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When I went off to college I felt pretty good about my weight. Granted, I wasn’t thin by any stretch of the imagination, but I was healthy. I liked how I looked in my clothes.
But – and you know the drill – it didn’t take long for me to start packing on the pounds. And while I’d love to tell you a kicky little story about how I went home for summer vacation bound and determined to kick the freshman 15 in the teeth, the fact of the matter is that I was waaaaay past “15” at that point. I’d passed “15” sometime around Thanksgiving. Something about eating cheeseburgers and fries really late at night and developing the misguided mentality that a two-piece fried chicken dinner (with red beans and rice, French fries and a biscuit) constituted a perfectly healthy lunch.
Needless to say, I was big friends with elastic the summer after my freshman year.
I lost a little bit of weight that summer thanks to a whole lot of exercise, but since I was working in Atlanta and eating out a ton, the weight didn’t fall off like I’d hoped it would. So flash forward to the end of my sophomore year, when I was still carrying around some of that excess freshman baggage plus a few pizza-related pounds from my sophomore year. I wanted a diet that would give me results. And fast.
This was right around the time when liquid diets became wildly popular. Lots of people bought different flavored shakes in the grocery store, and other folks favored a liquid diet that was supervised by a doctor. I decided to go the doctor-supervised route since I was such a bastion of maturity and responsibility. After all, I had once tried to lose upwards of 15 pounds over the course of 4 days by eating nothing but popcorn for my meals.
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In retrospect I’m not entirely sure why I thought a liquid diet would work for me; after all, I’ve been known to crave the texture of certain foods so much that I’ll plan a whole meal around them (I’M TALKING TO YOU, GUACAMOLE). But since the liquid diet promised big results, I figured I could endure it long enough to drop those pesky extra pounds. And I figured that if I was really desperate to chew something, I could go to town on some sugarless gum.
Extra Wintergreen and I became very close that summer. Inseparable, really.
The first week of the liquid diet was fine. It actually felt a little bit like detox, which wasn’t a bad thing given all the junk I’d eaten during finals. I don’t necessarily know if our bodies are meant to consume a two-liter of Mountain Dew and a bag of Cheddar and Sour Cream potato chips in one marathon-study sitting, so I kind of enjoyed the break from sugar and your various and sundry simple carbohydrates. And after about seven days, I felt GOOD. Sassy, even.
The second week was a little more difficult. I wasn’t just hungry. I was HAWNGRY. And even though there were a few “foods” I could eat – chicken or beef broth, for example – they didn’t really have the crunch or texture or, you know, flavor that I was looking for. But I was a good little dieter, and I felt so encouraged by the nurse and the doctor who were supervising me that I was resolved to keep on keepin’ on. With my Extra Wintergreen by my side AT ALL TIMES, DON’T YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT ASKING ME FOR A PIECE.
At some point during the fourth week I made a trip to a big discount store with my mother. By that point I’d lost about 12 pounds, I think, so the good news was that my clothes were fitting better than they had in awhile. The bad news was that I was weak as a kitten. Mama and I hadn’t been in the discount store more than five minutes when I had to find a patio set on display so that I could sit down for a bit, and Mama knew me well enough to know that I just wasn’t feeling well.
I’ll never forget how she leaned over me with a look of concern on her face and said, “Is there anything I can do for you? Anything that would make you feel better?”
And y’all, I will never forget my response. My 19 year-old self looked up at my mama and said one very important word with determination and clarity: “Meat. MEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT.”
I kid you not: we left that store, drove home, and Mama cooked me two petite sirloin steaks right then and there. Cooked them in the cast iron skillet. And if you’re wondering how I remember that, it’s because OH MY LANDS IT IS A PRECIOUS MEMORY.
I learned a great lesson that day: any weight loss plan has to have balance at its core. I continued with the liquid diet for the rest of the summer, but I also ate small meals with real food. It took me a few weeks, but I finally figured out that man should not live by liquid alone.
