Today, I did a sprint in gym class. Despite being the skinniest in the class, I ran slower than everyone else, including two morbidly obese people. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I ran the mile in gym class. I was the second to last person to finish, and I was left panting and feeling faint. When the teacher found out I hadn't come in dead last, he accused me of skipping a lap and is now making me rerun the entire thing. FML
Today, I was running the 100m sprint in a track meet. Me and another girl were tied for dead last. When we finished, she complained, "It's so embarrassing how slow I am today. I have shin splints. What happened to you?" I was actually running my hardest. FML
Today, my entire gym class had to run the 1600 with our coach calling out finishing times. My finishing time was reported as "3 days short of a year." FML
Today, I was trying to exercise more, so I went for a walk. I was quickly overtaken by a middle-aged lady with cankles, carrying heavy shopping bags in each hand. I'm 19, skinny, and apparently very unfit. FML
Today, I picked the treadmill next to an old man so I could feel better about myself. He ran faster and longer than I did. FML
Today, a day after after I took a diet pill, I participated in a sprint test. I shat in my pants. I finished the test but got a bad grade. FML
Today, after the longest time, I went to the gym. I ran and ran and ran on the treadmill for an eternity, beating myself up for getting so overweight. Then I tripped and fell off, sweating and sobbing for being so useless. When I looked up, I saw I'd been on the machine for barely 2 minutes. FML
Today, I ran a mile for my gym class. While I managed to cut two minutes off my time, a few minutes later I felt dizzy and nauseous, which I thought was because I pushed myself too hard. I collapsed and vomited in front of everyone. Not a single person moved to help me. Not even the teacher. FML
Today, I was at the gym running with intensity on the treadmill. As I was working out, I noticed a few guys behind me staring at me. I figured they were checking me out because I was losing some weight and looking better. Turns out they were betting on how much longer "Fat Ass" could last. FML
Today, I told my gym trainer I’d do anything to get in shape. He challenged me to run a mile without stopping. I agreed, then got winded halfway through and dramatically collapsed on the track. A 70 year-oldish woman jogged past me and said, “You’ll live.” FML
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tarabella 7
Being skinny doesn't mean that you're a picture of health and automatically fit as hell. And being fat doesn't equal being totally unhealthy and unfit.
ojosRojos 28
Speaking as a fellow thin person, that has nothing to do with how fit you are. If you wanna run faster, you still have to train your body to do so. I’ve never been particularly athletic, but I’m fine with that. Don’t knock on other people because they’re bigger than you - they’re obviously putting in more work than you.
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nentenkupo 19
To be fair, the obese people have more mass so that means they have more momentum.
Johnny5 16
But they have to overcome more inertia at a standstill first. Balanced, as all things should be.
tarabella 7
Being skinny doesn't mean that you're a picture of health and automatically fit as hell. And being fat doesn't equal being totally unhealthy and unfit.
MATTY2512 15
Thicker than average, no it doesn’t mean they’re unfit or unhealthy. Blatantly fat, yeah it does.
ChibiChibi_fml 28
Wrong, there are many "morbidly obese" people who are otherwise the picture of health. If the absolute only thing wrong with you is that you have more body fat than someone else, that doesn't make you unhealthy. The things that make being overweight unhealthy, in the sense that people think of unhealthy as being, are the things that tend to tie into it such as High Cholesterol, high glucose, etc. It is, however, possible to be obese but have perfect cholesterol levels and such. Being thin doesn't automatically mean healthy, and being fat doesn't automatically mean unhealthy.
Zahkrii 21
Take sumo wrestlers for example :P
ojosRojos 28
Speaking as a fellow thin person, that has nothing to do with how fit you are. If you wanna run faster, you still have to train your body to do so. I’ve never been particularly athletic, but I’m fine with that. Don’t knock on other people because they’re bigger than you - they’re obviously putting in more work than you.
RichardPencil 32
I'm guessing the fatties celebrated their non-last-place finish with a pizza and rejoiced that they beat the skinny, slow kid.
lexos 16
Just cause you're skinny doesn't mean that you're fit.
indiependence 8
I call that “skinny fat” because a person can look thin but they don’t have muscle tone it’s just fat; as opposed to a “fat” person who has muscle tone & a lot of fat
PenguinPal3017 19
I call people who are very overweight "obese".
blondie45 21
Running slower than everyone else is still better than lying on the couch. Well done!
Johnny5 16
Except it doesn’t sound like it was a choice since it was gym class. Sounds like this is a student and it was mandatory.
nintimdo2600 1
me
Kurliez408 32
YDI for thinking skinny=fit/fat=unfit. Instead of sounding so petty, go ask one of the fast runners to work out together.
Johnny5 16
Skinny doesn’t equal fit. I’m guessing based on this statement you are naturally slender without working out which is fine but it doesn’t make you physically fit.