It’s real sometimes but the majority of people at the gym want to see progress. My fit shaming was mostly due to my mom and sister. I would run about 2-3 miles on the treadmill before doing any other workout & id come down the stairs and my mom would be hanging out with all of her “gym buddies “ and everytime she would say “ you aren’t sweaty enough go back up stairs and do it again “ . I wasn’t as fit as my sister as well , she just got the skinnier side of the genes from my mom and I got the bigger broader bones from my dad ( Scottish dad , Vietnamese mom ) so I was as fit as my sister just not as skinny like a chopstick. So I would keep doing cardio to hopefully get as small as my sister but the lightest I could get was 120-125 pounds and she was still a whopping 95-110 pounds. People who I thought were my friends would always compare me to my sister and ask “ why aren’t you as small as her? You know you’d be hot af if you were.” I just couldn’t get down to that size it wasn’t possible for me. So it is real , but at the end of the day you have to learn the valuable lesson that you are your own worst enemy. Don’t let what those people say bring you down because working out isn’t a competition between you and other people it’s a competition for yourself.
Amazing answer!
I think it's more of fat shaming than fit shaming even though I can bet you are anything but fat.
I’ve had people tell me “you don’t need to work out with a body like that.” Ummm how do you think I got this body? Because I WORK OUT and take care of myself. I go to the gym every other day.. and when I was with my (ex) boyfriend.. him and I would go to the gym together.
Plus the more fit you are, the better the sex is 😂😂💪 My ex and I both had amazing sex constantly, thanks to going to the gym... which I still miss not gonna lie.. 😩 The sex was freaking bomb and so was he ughhh I’m tripping-
ANYWAYS- yes I have been fit shamed.. I’ve been told I don’t have to work out, I’m “sexy enough” I don’t need the gym.. NO HUNTY. I go to the gym to keep my figure, keep my sanity and I go because it enhances the hell out of my sex life so y’all can take yo negativity with you like bye Feliciaaaaa. 😂😂
Yeah it happens. The most common shaming is when people say a woman looks too masculine with muscles. This puts women off doing weight training, which leads to them missing out on the numerous benefits of lifting.
The only way a woman could look too muscular is if she is abusing anabolic steroids.
Really, people who criticise others into fitness are just jealous because they are too lazy to hit the gym their selves.
Thankfully, all my friends and family have been very supportive of my fitness goals.
It is real especially for women, brcause some people say they look. like men and women are discouraged to do. weight training because people imagine putying muscle happens overnight and thry would look like men. Of course it is really stupid and. shows how ignorant they are. Plus, mostly average looking men and women say this. Fit guys don't usually have a problem. with fit girls (to an extent , eveyone has a different preference)
Very true. I find fit girls hot!
I think it's more about people's misconception on bodybuilding women than actual shaming.
I was fat... got fit... yes it is a thing. It's the first fucking thing people bring up. I don't even know how to get steroids but you know how many times I get accused of taking them? ALL THE TIME.
Basically you start running into 24/7 jealousy. You just want to be cool and chill, still drink too much, but no... you're buff and they're weak type shit keeps popping up. Well, I was fatter that where you are now, sacrifice that hour a day like I do, and reap the same benefits. It takes a couple of years or less... but quit bitching and moaning without doing nothing about it.
Sorry I just ranted. Yeah, fit shaming is real. It's just as real as me getting called eminem every time I bust a rap.
It's definitely real. Do you know what's funny? Absolutely no one likes change; people hate it. People will fight you tooth and nail to stop you from changing, but once the transformation is complete, everyone loves you and talks about how they were always on your side.
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Never encounter anything like this. If anything, fit people inspire me to be fit myself. Fit shamers probably just feeling bitter inside.
Fit shaming doesn't exist.
In all seriousness, stop this drama. Literally everyone has to complain these days.
Anyway, I do believe there are people that have misconceptions which is why some people might make negative comments on women who do weightlifting. There could also be people who don't take your diet seriously and want you to eat a pastry with them, but honestly if you are at a social gathering people will insist you to eat anyway no matter what reason. I don't think it specifically has to do with fitness.
Some other people might just be jealous.
But fit-shaming? Noooooo.
In my case it might be just jealousy but there are cases where people who go to the gym and workout are often seen as dumb, shallow. The issue seems more with women as far as I've read about.
I never saw people like that. There are some gym maniac people though, but excess of anything is never good actually. I live in a conserva society, and most of the comments I get for doing gym and lifting weights is mainly due to people not understanding it instead of shaming or anything. People think of those steroid ladies and freak out.
I see.
Most of what I get is that I'm just wasting my time, it's not gonna work and stuff like that.
What seems to piss off a lot of people is that I decided not to drink at all to maintain health. That somehow increased their hate towards my routine.
