Now i’m spending time unlearning fat shame and learning to listen to my body and what feels good for it.
Befit easthampton ma free#
The gym can really suck (especially for those of us who do not fit fatphobic and racist beauty standards) but i’m going to spend my time there trying to make it a space that can not only be fun but also shame free while also totally getting that you can be fit (and fabulously fat) without spending time or money on a place that can still make so many feel like utter shit. it can be such a toxic place which seems to care about everything but health. but i still totally get why some people avoid it.
Befit easthampton ma how to#
gym culture can make all of this hard because fitness so often seems to equate to thinness in workout spaces but i’ve been figuring out how to take up space at the gym with my fabulous fat (and fit) body, exaggerating moves and turning the whole experience into some kind of performance. fitness to me is about self-love, whether that be lifting heavier and sweating more at the gym or staying home with a pint of ice cream because the world feels like too much that day. it’s about listening to my body and loving myself at every size despite what the world tells me. we need to focus less on the numbers on the scale and more on what healthy means to us.įitness (to me) is about taking care of myself which happens to include my mental health. and i’m asking that we start focusing on measures that make sense for our lives, whether that be having an easier time getting out of bed in the morning or struggling less with our groceries or lifting twice our body weight at the gym.
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I also spent years avoiding the gym (and fitness in general) not taking care of my body because the measures of success too often involved scales and shame (so much shame) and a focus on weight loss. i’ve read them, internalized them and spent years unlearning the things they claimed to know about my body. and yes, i have read the articles (including the most recent one from across the pond – it wasn’t peer-reviewed if that’s something that matters to you) that argue that fatness and fitness cannot co-exist. I’m here to tell you that you can be both fat and fit. What do you think? Do you also find out puzzling? The sun setting over Mo’orea, an island in French Polynesia I’m not sure why people believe this but they seem to. To me it can only be explained by a kind of prejudice against larger bodies, that those of us who have them can’t be trusted and shouldn’t be believed. That’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Instead Ragen like lots of amateur athletes runs and walks her marathons. She’s never claimed to run the whole thing. There are medals, race finishing photos, pictures of completion times. Like, why would you even doubt that she’s telling the truth? You can check out all their races at (enter 17SDRagen and you’ll even save ten bucks!) #lifetimetrisandiego #womenfortri #athenaproud #lifetimetri #fatpride #healthateverysize #fathlete #sponsoredĪ post shared by Ragen Chastain on at 5:40pm PDT Special thanks to the ultra supportive crew, volunteers, spectators, and I’m definitely going back next year! If you’ve ever wanted to try a tri, this is the perfect race. Got my race pictures from Life Time Tri San Diego already! The race was super organized and super well marked, totally beginner and slow athlete friendly. Since presumably People magazine has its own fact checkers maybe that’s shut them up. The Ragen haters have their own blog IronFacts, which is a debunking blog which supposedly tells the truth about Ragen and details her lies. You can follow Ragen’s journey to Ironman here at her blog IronFat. It’s a post about a Facebook group she was in that allowed a lot of Ragen trolling, bashing, and skepicism to go unchecked. Tracy blogged about it here, When “pathetic” loses its irony. What gets me about Ragen is not what she’s done, though that’s remarkable at any size, it’s the lengths people will go to deny it.
Befit easthampton ma plus#
See my post (Updated) Plus sized endurance athletes, we exist! She’s not alone as a larger endurance athlete. She’s actually completed two because the first time she didn’t know it would put her in the Guinness book of records and she didn’t notify them. This week Ragen Chastain appeared in People Magazine as the heaviest woman to ever complete a marathon.
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You can tell people, if you’re me, that you’re a non drinking, non fast food eating, vegetarian but people don’t really believe you.īut it’s also true that no one believes what we do when it comes to activity either.
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Earlier this week, I talked about the lack of credibility given to fat people when it comes to what we eat.