When I was living in the States 24 Hour Fitness was the best place to go. At 3am I would be able to use any machine I wanted for as long as I wanted. It gets a little more hectic during 6-8am and ofc 11-1 and 4-7 but if you go during odd hours you can have a really good workout without worrying about the machine time limits. They usually have so many machines from elliptical machines to spinning bikes. Weight loss and exercise are really easy when you have the choices and time to make them.

The best part about 24 hour Fitness is the TV/radio station box at each machine. You plug your headphones in and you can watch the TVs on the wall, whichever channel you want. It makes exercising so easy and you hardly notice you’re working out.

24 Hour Fitness is one of my few exceptions to the “free” rule, but I will give tips on cheaper gyms. You can exercise for free, and those will be towards my best recommendations, which of course will be towards the end of the month =D!

I just don’t understand why people keep believing this bull****, but I’m gonna stop you if I can.

I’m gonna be honest here. Weight gain didn’t happen overnight for me. I sat my butt down in a chair and for years and I basically didn’t move out of it. I stuffed my face with crap and now my butt looks like two pigs curled up beside each other.

I also won’t lie and tell you that I didn’t enjoy those years of homemade pizzas, powdered doughnuts, Taco Bell and Chili Cheese Fritos. Its easy to enjoy those when you don’t look in the mirror.

Everyone wants a magic bullet, especially me. There isn’t a soul on earth that I wouldn’t sacrifice to have the genetics of some 18 year old skinny blond Swedish model. I know that’s not gonna happen.. so I’m gonna take my warped genetics and lose weight the way my warped genetics allows. It sucks but that’s life.

Its not just me that agrees there’s no magic pill for weight loss:
Fast Track to Weight Loss
By EatingWell on Apr 15, 2009 12:00 PM in Healthy Eating
By Rachel Johnson, PH.D., M.P.H., R.D., EatingWell.com

As I expected, none of the quick fixes had strong scientific backing. So I turned to my friend Jean Harvey-Berino, Ph.D., chair of the University of Vermont’s Nutrition & Food Sciences Department and author of The EatingWell Diet (The Countryman Press, 2007). “The best way to give yourself a jump-start,” she said, “is to create rules that add structure to your diet.”

You can read more on this article by clicking here

So while magic pills, dvds, powders, trainers, shoes and assortment of diet wonders sound really great, I didn’t make my ass into a condo unit by magic, so I’m not going to demolish it by magic either. And neither are you.

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That’s it I’m done! Done listening to the multitude of skinny women who gained 15 pounds once, lost it 12 seconds later because they ran a flight of stairs and announced they have a diet plan for me! Done with berry trees, powdered shakes, frozen dinners (which cost more than gym memberships). Done with low carbs, high carbs, no carbs, high protein, low protein, no protein, low-fat, low sugar, low calorie , no taste, crappy, expensive, ridiculous diets.

But most of all I’m done listening to advice from skinny women that have no clue what I’m going through!

So to the following women, who meet my definition of skinny:

1. Any woman who started out thin, stayed thin, lives thin and breathes thin. Listen you have no idea what its like to be fat. You don’t understand struggles that fat women deal with. You do not ride on my emotional roller coaster and you can probably buckle that belt anyway. So shut it!

2. Any woman who eats a carrot, forcefully vomits it up, says she ate too much this week and proceeds to starve for 3 days. You know who you are girls, and I while I admire your dedication to be stupid.. I mean thin,.. I’d rather my heart attack came by doughnut, not ketosis! Please shut up.

3. Any woman who has never been more than 20 pounds overweight in her life. You are either genetically gifted, belong in categories 1 or 2, or a combination of 1 and 2. Shut up!

4. Any woman who has never had trouble buckling a belt on a plane, roller coaster. Shut your mouth!

You have no clue what you’re talking about. You may have a degree from 6 universities and maybe even some people have lost weight on your programs.. and maybe even kept it off, its possible, unlikely, but possible, but you still have zero idea about what you’re spewing.

So before you open your carrot-eating, 110 pound, size 4 mouth I want to tell you to SHUT UP.

My twinkie-eating, 200 pound, size 24 ass will take advice from someone that’s been there and done that.