I've gotten some amusing comments @ the gym, but this took the cake

[Strongbow]

i guess SB isnt the chosen one afterall lololo

And Im sure she said it in a totally non sectual way too hahahahhah

This is bullshit Dave, I am The Chosen One, voices tell me everyday that I am. they speak to me, sometimes I don't understand what they are saying, I think they speak to me in Hebrew sometimes, I have been sent to strike the first blow for the armies of heaven. Wait and see my child, the world will always remember my name.

 

[shirlene29]

I had some random guy on the street stop me and tell me he liked my aura- now that was bizarre. Your lady doesn't sound that cracked.

this would really make me wanna know what auras look like...

I'd take it as a compliment Nef, for sure....most people just say I look like a bitch or that I command an audience which may be code for..look out the bitch is here..but then I'm not very in touch with god stuff.

I guess if I was I'd be pretty stoked about this exchange

 

[nefertiti]

I had some random guy on the street stop me and tell me he liked my aura- now that was bizarre. Your lady doesn't sound that cracked.

lol I don't think she's cracked. In conversation with her it was clear that something she saw as her calling was reaching out to younger folks who are troubled in some way. She'd unofficially fostered a lot of teenage troubled kids, etc. I think one reason she spoke to me also is she picked up on my problem. She mentioned eating disorder stuff vaguely, and I owned up to it right away. She then said, "I kind of thought you might have a problem with that which is why I brought that up." She apparently has amazing perceptive ability because I look like a normal, healthy, athletic girl. But she picked up on my negative relationship with mirrors.

I shouldn't have joked on her like she was wacky, I just really didn't know what to do with that comment. It was pretty much the coolest thing anyone has ever said to me but parts of my brain and heart have a hard time accepting that it might be real on any level. But one of the parting things she said to me as we finally walked out of the gym and I had basically unloaded my life story on her (I never do that, she had that effect on me) was "All the suffering and trials you've gone through are going to serve a purpose in your life down the line somehow. You will get well, and when you have peace in your life I believe you will turn around and help bring that peace to other people who are suffering somehow."

Seriously the most unexpected gym conversation of all time.

 

[ponyfitness]

Hate to say it, but I find that about 3 women in 4 at the gym who are in shape and athletic have either had an eating disorder or currently have one. I work with 5 female trainers and 4 have had an eating disorder at one point or another. Not a huge stretch, sadly enough.

 

[nefertiti]

Hate to say it, but I find that about 3 women in 4 at the gym who are in shape and athletic have either had an eating disorder or currently have one. I work with 5 female trainers and 4 have had an eating disorder at one point or another. Not a huge stretch, sadly enough.

Doesn't really surprise me. In my case the gym is part of the healing process. In some cases it's part of the disease.

 

[shirlene29]

I think being unable to accept it is a somewhat normal response especially given yopur previous problems with self acceptance...or at least it would be for me

if I'm complimented in any way I generally just wonder what the other person wants and view it as insincere

 

[jackangel]

if I'm complimented in any way I generally just wonder what the other person wants and view it as insincere

as well you should, turtle-fucker.

 

[shirlene29]

as well you should, turtle-fucker.

drse

 

[binö]

thanks to guys wanting to get in my pants, we all know I've got "great form," and I'm "kind of a badass," and that apparently at least on one occasion I looked like "something out of an everlast ad" (wtf?)

This one came from a female, the only instructor at my gym that I like taking spin classes from, who is probably in her mid forties. She's the sweetest thing ever and she does a really kick ass class that runs the full hour with no breaks. Sometimes I'll chit chat with her a little after class as I'm getting my stuff together, but this came from left field. (btw, she told me I have good form too!!!)

So yesterday at the end of the class I'm the last one to leave and she stops for a second and says, "I don't know what you believe. And you're probably going to think I'm crazy. But every time I see you in this class I see the most amazingly strong anointing on you, like God has some great calling for you. It gives me goosbumps! It's like the holy spirit is just radiating off of you."

Ummmm. Even coming from a place of where I am now, very devout, I didn't even know how to respond to that. So I deflected and we talked about god stuff and local churches for twenty minutes. Which then shifted somehow into talking about eating disorders (her history, my current, other girls she knows who are suffering) and faith driven recovery. Which then shifted into me giving her info to pass to them about my small group at my church (which has an ED focus) and an online daily study I'm doing regarding faith based recovery. Which then transitioned into her worrying about me shifting to exercise anorexia and I told her about various accountability partners I have to keep me from overdoing it in the gym. After about an hour of blah blah blah blah, we exchanged hugs before parting ways.

Most bizarre random gym conversation in the entire world. I don't know about all that anointing stuff (I think everyone is called to some sort of purpose, none greater than the other), but I feel like I went from being friendly strangers to getting semi-adopted by my spin class instructor.

I know some of y'all are gonna think the woman's a weirdo, but the truth is even if I'm balking at her ideas about the holy spirit radiating off of me (I lol at even typing that), she was so genuine and loving and sweet that I can't hold it against her. And it doesn't hurt right now to surround me with as many people as I can who are trying to look out for me. Kind of cool actually that I have someone actually AT my gym holding me responsible for staying healthy.

Flame away, fuckers.

k, real talk.
those dudes that are calling you badass are probably doing it in a condescending way, being sexist and making fun of a girl supposedly doing a man's recreation.
not necessairly cause they think you are hott.

 

[nefertiti]

k, real talk.
those dudes that are calling you badass are probably doing it in a condescending way, being sexist and making fun of a girl supposedly doing a man's recreation.
not necessairly cause they think you are hott.

lol, No. The comment about guys trying to get in my pants was a joke based on what everyone here has said about those various remarks I've gotten. I get really fucking annoyed when someone dismisses any positive compliment as an attempt to get in my pants, because I feel like it devalues anything I may have done to deserve it. But it was a joke.

That said, I can 100% promise you it wasn't any kind of making fun of me bullshit, because that particular person continued to try and hit on me for months afterward (it was a couple of years ago). What straight guy would do that to a cute girl who is training hard anyway? That would be pretty geigh. Unless he was trying to neg her, which would still mean the guy was trying to hit on her lol.