The worst is when people tease me for practicing martial arts, saying that it's all fake, shouting 'hiya' and stuff when I'm training.
Again, it's due to their lack of knowledge. I used to learn martial art as well until I became a high school kid too busy with studies :'') I never drank alcohol anyway, I'm religious enough to never do that, but I stopped drinking soft drinks like Pepsi for about three years. My mom still pours me a glass when we have soft drinks at home... If my mom does that to me even after three years, what makes you think that people who are NOT your mom will accept it? 😂 Just chill dude, let people get used to it. At least no one can force feed you 🤷
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What you experienced is not fit shaming, but people being jealoua and trying to drag you down. It's a natural human thing to inhibit people in trying to be better than us - we do it becauaw we feel insecure about ourselves. In my case the solution to this was to willingly stop myself from dragging others down, and to try and inspire those that drag me down instead of letting them ruin my confidence.
Fit shaming is just being a dick with others for being in better shape than you. Not discouraging them.
That's fucking stupid & makes no sense at all. How can you shame someone for being healthy? The only thing I can think of is that those individuals are unhappy with themselves & mad to see people doing what they're to weak & lazy to do for themselves.
WTF? Post this shit as a general question, bc this has nothing to do with my response.
Correct. They get jealous when they see you become successful so they try to pull you down
As long as you do not feel shame, then they are failing in this supposed shaming attempt. As a result, in reflection, they are ONLY succeeding in shaming themselves.
None of that stuff is real. It's all about redistributing social power which is unnatural. It's exactly what the old school communists were trying to do when they set out to redistribute financial power. It doesn't take into account how the power got distributed the way it is in the first place. It only assumes it was by some unfair means. It' s easy for jealous people with inferiority complexes to think that way and that's most of who communists are. Think about it. The first murderer in mythology killed his brother out of jealousy. Communism has been the most murderous ideology in human history.
Yeah it's true, I do also have people from school who try to get me to eat at McDonald's and shit or I get negative comments about my body and people being like "you know you don't have to workout" and other stuff but my friends thankfully are totally supporting
I get that too. It's funny, order a big greasy burger with a giant beer and no one bats an eyelash but order a simple salad with boiled chicken and everybody looses.
True, and if I do have any junk food once in a while they make it seem as if I have performed a sin
I would classify it more as jealousy rather than fit shaming cause people don't look at fit people and say "ew, that person looks so disgustingly health."
Instead what happens - is they will look at a woman that is very fit and say she is too skinny or too fat or too masculine by having muscles on her body
But it is all built on jealousy and not facts
Good lord. The things people will turn into issues or problems... There are people dying from thirst or disease everyday.. and anyone who is retarded enough to 'fit' shame you, you shouldn't pay them any mind anyway.. Why can't G@G highlight the questions for people who need actual help for a change?
I'm very disappointed of the highlights too, it needs to be fixed asap
@davidnoxier lol, lets shame them
Lol 🔥🔥🔥🔥
They want to know how you got their its jealousy most times sadly :/ it does happen for example, I've always been pretty skinny but not to the point of anorexic and people /some friends would always make it a point to say that I was much "skinnier" then them like if it were a bad thing? I never worried since I'm well aware of my weight being on the healthy side but hearing it enough times it can get to you ):
Slightly, but it's so obviously jealousy that I could never be bothered by it. As soon as they notice that, they stop. Also fit people get way more compliments than shamers, so being fit is completely worth it.
The things you named as examples wouldn't count as fit shaming in my opinion, more like diet shaming... Or honesty... Depending on the situation.
Nooo, God they're such jealous pricks. Why do you give a rat's ass? they know you look better than they do. I want to be fit, but my ass has been disagreeing with me lately. i love your username by the way. but Naruto Uzumaki is way better.
Ya I love Naruto and sasukes both. My own personality seems to tend to sasuke bit
. Its a envy thing. People are jealous of your body, self control etc. And with the diets people don't understand them and its more of a 'its not going to kill you to have a cheat day' or whatever. You just keep doing your thing and leave them to self hate.
I've never experience fit shaming, but some people don't understand when I have a goal, they shouldn't try and steer me off of it just for a few minutes of enjoying a certain food.
I've also had guys say they don't want a gym rat as a girlfriend.
Most people are jealous in some way.
Jealous that you have dedication and motivation.
Jealous of your body.
Jealous of other looking at your body.
It's not shaming. Their envious and jealous because they want to be like you. Or they want to put you down because you will attract good things and people to you because you work hard to achieve what you got. No matter of it was easy or hard. You still made the effort. Something most of them refuse to do.
Movies get constantly shamed for showing fit actors, especially when they are female, because they supposedly display unrealistic bodystandards.
These SJWs are so bothered by their own appearance (or lack of), that they cannot tolerate the fact, that there are better looking people out there. They have to pull everyone down to their level, instead of proping themselves up.
