You
canbefitwithoutweightlifting.
And there is no shame in not being into weight lifting if it’s not your bag. There are other ways to get into a shape that isn’t round without weight lifting.
Because I refuse to be shamed into feeling like I’m not doing it right, or that I’m NEVER going to be in a non-round shape (which I’m getting there, slowly) because I don’t lift.
I don’t WANT to lift..mostly because I’d look like an idiot and probably hurt myself in the process. I am going to get into shape the way I want to get into shape and it doesn’t require rock hard abs or an ass that’s so high and tight that Kim Kardashian is jealous of its enormous roundness and you could also balance a tray of drinks back there without much effort.
Weightlifting and bodyweight has never been my bag. If it is YOUR bag, fine. You go do you, sugar. But it’s not mine and never will be. And that’s OK. It doesn’t HAVE to be my bag.
I’m really more about hiking and learning to run, since that’s something I am interested in. I’m loving my ballet barre’ class and I fucking LOVE yoga, even though I’m terrible at it. And am I in better shape than I was a year ago? Yes, yes I am. Will I ever have rock hard abs? No probably not and I’m 100% ok with that (at least most of the time, except when it’s late at night when I can’t sleep and I’m sobbing into my tea that I’ll never have a body like Beyoncé’s because I’m overtired and cranky).
I have an incurable autoimmune disease that wants to rob me of being able to do fun stuff. And I’m not going to let it. Stress just makes it work and stressing over whether or not I’m doing it right, whether or not I have the right form or if I’m going to accidentally injure myself doesn’t help me. So I’m not going to stress about whether or not I’m doing it wrong by not weight lifting. And screw the haters who want to jump all over me and pile on because I’m not lifting.
Also while you CAN lose weight by doing CICO (calories in, calories out), I don’t do that either for the simple fact that I have an addictive, slightly obsessive personality and when I’ve done CICO in the past, I would get freaked out about the amount of calories I’d eaten and damn near go anorexic trying to keep my calorie number down below a certain number. That’s not good either..mentally or physically. So I just try to eat as healthy as I can, keep my portion sizes reasonable and just keep moving as much as my stupid busted up body will let me. That’s all I can do and I’m OK with that..mostly. Not always because I do get into these funks where I feel like I have to push myself to do more and I always end up overdoing it and then feeling like crap afterwards. That’s not fun.
I say, fitness should be FUN and if you find something that lets you be active that’s fun, you do that. It doesn’t matter if it’s weight lifting, running, swimming or Jugger (which is a thing in Australia that I wish we had here. It’s kind of like a modern day Medieval melee’ event with big padded sticks and things combined with soccer, I think.). You want to dance your little booty off? You go do that. I’m actually considering watching YouTube videos to learn how to dance the hula from “Lilo and Stitch” because WHY THE HELL NOT, am I right? I like hula..it’s so pretty and graceful and expressive (all things which I generally am not). So screw the haters in 2020…y’all can go suck a rotten pickle for all I care. I’m going to get into a non-round shape the way I want. Not the way y’all think is the only way.