Hey Fat Girl....

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  • NatalieWinning
    NatalieWinning Posts: 999 Member
    Thats right. Don't forget to stop that person and tell them WTG! More people are thinking Go you!! Than being immature and saying look at her jiggle. I saw a very large lady in the pool when I was trying to take up lap swimming. She could barely go across just walking in the water. I told her how great I thought she was doing and to keep it up, it's worth it! You have no idea how many people are seeing you as them in the beginning and cheering you on! Or looking at you wishing they had the guts. Or making a new excuse why they cant.
  • JenniferNicole26
    JenniferNicole26 Posts: 1 Member
    Love it!! Very Inspirational!
  • terryjo623
    terryjo623 Posts: 101 Member
    love it
  • laceylou0702
    laceylou0702 Posts: 226 Member
    Freaking awesome!
  • Jessie_Dawn
    Jessie_Dawn Posts: 169
    This is so awesome!! I am "the fat girl" and really... this makes me feel so much better about taking that 30 minutes and walking today when I really didn't want to!!

    thanks for sharing!!
  • Specialkayrina
    Specialkayrina Posts: 242 Member
    Great post.thanks for sharing!
  • katgirl985
    katgirl985 Posts: 212 Member
    Simply beautiful!
  • kimdarren
    kimdarren Posts: 76 Member
    What can you add to that? Very inspirational
  • RobynDCrossman
    RobynDCrossman Posts: 252
    I love this.

    I used to be that fat girl.
    Now I'm a running girl.
    Guess I was then, too. But I was too self conscious to ever look up - until someone said this to me - "YOU! are a runner!"
  • Mizzhill
    Mizzhill Posts: 33 Member
    Very cool!
  • pattan59801
    pattan59801 Posts: 142
    BUMP
  • lovelee79
    lovelee79 Posts: 362
    awww, love this, I just started running, and this really means a lot to me.
    Thanks for posting such a positive story :flowerforyou:
  • ❤lindsay❤dawn❤
    ❤lindsay❤dawn❤ Posts: 443
    Very moving... Thank You for re-posting...

    : ))
  • latinlady435
    latinlady435 Posts: 33 Member
    Thanks for much for posting. I serious feel like the "Fat Girl" every where I go, every thing I do, especially in the gym. This makes me feel a little bit of relief and in reading others comments, knowing i'm not alone in that feeling, even though inside I always feel that I am.
  • 1DayMarathonRnner
    1DayMarathonRnner Posts: 120 Member
    This is awesome! Thank you for sharing!
  • TheBigBoots
    TheBigBoots Posts: 74 Member
    Wow, this was really moving. Thanks so much for sharing!
  • stubbysticks
    stubbysticks Posts: 1,275 Member
    This is so amazing...not that long ago I was that Fat Girl. And by hanging in there & pounding the pavement, I'm a not-so-fat-girl now. Thanks for sharing!!!
  • Mel2626
    Mel2626 Posts: 342 Member
    Thanks for posting!! What a wonderful point of view!! :happy: :happy: :happy:
  • chocl8girl
    chocl8girl Posts: 1,968 Member
    <3
    I am totally the "fat girl." I never look at anyone, and I always feel so self-conscious. I've lost 79 pounds, but to most people who see me, I'm still just some fat chick. But I keep going. Because this isn't for anyone else anymore. It's for ME. Thank you for your acknowledgement and encouragement. It means a LOT.
  • CinJay
    CinJay Posts: 157 Member
    thank you for posting :flowerforyou:
  • crimznrose
    crimznrose Posts: 282 Member
    Definitely awesome!!!! I'm on my first week of Couch 2 5k and it's great motivation.

    Thanks for sharing!!!!:flowerforyou:
  • CookieCrumble
    CookieCrumble Posts: 221 Member
    That is quite simply the most breathtakingly motivational post I have ever read, here or anywhere else. Thank you so much for posting it - and to the mystery blogger: You've probably touched more lives than you know. :flowerforyou:
  • Jme2012
    Jme2012 Posts: 106 Member
    This is so awesome . .Love it!! :drinker:
  • reggie2run
    reggie2run Posts: 477 Member
    Awesome!!
  • AllisonMart
    AllisonMart Posts: 155 Member
    Love it! I am 100% the Fat Girl! Thanks for posting.
  • bewitchinglife
    bewitchinglife Posts: 167 Member
    Well, now.. that made me cry. Thanks for sharing!
  • Liasings
    Liasings Posts: 150 Member
    I may never be a runner, but I have the heart of a runner. I'm far too heavy to run now (my knees are very bad), but one day...

    This is such a moving blog; thank you soooo much for posting it!
  • saxmaniac
    saxmaniac Posts: 1,133 Member
    I'm amazed how many posters here have such a low opinion of themselves. I see attractive young people hating themselves so much. That made me think of this article:

    --

    On the boardwalk at Ipanema Beach, it’s a sunny Sunday afternoon in Rio de Janeiro. Skateboarders, rollerbladers, joggers, surfers, bikers, juicers, tanners, vacationers, staffers — they all pass by, skin shiny and mildly naked. Sand and salt and vanity fill the air.

