Too Fat To Workout

Poor machine.

I recently saw Ricky Gervais (aka, the funniest man alive) at MSG and he brought up a good point. Why can’t we use the word “fat” anymore? Why are we so afraid? I mean fat people literally have globs of what is scientifically called, “fat” all over their body. What gives? And now, we have more awkwardness because a fat person is upset.

A metro woman said a gym she joined told her to stop using certain equipment because she was too overweight. Five months ago Sandra Ruiz gave birth to her son but with that came some extra weight she wanted to get rid of. Ruiz said she weighs about 385 pounds.

Whoa whoa whoa. 385lbs = Original weight + weight gained from child breaing. “Some extra weight”? Either you gave birth to an adult sized Koala bear or you were pushing 320 before you were pregnant. I’m not tyring to be mean here, I’m just trying to call a spade a spade. If your mouth lies in the geometric center of the front of your face, then you can’t attribute the extra weight to your child birth.

The owner of Mademoiselle Fitness Center said Ruiz had been informed from the start that there were certain pieces of equipment she couldn’t use for her own safety, and also because of the equipment’s weight limit.

Just because a fat person has the right to workout in freedom (like any one of us) doesn’t mean that the machine she wants to use, structurally feels the same way. I want to jump around in the playground at McDonald’s too, but rules are rules. I might just have to play somewhere else. Yeah, yeah, yeah, poor girl this, and poor girl that. I get it. But this poor girl brought this story to the news to have more people talk about it.

The owner said they also made up a workout program specifically for her including water aerobics, but she was “like a kid in a candy store,” saw all the equipment and wanted to try it all right then.

Had to use the “kid in the candy store” analogy, didn’t you?