Working Out When your Plus Sized

 Cheesy grin and pose aside, I think its interesting to discuss the dynamics of working out when you are plus sized. Sometimes it feels a like damned if you do and damned if you don't vibe.

Working out in public can often draw in stares, laughs and even the odd photo snap..wearing workout gear that highlights every dimple, crevice and VBO (visable belly outline) can invite criticism. 

Showing yourself working out online can even sometimes invite those from the most radical plus sized movements to accuse you of "feeding into the diet and weightloss culture" or being a turncoat. Like a fat Judas betraying the body positivity community for 30 pieces of Fabletics gear.

Yet, if you aren't someone who works out, you're suddenly automatically painted as the archetypal stereotype we have drip fed about how fat people are supposed to act like. Lazy. Unhealthy. Slow.

It's a very weird contrast. What's interesting is that even when we are doing something challenging, fun and healthy for our bodies, we are still allowing criticisms of others to feed our low self esteem. 

Either way, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on it....

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