Gym question. Why Pizza and donuts?

That is nuts!

That sounds more like scrapbook store crop food. Which was just as strange to me...but I digress...

The smell would be off putting to me too...

One of the fittest people I know eats more pizza than any other person I know. And he's extremely fit and healthy. Just because he eats pizza doesn't make him unfit. It probably makes him more fit.  A lot of people who work out still eat pizza and donuts. It's obviously a special event, so it would make sense to have something typical for that kind of socializing rather than rabbit food. Most people I know would be more likely to stay away if it's just rabbit food. I'm a firm believer that denying oneself of real food (even junk) is a surefire way to make any kind of plan (eating or getting healthy or whatever) backfire. It's just not natural to eat healthy all the time.

No...that is DOnuts!! (*giggle*)

And now I want donuts.

because they don't really give a shit if you lose weight or not? they just want to get more people in the doors to get more $$. I read something recently where planet fitness and the like bank heavily on members going for a couple months and then stopping. if everyone that signed up actually went, there wouldn't be enough room in the facility! they depend on your keeping it going because "it's only $10/mo, i'll pick it back up" and you don't. and you know there are some people to whom "hey, $10/mo and i'll eat that in pizza!" is a good deal.

I believe you! Except my gym is $100 a month and they still do a hard sales pitch daily.
The other thing I noticed is that after going there a year no one loses any weight, the people I see in my clases, their weight remains the same.

My Planet Fitness does a pizza evening and a bagel morning once a month. I was only there on a bagel morning once. They were cut in fourths and looked dried out, so it was easy to avoid. I do find it odd, but not everyone who goes to the gym is there to lose weight.

When I went to the Y, they had coffee and tea, and offered printouts of healthy recipes and other literature.

I do enjoy the fresh floral arrangements in the women's locker room.

Yeah, one just opened not far from us and I joined. For a month. Figured it was cheap and it would give me a place to do the compound lifts I can't do at home. Nope. Pretty much if you want to do something beyond a treadmill or elliptical or some really light weights on machines, you are in the "meathead" territory and they'll ask you to stop. I don't know why they even have any free weights, because they seem to actively discourage people from using them. 

That's weird. I have yet to see them doing that at mine. I see some serious lifters every morning and I have yet to see anyone stop them from doing certain stuff. 

I do wish they'd do something about the few girls that seem to be using it as a club to pick up guys though. 

I used to work at a gym all through college but we never had pizza or donut days. Sometimes we would have sales reps come in to sample energy drinks but that's about it. Every once in a while I would have to eat my dinner at the front desk because no other staff was around. People would get annoyed that I would be eating, but my managers allowed it so I just tried to be as discrete as possible.

I belong to Planet Fitness & noticed they do a pizza night. Not a problem for me, I don't like pizza. I find it rather funny, but I guess it's a way to keep business. As far as free weights, our PF has them & I've seen some pretty serious lifters. They haven't said a thing to them. They discourage loud noises, but it states that on the door. I go with my daughter & we jog on the treadmill & chat, no one has said anything. It seems to be a pretty clean, laid back gym. I like it.

I go to Planet Fitness. The first Monday of the month is pizza night, and the first Tuesday morning is bagels. Guess what? You don't have to eat them.