Stigma attached to going to the gym

hansfrei · 16-10-2013 02:40PM

Would a curry chicken pie count as a cake? If you really liked them?

Lyaiera · 16-10-2013 02:44PM

hansfrei wrote: »

Would a curry chicken pie count as a cake? If you really liked them?

If you can stick a candle in it on your birthday it counts as a cake.

salacious crumb · 16-10-2013 02:48PM

Artful_Badger wrote: »

Full grown apple slice is an apple tart.

This sexualisation of minors has gone too far. Too far I tells ya.

MrBizzles · 16-10-2013 02:49PM

My main gripe is that just because a person is in good shape & looks after there body they could essentially end up missing out on things..for example say someone in the office wins a selectiom box this Christmas & they dont want it, there giving it away..by the cake logic shown yesterday i dont stand a chance of getting that selection box, wont even been considered for it cause theres an assumption that all i eat is chicken breasts & broccoli. If there was a chicken breast/broccoli selection box id get that no problem though

sheesh · 16-10-2013 02:52PM

Mr bizzles you are obsessed with your phsique and you like to rub everyone nose in it.

today you got your
*takes off glasses
just desserts

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

razorblunt · 16-10-2013 02:52PM

MrBizzles wrote: »

I work in an office on a project team, yesterday we finished off a project that we had spent months on. To celebrate the project leader decided to buy us all cakes from the local bakery. One of the girls was put on the cake getting duties,She went around the whole team taking everyones cake request..when she got to me she just assumed i wouldnt want cake..her exact words were "you wouldnt want any cake would ya??" & she was dead serious about it..gave me the your getting no cake look

I go the gym quite regulary & to be quite frank about it, im in fairly good nick. other people on the team who are carrying a bit of timber, they were getting there cake & eating it..no questions asked. Now im not one of these lads who looks at food packs for saturated fats/carbs etc or who doesnt sink pints of a saturday night because of the calories they contain..i train 4 days a week & eat /drink what i want

I wanted cake & lots of it..Now i did get my cake in the end, but only after i was subjected to shock & awe...people were saying you will have to stay in the gym for an extra hour tonight...what??? Even when i was eating my cake it felt a bit like people were looking at me thinking i cant believe hes having a bit of cake

Has anyone else been a cake victim simply because they look after themselves? Or you been the victim of the reverse scenerio where your carrying a bit of timber & people just assume your mad for cake?

Send that to @everydaysexism account on twitter. If they dont post it, try it again leading them to believe your female ...instant RT.

salacious crumb · 16-10-2013 02:53PM

Are you not built enough to bring the pain to all these motherf*ckers and just take the damn selection box?

razorblunt · 16-10-2013 02:54PM

sheesh wrote: »

Mr bizzles you are obsessed with your phsique and you like to rub everyone nose in it.

today you got your
*takes off glasses
just desserts

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

She must have been a tart.

Lyaiera · 16-10-2013 02:56PM

razorblunt wrote: »

Send that to @everydaysexism account on twitter. If they dont post it, try it again leading them to believe your female ...instant RT.

I'd say it's a couple of characters too long for a twitter post.

Tiddlypeeps · 16-10-2013 03:00PM

Maybe she felt bad about tempting you? If I knew someone was looking after themselves (eating well, gym etc) then I would feel bad tempting them. I think there is nothing worse than when I am trying to do the whole eating healthy and exercising thing and someone comes along with free cake so if the roles were reversed I would feel bad offering the the cake.

It could also be simple begrudgery but if that were the case then surely the person would find more pleasure in watching you succumb to the temptations the rest of us mere mortals regularly struggle with.

hansfrei · 16-10-2013 03:03PM

Was yer wan hot? Did you tell her "instead of the nice cake I'll give you a good stuffing? "

hansfrei · 16-10-2013 03:07PM

Er... Or a creampie?

WoollyRedHat · 16-10-2013 03:15PM

I am pie wrote: »

Maybe they just think you're a bit of a tool and didn't want to give you any cake.

Shut up and let me eat you!!!

cruiser178 · 16-10-2013 03:16PM

MrBizzles wrote: »

No i never mention it,

MrBizzles wrote: »

i do bring my gym bag into work

i do have a t shirt that has the word GYM across it.

