You know you've become a fitness whore when ...
- At least 75% of your wardrobe consist of workout clothes ...
- You look up caloric expenditure values for daily activities ...
- You laugh & relate to others who look up caloric expenditures ...
- Your entire day revolves around your fitness routine ...
- You walk up those damn stairs & bite your tongue without bitching because damned - that pain feels good - you worked hard for that pain!
- You can be seen stretching your tri's at your desk while on the phone ...
- When you go to the bathroom you do standing pushups on the sink-counter before leaving ...
- You admit you just did standing pushups on the sink-counter ...
- You're proud to be a fitness whore ...
- You keep your weight lifting gloves in the car so they're always available for the gym ...
- You're almost ok with your husband shaving his legs (just not stubble!) ...
- You get more excited about buying new running shoes than a new car ...
- You must read all you can about fitness & conduct fitness & nutrition experiments on yourself ...
- You begin to think of foods simply as "proteins", "carbs", "good fats", "bad fats", and have been known to call soda, coffee or similar "non-fuel" items "useless calories" ...
- Your coworkers & friends say "Oh, Jacqui wont eat that" or "Jacqui, shut up & let me eat it in peace."
- Your coworkers & friends eyes bug-out when you tell them what you did for your daily workout ...
- Your coworkers & friends eyes bug-out when you tell them you had pizza & beer for dinner ...
- You pay visits to the bathroom at 8 times during your work day ...
- You've become strangely obsessed with your water consumption & grab your nalgene with a crazed look when someone offers to fill it since they are getting a glass themselves ...
- You then say - "Yeah, you can fill mine" and consume all the remaining oz's in it whether that consist of 8 or 26 ...
- Your friends are strangely used to this behavior and no longer consider it odd ...
- You don't just "look" at people you analyze their muscle composition or lack there of ...
- You feel most comfortable in yoga pants or any of your gym clothes ...
- You have to force yourself to not wear a tank top to show off your body ...
- You're ok with your small boobs because your muscles are way hotter ...
- You get turned on that your husband is developing boobs (pecs) too ...
- You find it hard to not flex at least once a day ...
- You want an injury to heal like yesterday so you can get back to your routine with no lost time on useless injuries. What's a little pain?
- You go to a physical therapist to have him fix you & decide his sorry ass isn't doing good enough or giving fast enough results so you just live with the pain. Again, what's a little pain?
- You've become obsessed with "feeling the burn" and must share with others the great exercises you do to "really feel the burn" - this is classic "Mr.Pttobegirl"
- You women out there get odd looks from the men at the gym who are utterly perplexed as to how & why you look as if you actually know what you're doing ...
- You women out there are giving tips to those men!
- You women out there have become a presence at the gym & the men now ask you questions ...
- You can't not talk to a newcomer if they are doing tricep pushdowns (or a similar exercise) with bad form ...
- You wonder if chair-dancing to old "Rage Against the Machine" tunes burns a good amount calories ...
- You use your Omron more than your scale ...
- You've thrown your scale out the window at least once in your lifetime ...
- You've been known to say "Scales can not be trusted" & mean it ...
- You get a buzz off 1 beer because you only drink like once a week if that ...
- You make a list called "You know you've become a fitness whore when ..."
- You contemplate whether you can wear that Under Armour shirt with your dress pants to the office or not ...
- You turn your husband into a male fitness whore ...
- You've seen all the episodes of "Fit TV's Housecalls" & get pissed off that they don't air new ones ...
- Your ears perk up when someone starts talking about working out & get pissed when they give bad advice. Do you intervene??
- You've compared the gym to your home ...
- People have said to you "Do you ever use the machines or do you like hate them or something?"
- You reply "I use them as a last resort."
- You women like your sportsbras more than your wonderbras even if they do make you look flat as a board!
- You're reading this & nodding your head in complete agreement ...
- You make a list like this & have to force yourself to stop because you could really spend all night adding to it ...
posted by Openfields @ 7:35 PM
