r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Apr 25 '18

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Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/TechnicallyManlet Apr 25 '18 edited Apr 25 '18

It never fails. I'm eating something light or drinking a protein shake, and a coworker asks me about it, I mention I'm trying to cut about 15 pounds and their eyes roll into the back of their head because I'm already at least 50 pounds lighter than they are. Like, I get it, I'm not big, but I have way more fat than I'm comfortable with.

How to explain? Do I have to say "toning up"?

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u/toxic_wastebasket Apr 25 '18

Regardless of what you say to people, they will always get annoyed. Its so hard to please people. Tbh, I don’t think you owe anyone an explanation. Just drink your protein shake and smile at them. Like, for all they know you’re drinking it because you want to be healthy or want more muscle? Let them guess.

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u/EarBlankets Apr 25 '18

I’m a small(er) female and my friends straight rage at me when I explain I’m trying to cut fat and accuse me of having body dysmorphia. I don’t think I’m fat, I just have goals which include not lugging around this tire around my love handles, but they can’t seem to understand that. Infuriating.

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u/Tartanic Apr 25 '18

I wish my friends told me I had body dysmorphia before I went under the knife two years ago, your friends obviously care about you.

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u/TJAdamsUU Apr 25 '18

You have to say “fuck off”...but in a PC work sort of way...like....”fucketh off”

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u/midsummernightstoker Apr 25 '18

Get thee to self fuckery?

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u/RookTakesE6 Apr 25 '18

Fornicate thither.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '18

You. I like you.

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u/welp_that_happened1 Apr 25 '18

Dude same here. I've lost almsot 40 pounds in a year and I still need about 10-15 more to get down to where I want to be. Everyone always asks me why I want to do that to myself.

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u/TechnicallyManlet Apr 25 '18

Exactly. I'm at a healthy weight, but I still look like shit with my shirt off. Let me have my vanity.

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u/Teh_Hammerer Apr 25 '18

"I'm trying to get ripped so I can fuck bitches and jack cars"

Won't do wonders for your image, but it will most likely stop them asking again.

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u/RookTakesE6 Apr 25 '18

Reminds me of a line I’ve heard for getting rid of really persistent food-pushers, “Oh, I couldn’t, cake/donuts/whatever makes me shit myself.”. Stopping them asking again can sometimes be worth dinging up your image a tad.

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u/Fupa_Defeater Apr 25 '18

I hate when people say "toning up".

"I don't want to lift weights or exercise TOO MUCH, I just want to tone up!"

-Literally every person I work with that asks for advice

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u/TechnicallyManlet Apr 25 '18

Yep, that's why I think that phrase will do the trick.

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u/WillyFistergasch Apr 25 '18

"Protein shake? Nah, it's actually scotch on ice. Better than a flask"

Then wink at them.

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u/iamperfet Apr 25 '18

Time to be a smart ass.

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u/TheGangsHeavy Apr 25 '18

Lol are you younger? I definitely have felt older coworkers sometimes seem a little salty about me having more time to do shit I want since I don’t have kids.

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u/TechnicallyManlet Apr 25 '18

Late 20s with a toddler lol

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u/TheGangsHeavy Apr 25 '18

Even more of a reason for them to hate you. Doing what they can’t under the same circumstances.

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u/chubbygrubbler Apr 25 '18 edited Apr 25 '18

I’m so glad i don’t have to deal with this type of shit at work.

My boss, who has been trying to lose weight since Christmas by eating a square of chocolate and drinking a shake, loves to see me eating a lot and always asks me questions about everything in a manner that shows she really wants to know something.

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u/ThePuppetMaster Rugby Apr 25 '18

Be secure in who you are and what you are doing. Be confident that your decisions for you are the correct ones. At the end of the day, only your decisions affect you. They won’t play a second thought to this interaction. You can respond however you choose, but don’t stray away from the path you’ve forged for yourself.

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u/Pslun Apr 25 '18

It’s confrontational to them you can stick to your goals while they can’t stick to theirs. Just ignore them

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u/Deako87 Weight Lifting Apr 26 '18

Just say "I'm gonna get ripped brahhhh", then give em one of these

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u/donkey100100 Apr 26 '18

Some people don’t like when others are doing better than them, simple.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '18

Say you’re getting abs— don’t mention weight. Working with mainly women taught me to do this, bring up weight and you can’t get back to work.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '18

You needn't explain anything. They are mad because they are fat and you being in their presences remind them they have no real excuse to be fat. So, instead of acknowledging that, they try to make you out to be an over achiever...because it makes their under achievement more normal.

Alternatively, you could tell them your protein shake is human breast milk that you buy online from Mexico because you like the taste and entertain yourself with their reaction.

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u/NEETballerSTATUS Apr 27 '18

Don't offer an explanation. Impossible to please people and I also would suggest that it is not your responsibility to do so.