Or, for that matter, popcorn.
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During my college years, I was a daily visitor to the student rec center. I especially enjoyed the step aerobics classes. One afternoon, in a packed studio, I was hopping around the room with the other girls when I noticed that my shorts weren’t moving right; they weren’t giving in the right places. It was more noticeable when I bent forward. Long story short: I had put my shorts on backwards. What’s worse is that they were a pair of “fashionable” boxers, so the little flap was showing my rear all afternoon.
I started playing soccer this summer, and even though I am MUCH heavier than in my old soccer days, I tried to do the same moves. I was so sore that I would go to sit on the toilet because the cool toilet seat felt so good on the sore muscles on my backside!
I was shamed out of the Wii balance board, b/c I couldn’t keep my balance! I quickly learned it’s much more effective (and enjoyable) to just skip the balance part and get straight to the exercise!
I was training for a 1/2 marathon with my sister and kept running ahead of her. It was getting dark, and she kept saying I should slow down a little. About 5 minutes later – I wiped out – it was like slow motion. Then I was laughing so hard I wet my pants. Needless to say, I walked the rest of the way home and my brother in law had to drive to find us b/c it was taking so long!
Thirty years ago, I lived in a co-ed dorm at a small, cheese-eating state college. Even though I played on the tennis team, (We would aim the tennis balls at the cows in the surrounding fields.)I still managed to pack on the dining hall pounds. Soooooo, some of my guy friends in the dorm, who just so happened to be wrestlers, convinced me to don one of their plastic jogging suits and hop into the dorm’s sauna with them. The first time I emerged from the sauna, (pronounced “sow-nah” in Finlander country, by the way)I looked like a soggy, soaked prune. I was gasping for breath and started to feel faint and dizzy. It was at that point, I made the best of things. I realized I had at least three handsome, burly, hunky wrestlers hovering over me. Sooooo I faked faint, and soon had one of the guys giving me mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Bingo! I didn’t lose any wait, but I soon fell in love with a tall, dark, and handsome wrestler!
My kids are every so helpful with their encouragement(insults). I was doing a workout video and my son brought me a towel and asked me if I was going to make it.
I was trying to get excercise by swimming. I tracked 6 feet of toilet paper, stuck to my bottom, out in front of everyone at the pool.
I too tried the liquid diet. I wanted to chew on anything close, window frame, carpet, whatever! I must have something to chew on, even if it is celery!
When I was in college in the 80’s, we used to put on our sweats, those awful leg things, and headbands (yeah, we were stylin’ – lol) and exercise in the hallway of our co-ed dorm to a Jane Fonda video. Man, what a sight we were!
Zumba every week! It’s always funny but great exercise!
I bought the INSANITY workout DVD’s. Did the fit test and was so sore the next day I watched most of the second DVD and then went to the freezer for ice cream bar. :)
When I was losing weight a few years ago, I went to aerobics with my friend. She stood behind me during our sessions. When I expressed that I felt like my butt was fitting better in my jeans, she said, “Yeah, I noticed your butt, too. I do have to stand behind you and it is easier to see now =)
After my daughter was born, I decided Tae-Bo was for me. Short story: it wasn’t. It also wasn’t for my husband, whom I kicked in my sleep as I dreamed about someone hurting our new baby!
The girls at work tease me about my fickle diet habits. I start my day on weight watchers counting points. Lunch is Atkins so I have a bacon cheeseburger, no bun, of course. Then dinner is ‘everything in moderation’ so I can have a brownie.
I have a friend who has a treadmill and can’t figure out why she isn’t losing weight. She told me one day that once she moved the laundry off of it, the “holder on it was great for (her) M&Ms!” Don’t think there was any walking involved. :)
Don’t get on the wii fit for the first time with your thirteen year old son their to critique your every move, and be flabbergasted by your weight;)
Mine comes from the college years also. My roommate and I used to exercise to a Jane Fonda cassette tape and while we were doing leg lifts would yell at Jane and accuse her of really eating bon bons while telling us to “feel the burn”.
