Music festival tips for big girls

thatbeautifulchick wrote: »

Welp, my boyfriend and I are going to our first music festival together, we were a COVID couple who met doing stand up comedy. To me , I envision I will have some challenges my very skin y boyfriend will not be facing. From clothing, to needing to sit more often, to find a float I can get on myself for the river stage. Just basically everything and I know there's a lot I'm not thinking of. I am steady losing weight to get back down to my precovid size but I got to at least be in shape for this (it's July 15th, and we are in California where it's crazy hot lol)

Please leave any comments, tops, tricks, advice, suggestions, prayers . . . Lol

Let me know what I should bring that I'm not thinking of and how to survive this with this extra 85 pounds on me. I've gotten some dope outfits and Shein but if anyone else knows some affordable plus size festival clothing lmk please!

Thanks in advance, I am having major social anxiety about my body and there's a lot going to be on display that I usually try hard to keep covered on stage at night when in front of people 😂🙃

Help lol

I understand that your post is more about looking nice and feeling too hot, but there's also an undercurrent about maybe tiring faster than your boyfriend, not being able to do as much.

That last bit is partly about weight loss (in two ways, more about that later), but also partly about fitness. If you're not working out now, or not much (you don't say), it's not too late to start a moderate increase in exercise. I'm not suggesting you overdo and hurt yourself, but something like moderate walking, swimming, bicycling, low-impact aerobics, active VR or video games - something just a small, manageable challenge to your current fitness level - can pay off in a month's time. Keep enough rest/recovery in there (that's when the fitness improvement really happens, from repair and adaptation), don't go crazy and exhaust or injure yourself.

Doing something somewhat similar to the challenges you'll face at the festival would be ideal, so if that's walking/standing, maybe work on that. If you visualize stooping, squatting, lifting, stairs, bending being part of it, practice that, too - you can even work on some of those in spare moments through your day, just doing a few reps of slightly challenging but manageable movements, repeatedly.

My perspective: Before weight loss, I was obese, and had been training/competing as an athlete for over a decade. I started in my mid/late 40s, and started slowly. The early gains in fitness can be surprisingly significant, and being 85 pounds overweight is not an insurmountable obstacle to making progress.

On the weight loss front, I can understand that you may feel motivated by the festival to go to extreme fast loss goals. Think hard before doing that: Fast loss is a stress on your body. It can deplete your energy, bring on weakness, compromise your immune system. Just give it a think, try to balance your short term goals with short/long term good health.

-- Signed, your concerned li'l ol' internet surrogate auntie/granny who cares about you, despite being a total stranger (I guarantee I'm old enough to be that!)