What exactly does it mean to venture outside your comfort zone? It means different things to different people. I love the example below because the person first relished not venturing out because she did not feel socially excepted in the gym.
But really, why should only perceived perfect bodies be the only ones in the gym? What about those of us who are still a work in progress? Isn't that exactly where we should be if we choose to be there? Who makes the rules that say only beautifully buff people can enter? Or do we do that to ourselves?
Today be bold, be daring, at the very least stick your toe into the waters OUTSIDE your comfort zone.
Emily Anderson wrote:
Being a fat woman at the gym is in itself an act of social disobedience.
I shouldn't be in there, taking up the space of the lithe-bodied,
unless it's with a face of sincere penance and shame. But I have claimed
the gym as my own. I celebrate being visible and fat all over the
gym--running and sweating and sometimes breaking into song, lifting
dumbbells alongside muscle-laden men with uncompleted tribal band bicep
tattoos, flinging my weight around in aerobics and finally cooling it
poolside in my bright, non-apple-body-shape flattering tankini.
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