Such weaklings.
Again, I think part of the complaining about unrealistic body standards is coming from being jealous of others.
Its jealousy. When I was 15 I was obese. After 3 months when I returned from my summer holiday to school I was fit and very muscular. In another 3 months I got 6 pack abs and jawline. From ugly fat guy I turned into model. It was so obvious that a lot of the guys were jealous. There was always that guy from my school that I met on the way to it. He was asking me do I still workout every single day. And he was telling me if he trained as much as me he would be way bigger. And of course he looked like shit.
I have that with my friends sometimes too but the compliments for my body and questions about my work out routine I get make up for the occasional negativity 😂
I have a few friends who support me and some also joined for workouts. It's just one group who is somehow against fitness and healthy eating cause it isn't "cool".
That’s ridiculous ahahah I have not a single friend who is that stupid, but they all do try to convince me have fatty food sometimes, I actually get sick from greasy and or processed foods at this point so that’s a good excuse though
It does sound ridiculous but people like that do exist. I have one friend in particular who doesn't like exercise
Is he by any chance really fat or ectomorph though?
Yes he's fat but he's the kind of person who's proud that he fat, believe it or not!
I only shame fit people when they constantly flaunt their bodies online. I am a Mixed Martial Artist with a muscular body but I do not see the need to flex my muscles on instagram every bloody day like some of these influencers do.
Well yeah that's a but annoying but I would just ignore it.
I have heard of people talking down on others for working out to much and centering their life around gym.
Being too obsessed with workout that you do nothing else is also bad. You need to do other things too other than train, unless you're a saiyan
There are only 2 scenarios where I actually see REAL "fit shaming":
scenario A) Actually putting in effort at Planet Fitness
scenario B) People dogging out a toned and/or muscular woman by saying that she looks like a man even though deep down inside they wish they had a body like her but too lazy to work for it.
Happens a lot. I was bodybuilding for years and insecure people would always try and find something wrong with my physique when they had dad bods themselves. Nasty comments on my instagram etc. At the end of the day you know that you look better than all these haters, so it doesn’t bother too much.
Lol. Some scientists even said that eating healthy food ( just avoiding junk food, like pizza and burgers) is an obsession that can be bad for you! Lmao. I won’t be surprised if some stupid studies will claim that raising kids to be polite and disciplined will be bad for their brain and développement!
I can't say I ever seen it. The only thing like that I have seen is with some meat head dudes. Shame them because it is clear that they are on steroids. That being said these type of people are also usually pretty cocky and self centered so it's shaming them for their narcissism.
Yes, I guess some people are able to find something to shame others about?
As long as you're healthy, don't let them fit shame you.
Ya, thanks
I got teased about my meals all the time at university. I bring home cooked rice and meat and I don't shove it in peoples faces or anything but people always find a way to bring it up in conversation. I've just started not even responding to them when they do that. They'll just stare at me for 10 seconds waiting for me to respond to some criticism about my food and I just start eating not saying anything to them.
I had people say "oh well I can't do that because of..." Or say they rather spend day in bed... I think any negative attitude towards you would be out of jealousy, they want to be fit and healthy but lack that motivation
I mean I guess ya. I didn't know there was a word for it but I guess anything you do to make someone feel ashamed for something about themselves would be a kind of shaming. That seems really stupid to me though. They just aren't jealous probably.
When somebody asks me what I’m doing, I dislike saying that I’m working out when I am for a majority of reasons. I mostly feel like they are judging me for it...
there's a different kind of shaming going around for just about everything. I've noticed that when I win money at the casino, my friends change too. And they don't seem to relax until I've lost the money again. People who live in gyms constantly shame others who choose a different lifestyle than them, and yes, there are people who shame the ones who spend all their time at the gym.
You can make fun of anyone for anything. You ask to many stupid questions. See now I'm question shaming you.
There's difference here. You only stated an opinion. Shaming is when you particularly try to break down their morale and make them feel bad.
So if I said your questions are so stupid Isaac Newton is rolling over in his grave you degenerate. Then I would be question shaming you?
Maybe a little bit.
"So an insecure fatty walks into a gym and.."
Laugh in their faces and walk away, only one that should be criticism fit people is someone in a relationship with them that doesn't like the fact they have overly-chiseled features or something like a grossly detailed 6 pack.
I never said anything about fat shaming. Every type of body shaming is bad. It's just that fit shaming doesn't really get much attention.
And if you don't like a chiseled body person, why would you date them in the first place.
Yeah, don't know why you took the quotes personally but it was to talk shit on whatever the actual hell is supposed to be a fit shamer. Don't really understand why I have to explain that.. I'm not going to comment on your last bit because I think that's just you over-analyzing due to being confused with my message in general, because there's nothing to even retort with such a random dissection.