I am soooooo embarrassed to admit that in the 80’s or was it 90’s (before I had had 5 children and only THOUGHT I needed to lose weight :), I exercised to the Richard Simmons Sweating to the Oldies workout videos. I did. And kind of enjoyed it (now that part I really should never have admitted). Silly me.
A few years ago my husband decided to try the high protein diet and I, being the supportive wife, decided to join him. Our version of the diet included In-n-out burgers, protein style, of course. This means that rather than have a Double Double burger (two meat patties and two pieces of cheese plus the special sauce) wrapped in lettuce leaves rather than in a bun. Of course, since we were skipping the buns and french fries, we decided we could have TWO double double’s (that’s FOUR meat patties and FOUR pieces of cheese!) for a meal. We couldn’t understand why we weren’t losing weight because as our boys kept telling us “It’s not the TWO double doubles that are making you gain weight, it’s the buns!”
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i lost 25 pound last fall. When we came to visit my inlaws, my FIL said “where’s the rest of you?” ;)
Running in place in time with a cartoon character on my wii fit is pretty funny, I’ve heard.
My husband and I bought a Tae Bo video back when it was all the rage and tried doing it at home. We had to move the furniture out of the way to fit both of us in our living room and he still ended up accidently kicking me during a particularly enthusiastic workout session. After that, we decided it was safer for everyone if we used the video separately.
My baby was 6 months old when I decided to take an aerobics class to try to lose some of that baby weight. He was exclusively breastfed. In the middle of one of the steps, I felt something slip out of my pants leg…looked down and it was one of my nursing pads, it had jiggled out of my bra and shimmied down my pants leg and lay there looking like a small spacecraft. Humiliated, I picked it up and stuffed it in my pants pocket, and hoped no one was really paying attention…..
I’m trying to lose weight now. Baby weight, and the baby just started kindergarten this year. I’ve started walking everyday.
I’m pregnant with a 2 and 4 year old. It’s difficult to fit in exercise so I’ve done a walking video in my house a few times. Both kids have done it with me. It’s adorable to watch them trying to copy the steps and walk and do arm motions as the same time.
I have 4 sisters and we frequently make life changing pacts with each other. We have used Scarlett’s “as God is my witness” speech for every occasion from “I’ll never wait to do all of my Christmas shopping on the eve” to “I will use every one of these sweatin’ to the oldies tapes I bought” We are a diligent bunch,we hold meetings, we plan, orchestrate, make lists, delegate, encourage and then usually get sidetracked by life about two weeks into our latest venture.
So you can imagine why we will never be allowed to forget the evening our husbands came in from some male bonding event in the garage and found us huddled around the kitchen table with bowls of chips and dip, our favorite carbonated beverages and stacks of magazines,planning our latest weight loss regimen.
“What are you girls doing?”
“Looking at exercises”
“I think I have figured out why you all are struggling with the weight loss”
Yep, we still hear about that one.
I really, I mean really tried hard to loose the baby fat. Those extra pounds after my babes came along. Finally, when they’re able to sit up, stand up and walk on their own I got down to it. I had to do workouts at home cause my hubby wasn’t too keen on taking on all 3 of the kiddos at once. Big chicken! After weeks (6 in total)I walked and ran and ate properly never cheating once. The scale showed great promise and I was headed in the right direction….until my 5 year old said “Mommy, you forgot to exercise your back side cause you still jiggle back there”. Out of the mouths of babes.
I once broke a coffee table trying to use it like a weight bench for exercising haha
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When I decided I was going to try to start running..I bought the cuteset outfit, got all ready, and headed out the door. I was home in about 2 minutes…..about to DIE!!!!!
Needless to say…it took a LOT of training!
