So...she wanted the relationship to be more Loki.

Oh?

You, me and Costanza...

so funny that like 100 years ago a suntan meant you worked outside all day cause you was poor. rich people wore umbrellas and protected their lily white skin. how times change (and stay the same then change and stay the same like some Groundhog Day cycle)

Exactly this. By that logic, I should definitely be able to shed an unwanted health issue along with a few pounds. It’s really all about focus and dedication to your goal of improved health.

I didn’t say anything about not working out. But there’s a set of bodies that are achievable for me, and a set that are not. I’ve made a conscious decision not to bother pining after bodies that I’ll never achieve, and it makes my life a lot easier.

Eh, I wear comfy clothes when I go to after school pick up because I am a working from home engineer (and have you seen what run of the mill male engineers wear to work anyway?) and sometimes it is because I have changed into workout clothes hoping to find time to get out for a run.

I’m a single mom. I wake up at 5 am every day to cook dinner, make lunches and breakfast and do chores. I get home from picking up my kid at afterschool care around 6:30. I feed my child, put him to bed, then do emails and house work. laundry etc. There is no extra hour for me to watch TV or sleep or work out. Your…

I will come to your hood and defy their athleisure with my athleisure, which is a pair of oversized capri pants from the thrift store and an unmatching baggy brown t-shirt with a fading strawberry decal over a sports bra that is holding enough moisture to save a small country from drought and a podgy gut. With black…

thanks. it’s so hard to not feel bad after being inundated with images of how i should look. but i realize that there are better things than being super hot. like pizza.

See also my “jeans” which are leggings with pockets. Screw you, article! I’ll wear athleisure if I want, and I can guarantee it is not an air of wealth or celebrity that I am trying to exude... It’s a “I didn’t feel like wearing my normal clothes and I have pilates this evening, so why the fuck would I dirty something…

That’s why all my running shorts are black. I may not be color coordinated while running, but at least I’m not clashing? Everything goes with black.

“Aspirational fitness” is the issue she’s talking about. Working out isn’t glorified in this context, it’s working out for multiple hours or attending certain expensive classes or training with certain expensive trainers. It’s about this new show of wealth and luxery, that masks itself as something healthy. It’s the…

Or for people who don’t have kids. I biked 100 miles this month because I have all the time! I’ll wear leggings wherever I please.

Meh. As someone with a soft tummy prone to IBS bloating that can make me look (and feel) seven months pregnant in the span of 20 minutes if I eat the wrong thing, leggings are a fucking godsend.

The thing (for me) that’s so seductive about this whole cult isn’t necessarily the idea of having three hours a day to work out (though obviously that’s amazing) but rather the fact that working out for them is so, sort of, passive? Like they have assistants and a trainer and a cash flow that just ....make it happen…