Body Positivity, Part Two
This semester I purchased a pass for the “Mind Body” classes at our fitness center, meaning for $80 I can go to any of the classes teaching multiple variations of yoga and pilates that are offered daily.
It has been awesome! I’ve gone the past five weeks for at least five and up to seven days a week! I’ve been feeling so much stronger and flexible and I’ve already noticed I’m feeling more at home in my body.
On Saturday this past weekend I went swimming and in the ladies locker room there is a scale so I thought I would check it out. I’ve lost 7 lbs in 5 weeks! At first I was pretty excited.
Then when I was telling people I was kind of taken aback by some various reactions. Some were very positive reactions- a guy friend at the restaurant I work at kept telling me I look amazing. But he kept saying things like that so much that I eventually thought “Hey… didn’t I look good before?”
The even more pronounced reaction I’m thinking of came from one of my very blunt girlfriends, who is so sweet and never means to be taken as caustic- she’s just very frank sometimes. She said “Wow! That means you’ve lost a lot of fat, since you’re building muscle too.”
This is a true statement, but also the way it was put… I thought “I had a lot of fat…?”
But in the end, it’s all just NUMBERS!
What really makes me happy is feeling how strong I’ve gotten, in my back and everywhere. How I can practically touch my nose to my knees now in forward bend (and I couldn’t even touch my TOES with my fingertips in high school!) and how I don’t collapse out of plank position anymore.
And also for the discipline that I’ve been maintaining. I’ve always made plans to go to the gym on a regular basis but this is a record for me!
Hope everyone is loving their bodies, not matter what shape they’re in. We’re all beautiful people!
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