"I am constantly working out-circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping, and sticking to 1200 calories a day. It can't be something that you're doing to lose weight, and then once you do, you're done. I do it every day of my life"
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The specificity does a lot of cultural work. “Circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping” reads like a checklist of respectable suffering: high-output, low-glamour exercises that signal seriousness. And “1200 calories a day” is a number that functions like a badge. It’s both confessional and competitive, inviting admiration while normalizing an extreme baseline. In celebrity talk, numbers create credibility; they also create contagion.
The subtext is the treadmill logic of pop visibility in the 2000s and 2010s, when women’s bodies were treated as public property and “wellness” became the safer word for control. “Every day of my life” lands less as motivation than as quiet alarm. It tells you the job is never finished, because the audience is never finished looking.
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Rimes, LeAnn. (2026, January 16). I am constantly working out-circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping, and sticking to 1200 calories a day. It can't be something that you're doing to lose weight, and then once you do, you're done. I do it every day of my life. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-am-constantly-working-out-circuit-training-126565/
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Rimes, LeAnn. "I am constantly working out-circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping, and sticking to 1200 calories a day. It can't be something that you're doing to lose weight, and then once you do, you're done. I do it every day of my life." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-am-constantly-working-out-circuit-training-126565/.
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"I am constantly working out-circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping, and sticking to 1200 calories a day. It can't be something that you're doing to lose weight, and then once you do, you're done. I do it every day of my life." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-am-constantly-working-out-circuit-training-126565/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