    There are small outdoor gyms every couple hundred meters along the beach: bars for pull ups, dips, incline push ups and stretches. A jungle gym for adults. Men stop and quietly pump up their muscles for the day, then move on. It’s a place where everyone is keenly aware of those around them. A surprisingly abnormal amount of men have six packs and bulging arms. A modest, yet in-shape, man can’t help but feel a bit intimidated and envious at the chiseled physiques roaming around. Short, stocky men with barrel chests, powerful backs and perfect arms. He may think to himself: if only he could look like that, the day would be so much better.

    And one imagines that the shorter men with chiseled physiques may look at the taller men and think to themselves of how many tall guys there are at the beach today, and how it intimidates them and makes them envious. How can they compete?

    And a pale tall man may look around and loathe the guys with perfect tans, for they obviously have better beach bodies and get more attention. And the man with the perfect tan looks at the man sitting with four cute girls and envies him, wondering how does a guy find four hot girls in bikinis to go to the beach with him like that?

    And the man with the four hot girls with him is annoyed at how loud and obnoxious his sisters and their friends are and wishes he could hang out with his guy friends instead. Not far away, a man at the beach with his guy friends ignores their games and jokes and looks longingly at the girls laying out tanning topless and wonders how one would go about meeting them.

    And the girl laying out tanning wishes her boyfriend were around so the men would stop staring at her. And her boyfriend, wading into the water alone for hours on end, wishes his girlfriend would stop crowding him and demanding his attention all the time. He envies the single men who are able to roam free and do what they want whenever they’d like.

    And other girls at the beach lament that the cute boys are always gay. And the cute gay boy is so sick and tired of men who just want to have sex all the time and wishes he could find romance and something more. And the man stuck romancing his wife on their vacation wishes he were still the young, handsome lad he used to be, strutting across the beach, commanding attention on a whim.

    The white gringos admire the dark, powerful physiques of the black Brazilians and the black Brazilians admire the blonde hair and green-blue eyes of the white gringos. And the English and American and Australian boys would kill to speak some Portuguese. And the Brazilian girls wish they could understand English better.

    The skinny girls wish they had hips and the girls with hips want to be skinnier. The brunettes dye their hair blond and the blond girls wish they were darker like the brunettes. The men playing volleyball wish they could surf and the surfers wish they had the time and money to buy drinks and a nice umbrella to sit under and the men with drinks and the nice umbrellas wish they were young and healthy and playing volleyball again.

    The waves crash. Footballs bounce. People splash each other and laugh. The crisp crack of a Skol can opening echoes across every post. Children play in their own little worlds. Meanwhile, the Christ statue watches over all of them from afar, arms wide and unceasing, with stoic, loving acceptance. And the people pass on by.

    [Mark Manson, http://postmasculine.com/the-ipanema-boardwalk]
  • sazzyp1973
    sazzyp1973 Posts: 517 Member
    That is great, what an inspiring person the author is writing about and what a great person the author is for taking the time to write it. You are pretty fab too for sharing. Thanks.
  • CharleneExtreme
    CharleneExtreme Posts: 372
    This is a blog entry from flintland.blogspot.com.

    I am in love with this person!

    Hey, Fat Girl.


    Yes, you. The one feigning to not see me when we cross paths on the running track. The one not even wearing sports gear, breathing heavy. You’re slow, you breathe hard and your efforts at moving forward make you cringe.

    You cling shyly to the furthest corridor, sometimes making larger loops on the gravel ring by the track just so you’re not on it. You sweat so much that your hair is all wet. You rarely stay for more than 20 minutes at a time, and you look exhausted when you leave to go back home. You never talk to anyone. I’ve got something I’d like to say to you.

    You are awesome.

    If you’d look me in the eye only for an instant, you would notice the reverence and respect I have for you. The adventure you have started is tremendous; it leads to a better health, to renewed confidence and to a brand new kind of freedom. The gifts you will receive from running will far exceed the gigantic effort it takes you to show up here, to face your fears and to bravely set yourself in motion, in front of others.

    You have already begun your transformation. You no longer accept this physical state of numbness and passivity. You have taken a difficult decision, but one that holds so much promise. Every hard breath you take is actually a tad easier than the one before, and every step is ever so slightly lighter. Each push forward leaves the former person you were in your wake, creating room for an improved version, one that is stronger, healthier and forward-looking, one who knows that anything is possible.

    You’re a hero to me. And, if you’d take off the blaring headphones and put your head up for more than a second or two, you would notice that the other runners you cross, the ones that probably make you feel so inadequate, stare in awe at your determination. They, of all people, know best where you are coming from. They heard the resolutions of so many others, who vowed to pick up running and improve their health, “starting next week”. Yet, it is YOU who runs alongside, who digs from deep inside to find the strength to come here, and to come back again.

    You are a runner, and no one can take that away from you. You are relentlessly moving forward. You are stronger than even you think, and you are about to be amazed by what you can do. One day, very soon, maybe tomorrow, you’ll step outside and marvel at your capabilities. You will not believe your own body, you will realize that you can do this. And a new horizon will open up for you. You are a true inspiration.

    I bow to you.

    MAAAAAJOR motivation!!

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