i have the urge..

MUByM
MUByM Posts: 208
edited November 9 in Motivation and Support
..to jog! The problem is that I'm embarassed. I'm scared people will laugh at me. It has happened before and I don't think I can handle it. Should I just go for it?

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  • Jipples
    Jipples Posts: 650 Member
    I've been wanting to get into biking, but being 6'-3" and needing to drop about 60lbs, I was worried about how I'd look riding a bike and kept putting it off. Tuesday, I bought a bike. Put your shoes on and go run girl.
  • penmosha
    penmosha Posts: 132 Member
    Should I just go for it?

    YES!!! I felt like you when I started. What I did was to start at night. I'd run, but walk if anyone was looking or if a car passed. After a while I stopped that and now I am more likely to run when the car or person passes.

    Stick your headphones in, get a good beat going and move your *kitten*.Start slowly, run for 50 steps, walk for 20 and so on, you'll soon get the hang of it.

    Don't forget that running is one of the best ways of buring calories. oh.. and buy a good sports bra such as shockabsorber - you need to look after the girlies!
  • christina0089
    christina0089 Posts: 709 Member
    When i started my journey last year I was more than 400 pounds. I knew that I needed excercise AND diet or I was going to stay more than 400 pounds. SOoOo guess who carried their butt to the pool in a bathing suit?...ME! :noway: The same person who who went to the gym and lifted weights, walked on the tread mill, rode the stationary bike and took Zumba classes, toning classes and any other classes I could handle. I sweated, grunted and jiggled my way thru it and I didn't even bother to see any hateful people, :glasses: Well mostly, there was one occasion where I let some snobby ***** know what I thought of her unfortunate existance. :wink: But aside from that, yea people looked even stared now and again and I am sure people said things but you know what I was not doing what I was doing for THEM I was doing it for ME! I am the one who busted my *kitten* excercising and I was the one who reaped the rewards. All 65 pounds of it! I got off my journey for a number of reasons but they were not one of them. I am back on it now and guess what I'll be right back to the gym as soon as I can. I also bought 2 new bathing suits and am already swimming daily. :drinker: Who ever don't like the way I look can just not look or get over it cause I'm not going anywhere. If they are talking behind my back :grumble: they are in a good position to kiss my *kitten*, And if they have the balls to say anything to my face then I will deal with them as I go, :explode: but I WILL NOT let them dictate my excercise or lack of with their ignorance and neither should you. YOU don't need anyones approval to love yourself :heart: enough to get out there and do what you need or want to do to get healthy! NO one should ever have the power to make you unhappy :cry: so don't give it to them, instead give yourself the power to move forward in your journey. Good luck and I hope you get out there and get a good jog in! :flowerforyou:
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