This is some sort of sick joke, right?

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Ponine

See, and I go after work. Sometimes not till 9pm. I reapply the makeup, and redo my hair, and whatever else I need to do in order to look presentable.

I do doll up to go to the gym.
I am a woman of size, and i know this. I cant wear the average gym clothes. they make me look really heavy, and though I know I am, I dont want to show it off.
So I make sure my gym clothes match, are washed, and are flattering. I dont want someone to stare at me and say, why are you in those grubbies?
I'd rather someone thought I was affluent, and spent time on my appearance and wanted to get thinner.

Matching clean clothes that are flattering to ones self and neat hair aren't getting dolled up, at least in my opnion.

The women in my gym look like they are going to a white-tie affair sans the gown. When I say dolled up I mean dolled up. Not just neat hair and flattering clean clothes. I'm talking Fresh up-dos, the works.

If you look like you're ready to go to a white-tie affair then ya, I find that funny. I don't find you funny, I don't think less of you for it, I just find the fact that you look like you're going to a white-tie affair instead of the gym funny (but somehow I don't think that is what you look like when you go to the gym). Just like I find it funny when people go to Disneyland in 4 inch heals. But whatever floats whoevers boat.

I'm really sorry that you feel like you have to get dressed up to "deserve" to hang out the gym with all the *beautiful people*. I do know how you feel, I did feel that way years ago but I didn't care enough about myself to spend time making my self look better so I felt like I deserved to hang out with the *beautiful people* and who knows, maybe that had something to do with my failure to lose weight back then.

Kudos to you for doing what you need to do to go to the gym and improve yourself for you (I hope you're improving yourself for you!). But if anyone looks like they are about to go have dinner at the White House instead of spending time at the gym I am going to have a fleeting moment of internal laughter.