Please dont wear perfumes to the gym

As a mother of a son allergic to peanuts, yes I DO and did complain about peanut free lunch rules. My son knows not to stick his hand in other peoples lunch boxes. And my daughter shouldnt be limited by my sons allergies.

YOU have the allergy, its YOUR responsibility to cope and figure out alternatives, not everybody elses

So my takeaway is this: :laugh:

If I wear makeup to the gym and it doesn't slide off my face, someone's gonna think I'm taking up/wasting space in the weight room. If I don't wear makeup to the gym, someone else is gonna think I look like smashed @$$holes.

If I wear cute, form fitting workout clothes to the gym, someone is gonna think I am trolling for guys and/or lookin' to get laid, but if I come in wearing an oversized tee and baggy azz sweats, someone else thinks I've given up on myself (in my defense, tho, my baggy clothes ARE laundered and fresh smelling....)

Which brings me to this... If I smell laundered and/or have residual scent from earlier in the day, I am an inconsiderate buffoon who thinks nothing of closing off people's airways, but if I'm not wearing deodorant, my sweat stank is going to get me looked at sideways because someone else is going to think I don't get personal hygiene.

Got it... :bigsmile:

I KNEW there was a reason I purchased equipment for home, lol...because I would offend/be judged by everyone in the course of any given week, lol! Okay, the real reason is because I just love the convenience of having the equipment available when I want to use it, but you get what I'm saying. Nobody is going to make everyone happy.

Edited for stupid auto correct typos...

Re-edited to see if anyone else is suddenly getting advertisements for essential oils on their sidebars all of a sudden, lol!

Re-edited to see if anyone else is suddenly getting advertisements for essential oils on their sidebars all of a sudden, lol!

Again, this is where education is important. Peanut induced Anaphylactic shock, and death, is extremely rare. Most kids who are allergic to peanuts simply get hives. The very few, (less than one half of one percent) who have extreme reactions have epi pens. And if they are that allergic, it is even MORE important for them to be exposed to daily routine that includes peanuts. You are doing that child no favors by sheltering her. You are doing more harm than good.

Some allergies are cumulative. One exposure can mean hives, and the next can be an anaphylactic reaction - and you can never predict how many exposures it will take to get to be that point. Giving a child an epipen shot, or receiving one from the child's perspective, is (a) not guaranteed to save the child's life and (b) a really scary experience that it is not necessary for that child to ever have to have. It is not ever important or intelligent to expose an allergic child to an allergen. If you mean to say that peanut allergic children need to know how to protect themselves, I agree. I also think that the rest of us can take an important role in keeping them safe. Children aren't always equipped to protect themselves even when they've been told a million times that something will hurt them.

I don't shelter my non-peanut allergic children. I emphasize to my children that we need to be conscious and courteous to other people and do our best to keep other people safe too. I am not doing any harm to my daughter by teaching her that sometimes you have to put a "want" for yourself (like a peanut butter sandwich) aside for the "need" of another human being (i.e. not having an allergic reaction at school). Again, my children, thankfully, do not have food allergies.

This makes me infinitely happy that I invested in home gym equipment. Not because of all the things that people are complaining about in this thread - but because in my gym, there is no judgment.

I have my own gym at home too...

...but management there is really critical of me...constantly judging my level of effort and results.

He...um, I mean, "they" also leave the bar loaded after workouts too.

I wonder why if a girl wears perfume/makeup, that it's anyone's business.

is this real life?

Thank you. For those of you who are protesting this idea, there are some scent-free workplaces. Do you complain about schools that implement peanut-free lunch rules? No? Because you don't think it's OK for kids to have to worry about going to the hospital after lunch break?

Yes, I try to balance my horrendously-bad allergies with other people's freedom to smell however they want, but when you're dousing yourself in perfume after your workout in our small locker room, then you're just a d-bag.

perfume haters vs anaphylactic shock from eating peanuts. Get over yourself.

Oh, I bet the detergent aisle at the grocery store is deadly

is this real life?

is this just fantasy?

Caught in a landslide