Comments on: Fat Gyms: Not Such A Bad Idea?

By: Chubby Mommy

Chubby Mommy — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:14:37 +0000

The nearest one is across state line. YMCA’s site claims it’s only 10 miles away. They’re wrong: it’s a good 30 minute drive one way.

By: Tari

Tari — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:44:18 +0000

How about the YMCA? Ours is new and nice and has all kinds of work out equipment and classes, but since there are chi-chi “private gyms” all over the place here, it is mercifully free of the 40 year old mothers of 3 who are thinner than I was at 17, and also the young, surgically enhanced types (they go to the big meat market gyms, I assume). Instead, we have a nice mix of moms, retirees, and even a number of young Muslim women (in long pants, long sleeve shirts and head coverings) who enjoy the Y because you can work out dressed like that and no one pays any attention to you. There are some “big guys” over in the free weight section, but since they don’t have anyone to leer at, they keep to themselves. And as William says above, they are there to work, so maybe they wouldn’t bother to leer even if one of us was worth looking at.

I know some magazine keeps ranking Houston as one of the fattest cities in the US (based on the number of restaurants per capita, I think) but we are really spoiled for choice if you want to work out - at least indoors. Outside - are you nuts? Who needs lots of hike and bike trails and green belts when it’s 106 in the shade with the heat index? I can see the park quite nicely through the windows at the Y, while on an elliptical machine with it’s own little fan.

By: Carin

Carin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:46:49 +0000

You have to find the good time to go - when the beautiful people are elsewhere. Two in the afternoon is perfect.

I think I need a trainer. I can do gobs of cardio on my own, but I’m horrible with the rest of it.

By: Mad William Flint

Mad William Flint — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:39:31 +0000

Do freeweight and machine lifting work at a gym.

Nobody gives anyone any crap like that.

Even the muscles on muscles guys who’ve optioned out of having necks know that people who are there to work are there to work.

By: Weight Loss

Weight Loss — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:51:23 +0000

The most important requirement for weight loss is motivation and determination. And such idiot comments from the ladies were actually a test for your determination. You should have continued going to the gym, worked hard and should have shown them how stupid they were to comment on you. But do not worry, not all people who go to gym are like those girls. I joined gym sometime ago and people their helped me. So buckle up lady.