It’s great that you’ve had that experience, but I just wanted to note that it’s not always the case. Most personal trainers are not nutritionists, and while they tend to be be pretty good about disclosing that, they’re also not always reliable for good diet advice. In my experience that usually manifests in diet…

You’re conflating a couple of things - there’s the “how do I know I’m making progress” thing, and the “what do I look for that’s going to motivate me?” I’ll throw a few things at you and hope something sounds good to you. :)

What kind of unimaginative assfuck came up with that name? Next they’ll come out with a Tetris clone named FALLY BLOCKS.

Okay. That was hilarious.

Bah ha! Hee. No, thanks for pointing it out.

ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!

Sadly, we don’t live in a perfect world. I’m willing to compromise on the details.

“It’s that thing where you slather yourself in barbecue sauce, wrap yourself in tinfoil, and ask someone to take you home and eat you for lunch the next day.”

I proceed to exit the cooking area and whacked him with the hot cookie sheet, chocolate chip and white chocolate macadamia flying everywhere.

Going over the comments here - am I the only person who is genuinely looking forward to this?

You should laugh. If, however, you are a fan of Denver, New England, New York, or Philadelphia, you may instead elect to cry, start laughing but end crying, or alternate between hysterical laughter and tears at your own discretion.

“Uh... it’s yoghurt, mom! That’s what’s in my sock! I was... eating yoghurt, and it just sorta fell in there.”

Your mother is my hero.

You’re still awesome. May we both reach our next workouts in one piece.

My problem is that neither woman is a realistic outcome for most women. My problem is sexualizing health and fitness when we aim it towards women. I posted downthread a woman who’s not a model, because i don’t think models are fucking helpful examples for people to follow when looking to get healthy.

If the problem is that the photo is essentially a glamour shoot, fine. But if you don’t think that fitness models are lifting weights beyond pink dumbells, I suggest you read some interviews with actual fitness models. You can turn up your nose at them if you want, but they work damn hard at it.

Right - she’s a fitness model who lifts weights. I don’t think that’s the ironclad refutation you think it is.

We actually do have a kid’s chef knife for her, which she uses sometimes. But the serrated nylon edge has a tendency to tear stuff up a lot, and she’s not incredibly fond of using it. Since then we’ve started introducing smaller grown-up knives, and I’ve had a couple of “knife safety” sessions with her where we talk…

Not as often as we should, but yes. We usually try to recruit our daughter whenever we’re making something that involves mixing or easy whisking, so breakfast foods (pancakes, eggs) are always easy. Salads are easy - we mostly use grape tomatoes and baby carrots, so there isn’t a lot of cutting involved. She also…

Erm. I sorta feel like this is applicable.