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I have always wanted to go on a hiking trip in Europe and I’m thinking about joining a gym. I feel like the type of workout they do at CrossFit would be really helpful, but the one that is closest to me is super focused on weight loss. Has anyone been in an environment like that and managed to stay weight neutral and not get mindfucked by the weight loss rhetoric? It looks like there are actually a range of body types that work out there, but the common goal definitely seems to be weight loss.

I know I could find a different gym but I really love the proximity and their prices are great, so just wondering about y’all‘s experiences in those kinds of environments.

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Wanted to share a new fat fairy art piece. I started out creating pieces with stylistically rounded bodies, but I’m now making figurines that have rolls and fat folds, to show how beautiful we can be when we aren’t perfectly and unrealistically smooth.

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I’m in my late teens and struggle with poor self image, not because I particularly dislike the way i look, more just because i’m not a very traditional looking guy and my area is known for being pretty shallow and judgmental when it comes to like, what a person’s appearance actually indicates about them (which in itself i take issue with, y’know, don’t judge a book by the cover and all that).

For context I’m relatively average height for a guy my age, around 6”0 but i have very long dark brown hair that goes down to about the halfway point of my torso and covers a decent bit of my face. I always try and work on my facial hygiene because most of my friends seem to have such good skin, but i rarely have time to uphold a good routine with college and stuff. My face is rarely spotty, but my skin especially around my forehead, eyebrows and nose is very flakey and annoying to deal with. Moisturiser doesn’t really make a noticeable improvement.

Not many people see it besides me, but my body in terms of my torso and arms and legs are sort of where i’m the most conscious to a degree, since going to the gym is sort of viewed as like an essential thing here, something i don’t do. It’s not a matter of laziness i don’t think, i just don’t like the atmosphere of the gym. I try to get my exercise by going on journeys and doing routines at home when i can. But as the bar for what is considered the “average male body” only seems to rise i see my body as less socially acceptable.

It’s not even that i’m a large guy, my silhouette is relatively thin for what it’s worth and when i stretch i look quite skinny really, but my torso has no real definition? If that’s the right wording, like there’s no real like, outlines of anything idk. It sounds dumb because it’s really not all that serious, and for what it’s worth i’ve never liked overly muscular bodies, something about them is very unhuman looking to me. It’s just that i don’t think i’d feel so bad about my body if the culture didn’t view it as such a sin? Because I’m perfectly content with looking how i do, but i still prefer to keep it to myself.

It’s also been a major reason why i’ve stayed off dating for a little while, worried i might not be seen as masculine enough ig. That being said, if i need to look a certain way before i’m even allowed to give the person an idea of who i am i don’t know if they’re the kind of person i’d want to love anyway.

Sorry for all the writing, and don’t feel pressured to respond unless you want to, i just felt like i needed to write it down somewhere to get my feelings out of my head.

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I had to choose a slightly spooky one for Halloween 😱 It’s nice to see big bodies like mine as magical, you know?

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