Please be a bit more clear. I couldn't understand your first opinion nor did I get that reply
You have a non-existent reading comprehension.
No I don't. It's just that you have a complete disregard to grammar mainly subject verb agreement and also lack of punctuation.
It's funny, I always try to speak to Indian people about things I'd like to happily indulge on them with but then there's these inept fucking anime retards that bounce the conversation around so much we become enemies for no reason.
Shut the fuck up, my grammar was spotty in the second post because I was taken back by you. Doesn't matter if I have a run-on sentence or not, reading-comprehension is the act of processing text. I learned I don't get along with socially awkward angsty Indians since elementary school. Quit grasping at straws you street-shitter, not my fault you only know English so much that you cannot handle native speakers doing what all native speakers do.
I'm pretty sure my English is good enough. Attacking for my nationality makes no sense. Secondly where did anime come into the discussion?
Thirdly, I was respectful at first and simply asked to you explain your previous statement, you're the one who got triggered by that for some reason.
Probably because I stuck a gun in my mouth today.
Wow, you okay bro?
Yes to some degree people are jealous and if your working hard on improving your self it sheds light on them showing they are not doing the same. Therefore they are slightly jealous, beware.
That sort of thing usually comes from the ones who are out of shape and are insecure, they feel the need to try to insult the fit ones out of their bitterness.
Yes it is very real
Can't see the pic clearly. What's in it
The message where they wanted to piss me off because they took off the question about suicide
Oh, I don't see what's wrong about that question. If nothing it was a place where people could actually talk about problems they we're facing.
Theoretically or realistically would you like that answer. In reality they are a bunch of men and women that have no real problem looking at questions about the size of men and their junk all day
Ya, people are fine talking stupid stuff as long it doesn't get serious or sad. Then they suddenly freak out and say we can't talk about that. People don't want to talk about reality these days.
Absolutely. I know a lot of fit, attractive and athletic women have less of a chance in interviews depending on how many women are on the interview pannel, how fat those women may be or how narcissistic they may be.
If you're being annoying about it it's a possibility. Although I also think it could just be a jealousy thing maybe.
To be honest when I got in shape a couple years back my family started to say they're worried about me. Which is guesss counts as fit shaming. Kinda miss those days.
My mom said I got too skinny after losing 100 lbs and gaining a bunch of muscle. She just mad cuz she thinks being fat is genetic.
As opposed to fat shaming, which stems from a sense of superiority, fit shaming is basically always a sign of being jealous.
I think it's time we as a society get thicker skin. Every criticism we get isn't "shaming"
Criticism is different from shaming
I think a lot of comes from people posting gym selfies every 5 minutes on sites like Instagram. We get it, you are losing weight, gaining muscle and staying fit and that is great but we don't need a daily update.
No, because unlike fatassess, fit people know they have nothing to be ashamed off.
Ya but unfortunately that doesn't stop stupid people from talking trash. It's sad cause fit shaming is basically insulting a person for being hard-working, sincere and consistent.
Exactly. But some fit people eventually are forced to give up to fit in. One my classmates had to do that cause his fitness habits made it difficult for him to be social and he had to quit.
It's called jealousy
And that's good, shows you who are your fake friends so you can weed them off your life
They really need to stop with this "*add anything you can think of* shaming". It's ridiculous.
Not generally, unless we are talking cross fit or those guys who go to the gym for like 5 hours a day and are constantly talking about different muscle groups.
Of course. There's all sorts of shaming. Fat people will shame fit people because they're jealous they have the discipline and will to work out, unlike themselves.
Yes. I'm naturally thin and people tell me I need to eat constantly. Being called skinny hurts when there's so much stock put into having curves.
LOL no. How do you "shame" someone for being good? That's like saying "rich-shaming" or "tall-shaming" or "nice-person-shaming" exists. The fuck?
Yes plenty of times but I never let it get to me or allow it to act as an obstacle for my so called fitness target!!
I've seen it happen... but it's more jealousy than anything else.
Yes I think so. I feel bad to say if I have done something because it still doesn't seem cool to care so much about your health
Definitely. People made rumors about me in highschool that I took steroids, and people believed them. These days some people think I'm a meathead simply because I take care of my body.
for myself it was more along the lines of others being jealous.
From what you described that's not fit shaming. They just don't want you to succeed.
No i am a fit guy and no one has ever shamed me. Instead people praise me
Never seen or heard it happening, and if it would actually happen, I don't see how fit people should be ashamed. They are doing productive stuff.
Not nearly as real as shaming people who are a little thick.
It's more of jealousy then shaming.
No lol because most people agree it's good to be fit.
I know what they mean im saying fit bodies are deemed more attractive so no ones really shaming them whereas at least these days being fat is considered not good for a lack of better terms.
No, the things you list are not shaming, it's just jealous dogs barking, who gives a fuck. Being fit was always attractive and always will be
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