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If you ever want to test just how much women are trained to police each others bodies, and just how screwed up America is about women, weight, and eating...
...find a random group of women who are not serious athletes, and casually mention that in order to maximize your muscle gain from a weightlifting program, you are eating more than you usually do.
Yes, you are trying to gain weight. Muscle weight. But weight nonetheless. Yes, "eating more" includes more carbs. No, you're not worried about putting on non-muscle weight. No, really. No, really. No, what you mean is not that it won't happen, but that if you put on a little fat along with the muscle, you don't care. No, really.
The reaction I got, you'd think I had announced that I was planning to go on some kind of unhealthy, near-starvation crash diet in a desperate attempt to lose weight! Oh, wait. That would have been totally acceptable.
(This is not the first time I've done this, so I've encountered this reaction from multiple groups of very different women. Unless I'm talking to weightlifters or martial artists, shock-horror and the urge to talk me out of it seems to be the automatic reaction.)
In conclusion, America is messed up and I'm surprised we don't have more anorexia and bulimia.
...find a random group of women who are not serious athletes, and casually mention that in order to maximize your muscle gain from a weightlifting program, you are eating more than you usually do.
Yes, you are trying to gain weight. Muscle weight. But weight nonetheless. Yes, "eating more" includes more carbs. No, you're not worried about putting on non-muscle weight. No, really. No, really. No, what you mean is not that it won't happen, but that if you put on a little fat along with the muscle, you don't care. No, really.
The reaction I got, you'd think I had announced that I was planning to go on some kind of unhealthy, near-starvation crash diet in a desperate attempt to lose weight! Oh, wait. That would have been totally acceptable.
(This is not the first time I've done this, so I've encountered this reaction from multiple groups of very different women. Unless I'm talking to weightlifters or martial artists, shock-horror and the urge to talk me out of it seems to be the automatic reaction.)
In conclusion, America is messed up and I'm surprised we don't have more anorexia and bulimia.
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