One 10K I ran had a very small turnout. And I was literally the slowest runner. At every intersection, the police would take the barriers down, shouting, “she’s the last one!”
I learned that I need to participate in BIG races!
I tried to keep up in a yoga class. I was the youngest by 15 years and everyone was outpacing me. It was embarrassing
I signed up for my insurance’s weight loss program, dubbed by me as the Chubby Club. After a month, I was kicked out for not adhering to the program. You actually had to show up to the gym and stuff. Who knew?
Due to medical restrictions I was not able to exercise AT ALL for many months. When at last I “suited up” to go for a walk it took me 30 minutes to dress/find the IPOD/find the shoes/fill the fanny pack and only 15 minutes of walking before I was whipped LOL
Just watching me attempt to exercise is a joke!
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Oh, man, when I was in high school we’d go up to the Fillmore every weekend, and dance our little behinds off to Tower of Power and Cream. . . somehow there’s never been an occasion to dance that much since. Hmmmm.
I wonder if I can scare up some old psychedelic rock’n’roll and turn the volume up to 11. . . *G*
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The other day my brother-in-law was installing a new garbage disposal on my sister’s sink. Finally he had to drag out the instructions. Of course we instantly started making fun of “a man who actually reads the instructions!”
He just grinned. I asked him if he ever stopped to ask for directions.
He said “Never. I have a GPS.”
We had a good laugh. GPS – salvage for a man’s pride! :)
In high school my best friend and I went on the ice cream diet where we ate nothing but ice cream for a week and believe it or not it worked, BUT we were only 16 then…duh!
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My husband and I tried the “LGN” diet when we were engaged. That’s right, look good naked. My roomie in college was also engaged so we all went to the gym early everyone morning. One morning we were all on the treadmills when I suddenly heard a yelp and a strange flopping sound. I look over at the roomie who is now holding onto the handle bar while her body is flopping away. She had lost her footing and fallen, but was too scared to let go with her hands, or grab the “stop” cord. Sad, but so funny to see.
Anyone old enough to remember when Jazzercise was all the rage? We were looking through some old photos a few weeks back and came across a pic of me and my sister in our Jazzercise get ups – you know, the leotard, the head band, the leg warmers – and my 6 year old wanted to know why we had scarves wrapped around our legs!
I was in high school when the Atkins Diet was all the rage…nothing but protein. I took that to heart and would come home from school and make myself a steak…from a box of Filet Mignon my father had in the freezer. Boy was he angry when he found out I had consumed the entire box as “afternoon snacks”.
I tried the cabbage soup diet while I was in college. Seems I’m allergic to cabbage! I found out the hard way when it gave me hives and made me throw up everytime I ate it that week. I have no idea why I kept eating it…but I wanted to lose weight…I ended up in the infirmary, dehydrated…but I did lose 15 lbs…the hard way!
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I love the 30 day shred, but it has to be on mute. There’s only so much Jillian Michaels that I can stand!
Did the PowerWalk videos for a while but after listening to “Walk Power Walk” over and over to the same beat day after day, I was ready to scream and eat cheetos. That was that.
My hubby has lost 40 pounds on Weight Watchers. He’s still losing so we haven’t bought him any new clothes, just wearing a belt for now. Last week at the airport security check, he had to remove his belt and hold his hands above his head. Hmmmm. Nearly ended up losing his pants. ;-)
I was trying to loose the baby weight but hadn’t really been doing any official “workouts”! so when my son was three months old I decided to go and take a yoga class. I didn’t realized how out of shape I was, and trying to keep up with everybody else during that class was probably the most hilarious 30 minutes of my life! I was falling all over the place and was a complete spaz!
Anytime my daughter and I try to exercise together, we laugh more than we exercise. Well, it is more her laughing at me. Ha. I suppose that can count as exercise though. :)
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My Best friend had Metabolife back when it was all the craze. We took *Three* Because, well, it was all natural. I got on the tredmill and ran for days….then crashed and burned. Never again. Haha!
