the gym paradox during my 45 min sweatfest on the treadmill I counted 49 people entering the gym. 9 men and 40 women. out of the 9 men 3 were fit and muscular, 3 normal and 3 overweight. now out of 40 women 35 of them were fit, slim eyecandy and 5 were just thin. remember this is the time when women normally start to go to the gym to get a "bikini body" (here we start to visit the beaches in May). it seems that only men feel ashamed about their pot bellies while all this "fat acceptance" "big is beautiful" shit has given overweight women the excuse to stay home and eat.  note that the gym offers high tech passive exercise equipment (from the US ofcourse) designed to help fat people lose weight without pain but still noone cares...