walking tall

slim_photographer

It's funny the number of excuses us overweight people tell ourselves when on route to being fit. One of them being: "Well I really won't like having loose skin around my belly".
Another one, and the one I'm throwing onto you guys for tips and advice is "well, I've seen how people that was fat walk when they get thin, they never learn to walk tall". Of course this is only an excuse.
Do I want to be an insecure overweight dude that has physiological limitations for walking tall or do I want to be that dude that needs to unlearn a bad posture from all of those years of feeling like apologizing for my size after I actually lost all the weight?
The answer is obvious and I'm asking you guys for tips on how to do this.

I have tried lifting my chest and chin while walking and it feels rather arrogant, I may just be too self conscious.

Does any one has any suggestions?

Black_Swan

I am sorry but I have no experience with being seriously over weight, but I think that to get to the normal weight range people like this need to work very hard and then they might be actually proud of all that hard work and enjoy new clothes, new way people look at them.
I think this is most often the case, that people learn to enjoy their new body and lifestyle... also it helps to feel good because then its harder to slip into old habits, in my opinion.

lovejoydavid

It's funny the number of excuses us overweight people tell ourselves when on route to being fit. One of them being: "Well I really won't like having loose skin around my belly".
Another one, and the one I'm throwing onto you guys for tips and advice is "well, I've seen how people that was fat walk when they get thin, they never learn to walk tall". Of course this is only an excuse.
Do I want to be an insecure overweight dude that has physiological limitations for walking tall or do I want to be that dude that needs to unlearn a bad posture from all of those years of feeling like apologizing for my size after I actually lost all the weight?
The answer is obvious and I'm asking you guys for tips on how to do this.

I have tried lifting my chest and chin while walking and it feels rather arrogant, I may just be too self conscious.

Does any one has any suggestions?

I recommend using a physio/therapy ball. That is, sitting on one at home, doing a full range of core stabilization exercises on it (ab crunch, superman, weighted reverse flies in the superman position, etc). Walking tall, as it were, may be mostly psychological, but if you get the postural muscles powerful using an unstable platform (like the physio ball) at least there will be nothing physiological in your way. I certainly cannot give you a comprehensive list of exercises here (you can find them online), but do get a ball that is correct for your height, and remember that the activities will be more difficult the more that you inflate the ball.