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I’m a white girl from South Dakota – I’ll never forget my husband laughing at my “moves”!
I attended a kickboxing class last year. After the first class I couldn’t use the restroom at work without using the handicap stall. My legs were so sore that I had to have the bar to pry myself up off of the toilet.
My husband has lost a LOT of weight in the last 2 years and the major thing that has helped has been changing how we eat. This means healthier snacks. One of the things we have tried is the FiberOne Chewy Bars. Delicious! But one day, my husband called me from work an said he had terrible gas pains. Turns out – he’d eaten the FiberOne bars and it was too much fiber! The funny thing? He kept forgetting and continued to eat them, complaining every time. That’ll teach him!
Shortly after my first child was born, I did an old excercise video called “Firm Your Female Fat Zones”…then I decided that since I delivered a boy, I could keep my female fat zones!
WAY back in my early 20’s I decided I was fat (I totally wasn’t) so a group of my girlfriends and I joined a gym across town. We’d all meet and ride over there together, but 9 times out of 10 by the time we’d get across town we’d have decided to stop and get food instead!
What a waste of a gym membership. I probably only went ten times…and I gained weight eating out so often with my ‘workout’ buddies! :)
Health and Wellness was the class I took as a freshman at university. Some days they split up our class by boys & girls. We all had to do the sames exercises, lift weights, etc.
On the days that the guys were doing aerobics we made sure to come in early from doing laps. It was comical to watch the guys trying to do Jane Fonda!
Lately, I’ve found the “poverty and stress diet” to be highly effective. ;)
Well, I actually bought a Dancing with the Stars workout DVD which was SUPPOSED to be for beginners. I tried it once and am so thankful that noone was in the room with me. Since that day, it’s been hidden in the back of the DVD cabinet and will never see the light of day again!
Hasn’t everyone done this? Please tell me yes. i hid in the back of a step aerobics class in college hoping that i could get the hang of it (not so much) . . . less than halfway through the class in which i attempted to hide my stumbles and cluelessness . . . the teacher turned the class around to face the back . . . putting me in the “front”. Awesome.
Using the Eactive on the wii had some serious humor in store for our family. My youngest believes it is not a real workout without the boxing portion and she is thinking I need her to be my coach when I am not jumping high enough to get the points.
I fell off the treadmill at the gym, knocking into the person next to me and created a domino effect with two more people. so embarassing!
i lost 20 pounds last summer – not one person even noticed or at they never made any type of comment –
I did a Pre Natal exercise video with my daughter when she was pregnant….and her 6 yr old daughter joined in….funny to watch!
one day all my normal running clothes were in the dirty clothes basket, so i grabbed a short pair of nike shorts and a spahgetti strap tank top (that i normally wear to bed) for my run that day. i told my husband and the kids it would make me run faster, since i wouldnt want anyone seeing me dressed like that. when i came home, my 6 year old daughter asked… “mom, did you get any complaints?” ;)
diet schmiet!
I don’t diet, I eat healthy all the time (now that’s a funny story!)
I popped a Billy Blanks DVD in the other day to put aside good intentions and actually do something. I was really proud of myself for sticking to it for the whole 45 minutes until after that 45 minutes he says, “Okay that was a great warmup- let’s get ready to go!” I turned it off.
My idea of a diet is ‘stop eating all the chips, yo’ — so when I started working at Trim Again I felt like an impostor…soy supplements? Um, not really, but maybe a bar for a snack. No burgers? P’shaw, probably for the best since I need less meat. Take Ephedra? Well, my heart really did need some exercise I guess…
Give up my coffee? Screw you buddy, this isn’t gonna work out, sorry. Thanks for the laughs though, I quit.
There was the one time, when after losing some weight by calorie restriction, I wasn’t totally happy with my how my body was looking. It may have been slim, but it was still “doughy”.
