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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm like you, though I'm not a healthy eater at all. I find that I don't want community for exercise at all. I'll go for a run or walk with one friend or once in a while take a class to learn something new like paddleboarding, but I don't enjoy gym culture or people who talk about things like numbers of steps or grams of fat or interval training. I just want to go outdoors when I can and get moving and listen to some music and move at my own pace, and I don't want to think much about food at all. Maybe this is because I wasn't healthy about any of it when I was an insecure teen and twenty something. But I don't judge people who like all that stuff, it just takes something enjoyable and makes it stressful for me. I refuse for example to go running with people who use an app and check their mile times and try to beat their last mile. Totally stresses me out. [/quote]

Same to all of this! I have not enjoyed the era of the step-count, or FitBits, or whatever people are using to track themselves. My mom was a Weight Watchers obsessive when I was a kid. I'm not criticizing either, I get why people use these methods to motivate themselves. But I don't like feeling competitive, even with myself.

I do think part of the issue is that DC has an excess of competitive, Type A folks, especially in the UMC circles that tend to post here. I'm from Colorado and while people there eat well and are very fit, I don't remember it ever being quite as obsessive as people are here. Just a different culture, I guess.[/quote]

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