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I have come to a realization: I am an health/exercise snob. I used to think that I was just a health nut, but I've realized that not only do I obsess over my own diet and exercise, I look down on other people who aren't as stringent as me.

I realize that this isn't quite fair. I happen to have enough free time to work out every day, and enough disposable income to eat healthy food. Also, I have two essential health-nut qualities: I love to exercise and I think that healthy food tastes better than junk food.

That being said, people are WUSSES. They either go to the gym and pretend to work on the machines, actually doing very little at all, or they go and do real workouts, but give up when they're sore for a couple of days afterwards. Of course you're sore, you haven't gotten off your ass in two years. Or they work out for about a month, then quit when they stop dropping weight every week. Seriously, people. If it were easy, it wouldn't be called working out.

Haha, I'd be a terrible personal trainer. Yeah, I've gotten to the point where I'm pretty knowledgeable about workout routines and dieting strategies, but I'd totally be the bitch-ass boot-camp type of personal trainer. I think that a required quality in trainers is the patience to deal with people and a positive attitude that enforces the belief that getting in shape is achievable. However, I have no patience for wusses and I don't really have the empathy to take things slow with them or help them out that much.

I guess the reason that I don't get it is because I'm addicted to exercise. While some people's stress response is to eat, mine is to go running. I totally live for the endorphin rush. Also, I put much more stock in my personal appearance than most people. It probably stems from some sort of low self esteem, but I need tangible proof that I'm physically equal or superior to other people, or else I feel ugly. Or maybe it's a competitive thing: I totally strive to match or better the other gym rats. In any case, my attitude is probably not the healthiest to have, but the result is that I'm in damn good shape.