So one of my closest friends and I decided to start a workout regimin. Neither of us could afford a gym membership, so it was going to be workout videos.
The first one we popped into the good ol’ VCR was the original “Buns of Steel”.
We were going along okay, but the guy on the video was giving us the giggles. About half way through, we were both laughing so hard, we couldn’t get up off the floor for 10mins. We had the same results the next time we tried that video. We had to take it out of rotation. However there is something to be said for laughing like that. My abs were very sore the next day, and we hadn’t even started the ab portion of the workout.
When I was pg with my first son, I went to a pregnancy aerobics class with a friend who was due two weeks after me. At the time I was working full time, so I would meet her after work for the evening class. This particular day something tickled my funny bone. I was watching (n the mirrored wall) all of us pg women dancing around the room with our big bellies, and I started giggling. I COULD NOT stop laughing. I had to stop what I was doing and bend over so that I could laugh hysterically in the hopes no one would notice. I don’t think the teacher was amused!
I was walking on the treadmil and decides to add arm exercises. You guess it. I got so involved I forgot to walk and fell right off the treadmill!! lol
My 8 year old daughter loves to go shopping with me and never hesitates to tell me exactly what she thinks of the clothes I’m trying on. “Mommy, that’s way too tight!” seems to be the most commonly heard one lately! Because I was getting so many of these comments I got her to do the 30 day shred with me. She didn’t last long but I’m happy to say I made it the whole way through!
When I first started working out with Leslie Sansone videos, my oldest was a toddler. Whenever I used my weights, he used tuna cans and followed right along, proudly hefting his tuna cans up and down–precious!
When 17yo son was about 12, he went to the gym with the big guys. He grabbed the biggest dumbbells he could lift and did as many bicep curls as he could do. The next morning, his arms were pulled up to his chest and he couldn’t straighten them. I think he learned his lesson!
I work out every day. Probably the funniest, but also the most painful moment, was when I fell off of moving treadmill.
After my freshman year of college, I dedicated myself to Richard Simmons’ Sweatin to the Oldies, using soup cans as weights. I think that’s pretty funny.
Not really an exercise story… more of a “what was I thinking?” story. I used to work at a fitness club… front desk worker and weight training. One snowy day it was so boring, I just sat out front and ate and ate and ate. Only to find I had eaten an entire dozen donuts in my 4 hour shift. Yep. At a fitness center. Bleh.
When I was in college in the early eighties, many of the girls in my dorm would meet in the cafeteria after dinner to do “aerobics”. Many times we would catch the boys from the adjoining dorm spying on us! I’m sure they were impressed with our stellar workout moves as we danced to Jane Fonda’s tapes!
I fell off the treadmill at a friend apartment gym and was sooo embarassed!
I have a serious sweet tooth. I’ve discovered that if I run several miles a day I can eat whatever I want. If I don’t run in the morning, I can’t eat candy. Those are sad days.
I was working out with some friends and we were doing The Biggest Loser workout a few years ago. I was about a 100 lbs more than I weigh now and my friends were little more petite than me. I kept up with them the whole time, especially during walking lunges. The next day I could hardly get up out of bed and forget about getting up. I hurt so much!
I once got a “diet plan” from a friend I worked with in college and I thought it would be SO easy since the plan outlined what I was to eat every single day for every single meal. I bought all of the stuff from the store and trotted home to my apartment. Fixed my first meal and promptly spit it all over my itty bitty kitchen. I learned a few things from this experience. 1) Canned beets taste like dirt. 2) Beet juice is really hard to clean out of white linoleum. 3) I likey food. I likey lots of different kinds of food. Beets and raw cabbage are not two of the foods I enjoy and I’d rather be a little on the chubby side than force them down.
