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Alissa Nutting

  • You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup.

    • Alissa Nutting,
    • "Promiscuous Fitness," in O: The Oprah Magazine ()
  • ... exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have to see a few times a week.

    • Alissa Nutting,
    • "Promiscuous Fitness," in O: The Oprah Magazine ()
  • I'd always begun a new workout program highly motivated. ('What brings you here?' a trainer once asked. Well, I thought, last night while undressing, I found a pile of Oreo crumbs in my cleavage..)

    • Alissa Nutting,
    • "Promiscuous Fitness," in O: The Oprah Magazine ()

Alissa Nutting, U.S. writer