Theres also a lad called Jim that works for a company id be in contact every day with my t shirt on and my gym bag over my shoulder

but other than that theres no mention gym from me

Wonder where they would have got that big idea from

wazky · 16-10-2013 03:17PM

I usually detach my stigma before I go to the gym, gets in the way.

WoollyRedHat · 16-10-2013 03:18PM

Whoever has casual clothing that tries to subtly but firmly indicate that yes, I do work out, wanna see me flex? deserves the stigma of having no cake or worse. ( food wise, relax!)

Burn that t-shirt if you have any dignity

jimgoose · 16-10-2013 03:19PM

MrBizzles wrote: »

...carrying a bit of timber...

Is this like "getting wood"??

Karl Stein · 16-10-2013 03:24PM

Every notice how some fat people dress like cake?

Aglomerado · 16-10-2013 03:27PM

Charlie Rock wrote: »

Every notice how some fat people dress like cake?

Cake Jumper.

tmc86 · 16-10-2013 03:28PM

muffin top

MrBizzles · 16-10-2013 03:30PM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Whoever has casual clothing that tries to subtly but firmly indicate that yes, I do work out, wanna see me flex? deserves the stigma of having no cake or worse. ( food wise, relax!)

Burn that t-shirt if you have any dignity

Its not something i would have purchased myself.My girlfriend bought me that tshirt for my birthday, ive no idea where she bought it but its my favourite tshirt, it could have "d!ckhead" written across it & i would still wear it.. She usually buys me oversized clothing or clothes that are to small but she got that one right, done well

EyeSight · 16-10-2013 03:31PM

Don't worry. It's just the jealous ones. The ones who accuse anyone with muscle in the gym of "being on steroids". The ones who don't have time and have other excuses instead. The ones who, if they're feeling guilty about their fitness will come directly to you to tell you they're going to start going the gym(like you care right?)

I let them keep their insecure stigma, I can't hear them over all the bitches i get

Snako · 16-10-2013 03:35PM

I have this exact problem, eat healthy exercise regularly, one cake or biscuit and I'm ridiculed.

It's one way abuse, dare I mock some of my fatter colleagues lifestyle choices!

First world problem though, I'm hardly a victim, or at least I don't feel like one!

I'll take it as jealousy and recognition, and eat cake whenever the f***k I wanna eat cake!

WoollyRedHat · 16-10-2013 03:37PM

MrBizzles wrote: »

Its not something i would have purchased myself.My girlfriend bought me that tshirt for my birthday, ive no idea where she bought it but its my favourite tshirt, it could have "d!ckhead" written across it & i would still wear it.. She usually buys me oversized clothing or clothes that are to small but she got that one right, done well

I'm only ribbing you.

However on the subject of gym culture, and it really has gotten worse and worse in the last few years, people who obsess about the gym and make a point of it to everyone that they go to the gym and use "Bro" speak on a daily basis, that has gone past the point of parody... these are the types that should be quartered and hanged, then burnt at the stake if they're still alive after that.

Nothing wrong with going to the gym and keeping fit, it's just the ones who make a point to let everyone know constantly and berate those who don't that are really irksome.

FreshKnickers · 16-10-2013 03:37PM

Leave the mans shirt out of this. Sure I have a t shirt with CAKE written on it.

musicfan1ie · 16-10-2013 03:37PM

People have a weird relationship with weight or fitness. If you train 3or 4 days a week and talk about marathons / triathlons, they tend to think you're an alien if you do it long term. I used to get some comments from people when I was exercising a lot.

Now, I've put on a couple of stone, I have one friend who takes great delight in telling me that I'm a fat bastard, even though he's a good 2 stone heavier than me.

Lyaiera · 16-10-2013 03:38PM

Maybe she didn't know you were going to the gym. Maybe she thought you were getting a bit tubby?

WoollyRedHat · 16-10-2013 03:40PM

Lyaiera wrote: »

Maybe she didn't know you were going to the gym. Maybe she thought you were getting a bit tubby?

Want to get rid of that stigma you've been carrying around? No problem, let us turn that stigma into insecurity straight away!

Snako · 16-10-2013 03:43PM

Don't know about anyone else but I'd love some cake right now

FixdePitchmark · 16-10-2013 03:44PM

I think it is one thing as a project team leader to say let them eat cake, but to then not give some to one, is trying to have their cake and eat it.

It's just not on.

Stigma attached to going to the gym

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