I was doing this crazy diet..the hcg diet. We went out for Mothers day. We take my mom out every year. I was only allowed to eat shrimp or chicken so I chose a shrimp dish, but I could only use seasonings, not butter or oil or anything. Also had to make sure it had no sugar in the seasonings. I had to drill the waiter and she kept having to go back and see if they had ingredients and stuff. It was super embarrasing watching her make 20 trips into the kitchen. Almost had to go to the store next door and pick up a bottle of original Pam spray, as it was the only thing I was allowed to use for non stick!
Over the past six months I have lost over 35 pounds. I thought it would be a good idea to pick-up some form of exercise to try and keep it off. My 14 year old son had been wanting to take a martial arts class for a while. This seemed like it could be a good family activity. While my son is quick to pick up form and moves, his 43 year old mom (that would be me)is not. Just imagine showing up to kung fu class, going through the warm-up and the sifu saying, “tonight we are going to work on jumping round kicks”. Quite an image for a 43 year-old GRANDMOTHER. We seriously had to practice these kicks for at least 100 years (it seemed that long, anyway). Everyone else in the class is getting all this height and beauty in their kicks, and then there is me – the old lady with the bun getting about 2 inches off the ground. At least everyone got to feel better about their kicks that night, and I inspired a good deal of laughter. I can’t wait until the I walk in and sifu says, “tonight we are going to practice throwing each other to the ground”. I know it is coming…
My four year old who has seen me workout in our family room with a DVD program asked to do the workout herself. I set up everything and got her all prepared. Then, she sat down on the couch and said, “No you do it, Mommy.” I realized then that she never once intended to do the workout herself! She just wanted to watch me!
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I hate to exercise. Hate it. I only do it because I don’t want to die yet. The only fond/funny memories that I have of exercise involve a step aerobics class that my sister and I joined back in the days of Olivia Newton-John “Let’s Get Physical” headbands and leg warmers. We were young and weighed about 12 pounds soaking wet, but it was THE thing to do. We’d go and laugh our way through the torture, leave the gym and stop at Dairy Queen for Peanut Buster Parfaits. No lie. Best exercise class ever.
I’ve been on diets for as long as I can remember, I recently started trying WW but when I realized how many points wine was I had to drop it, guess that explains the weight problem huh?
Stairmaster + ripped yoga pants + granny panties = me red faced running from the gym as quickly and inconspicuously as possible….oh yeah, and never returning to that gym EVER AGAIN.
I’ve really never dieted. My funniest workout stories all involve rollerblading, because despite the fact that I’ve NEVER ONCE rollerbladed without falling, I continue to try.
After having a baby, I decided to try out the 30 day shred. As I jumped all over the living room, I realized my neighbor had stopped mowing the lawn and was looking at me through the window…eek.
30-Day Shred with Jillian for me, too. Except that I have no time to myself and have to do it with my 5 year old daughter. she listens to Jillian’s instructions and tells me what she doesn’t want to see. She also frequently reminds me, during the abs section, that “the neck is not invited to this party!.”
My husband and I were at a baseball game and since we were both dieting and that of course is almost impossible to do at a game so I convinced him that a box of Cracker Jacks weighs roughly 5 oz so we each eat the whole box we would only gain about 5 oz each then we agreed to stand up while we ate it because you know what they say “Zero calories if you stand while you eat!” We looked pretty dumb.
I had just had my baby and went to my first exercise class. I sweated and sweated for 30 minutes and then when it was time to start “abs” we all layed down on our back with our knees in the air and 3 crunches into it my intestines could not hold in the build up. There in front of 20 other women I let out the loudest toot ever recorded in history! (I didn’t go back.)
I tried to do the splits in front of my friends and my hip got stuck( pinched nerve)and I started to toss about like a fish out of water.My evil friends laughed at me.
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…used to do the Buns of Steel video. Religiously. “Squeeeeezzee those cheeseburgers out of those thighs”. (He actually says that)! ha
I worked out to Rachael Hunter’s kick boxing video one time a friend who insisted we try this video.Our living room was too small and I accidentally kicked her in the neck.I felt so bad but I did laugh and that was bad
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