After losing a considerable amount of weight over the course of two years and hitting the gym to add muscle it really is incredible how vain people are. When I was overweight I never got hit on by strangers or had women make excuses to touch my arms or chest in casual conversation. It boosted my confidence tremendously and really helped with my low self esteem but it still amazes me how different people treat me just because I am in shape.
I can remember when I was just getting started in the gym and people would laugh or look me up and down when I said I liked working out. Now people assume I lift and ask me questions about working out with me and how to get this muscle to grow.
Even my friends would make discouraging comments when I would celebrate small victories like a 10 pound weight loss. I actually got into weightlifting because one of them(a regular weightlifter) made a negative comment about me. A random person in the gym said damn you lost so much weight from doing all that cardio you look great. My friends response was to tell me hes lying and that I look sick and weird from doing so much cardio and how I needed to pickup weightlifting. I did and when I started lifting more weight than him suddenly he never wanted to lift with me again he actually quit altogether and got fat himself.
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