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[quote=Anonymous]Interesting approach taken to help people get the support they need. (I do wonder what the threshold is, if say a person does lose a significant amount of weight, are they then asked to leave?)

[url]http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/blogs/healthy-living/gym-bans-skinny-people-173000110.html[/url]

And article is here (I find the line in bold amusing):

[b]Gym Bans Skinny People[/b]
By Vitamin G, Glamour Magazine | Healthy Living – Mon, 18 Jun, 2012 1:30 PM EDT
Sarah Jio, Glamour magazine

You've heard of discrimination against overweight people, but what about discrimination against thin gals? A gym in Canada bans "skinny" women from their gym...

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Slim and svelte? Then you may be banned from Canada's new gym Body Exchange, which business model focuses primarily on obese people. In fact, they say that thin people "bring down morale."

Founder and CEO Louise Green told TheProvince.com that the gym is a "safe haven" for overweight people who may be intimidated to work out in the presence of those who are fit.

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"Many of our clients have not had successful fitness pasts so I can see the anxiety before we get started and I can see the relief and happiness after we finish," she said. "People are often too fearful to become active. There wasn't a model that offered camaraderie. I used to walk into fitness classes where nobody would even say 'Hi.' This has got to be fun or it's not going to work."

And, Body Exchange client Lisa Schaffer said [b]she loves that there aren't "tiny little Lululemon people running around"[/b] the gym.
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