think overweight fitness trainers are funny

people picking their nose while driving b/c they think no one is watching

my sister is mormon(sorry if i misspelled it) and not allowed to drink caffene but her husband drinks 6 redbulls a day-ha hafull of caffene

i know this is just wrong but i think farting is hallarious( i shouldn't i am a 31 year old mom) it cracks me up everytime.

My sister was commenting that at the Y where she works out, a lot of people are there in Jan, then the herd really thins out. She paused, then clarified, I don't mean the same number of people getting thinner, I mean less people.

People taking the elevator down to the fitness center and then back up when they're done exercising.

The guys who strut in front of the mirror at the gym and totally check out their muscles.  The other day there was a guy that kept hiking up his sleeves in front of the mirror to get the full view of his biceps. 

My other favorite is people that are clearly lifting way too much weight and in order to do so are jerking the weight - usually by hyper-extending their back.  It is obvious that the number on the weight are more important than actually working the muscle.

 

people who say they need to lose weight but then bring in all sorts of cookies and muffins to work and then do not deny any scrap of candy offered there way adn are continuously drinking soda.

- people sitting and watching TV while on the machine you have been waiting for...either use it or get off it's not your couch.

-weird naked women who hang out in the locker room, talking on their cell phones putting on makeup, like they have so much to do before putting clothes on?

-diddo on the Food Network thing, how can you run while watching someone bake a cake.

-guys grunting and and banging the machines, I think you're overdoing it.

-people on treadmills walking slower than they would around the city. Why pay to go to gym.

Thanks for letting me vent I'll enjoy the gym much more today... 

Original Post by weightnomore:

The guys who strut in front of the mirror at the gym and totally check out their muscles.  The other day there was a guy that kept hiking up his sleeves in front of the mirror to get the full view of his biceps. 

HA.  I'm sure you are super proud of yourself, sir, but please don't mind us laughing over here.  Gym =/= fashion show :P

I love to kind of spy on people at the gym, but there's this one guy, who always does some abwork on a mat.  I can't tell exactly what he's doing, kind of a bicycle move for abs, using both arms and legs..but he looks like a beetle that got flipped onto it's back, and is squirming around.  Ordinarily he looks like a pretty sophisticated weight-lifter type.  Kind of hot actually.  But it's a hilarious move.  It's all I can do not to burst out laughing.

At the pageant I saw a lot of funny things:

-A group of girls wouldn't eat anything but fruit from their lunch. (We had packaged lunches with grilled chicken sandwiches on whole wheat bread, fruit cup, lettuce, pickles, tomatoes for the sandwich, fat-free chips, and as much water as we could take!) It was like grade school again,watching these girls try to hawk the rest of their lunch for other girls' fruit cups. It was ridiculous!

-The fact that the pageant director had pallets upon pallets of water bottles.... and a HUGE cooler of Red Bull for all the girls. Some of these girls (mind you, we're talking about 5'7, 120 lb girls) would be drinking 3-5 of these a day! I thought that was ridiculous. There was one girl, where every time I watched her open another Red Bull, I'd open myself 2 new water bottles. Worked great for me! ;)

-I thought it was so ironic that the girl who was the most worried about the evening gown portion won. She was in a lot of fitness shows, so she was used to holding her arms and body in a less-elegant way than was expected. She fretted about walking so much... and then won the "Higest Score, Non-Finalist" award for evening gown! I thought that was awesome! 

-Again with the Red Bull thing. I just think it's too gosh-darned funny! These girls are counting calories, grams of fat, and everything and anything else that enters their body... yet their sucking these down like it's happy hour on Superbowl Sunday! ENERGY DRINKS ARE NOT GOOD FOR YOU!!!! It's way better to get your energy from what you eat... something with nutrients!!! Oy ve... thanks for letting me get THAT off my chest!

One other thing I remembered (at my OWN expense!):

When I ride the stationery bikes, I ALWAYS get sweat stains on my butt, if I stay on longer than 10-15 minutes! So, I'd work out for 45 minutes on a bike and it'd look like I peed my pants. At first I was really embarrassed and would bring a sweatshirt to the gym to tie around my waist. But now I don't even care as much anymore. If there's sweat there, that means I'm working it off! Same goes for that weird cleavage-sweat. Everybody around me may think it looks hilarious, but they also know I'm working my butt off (pun intended). :)

lol, I used to be really embarrassed about how my shirt would be soaked with sweat after running.  Now I think I'd be embarrassed if it wasn't. 

Original Post by jillmenow:

lol, I used to be really embarrassed about how my shirt would be soaked with sweat after running. Now I think I'd be embarrassed if it wasn't.

 Hahaha! Exactly! I LOVE leaving the gym all sweaty now. It's like "My workout kicked my butt today, yet I lived... and I feel great!" I love it. It's second only to that achy feeling after a really great workout. :)

Original Post by missgendale:

Original Post by jillmenow:

lol, I used to be really embarrassed about how my shirt would be soaked with sweat after running. Now I think I'd be embarrassed if it wasn't.

 Hahaha! Exactly! I LOVE leaving the gym all sweaty now. It's like "My workout kicked my butt today, yet I lived... and I feel great!" I love it. It's second only to that achy feeling after a really great workout. :)

Hehe, ever since I was little and they had us run the mile I've always turned, like, brick red when I go all out.  I had to get over that embarrassed feeling REAL quick!  When I get to my car and steal a glance in the mirror and it looks like I spent about 20hours getting sunburned I KNOW it was a good workout :P