glumshoe:

That kinda depends on what you’re wired for. Sometimes it helps to think of it like a power move, as if you’re baring your chest like a boxer preparing for a fight (but please do not punch your 80 year old doctor). I don’t want to advocate dissociating if that’s something you genuinely struggle with, but in specific circumstances it’s not always bad. Typically I try to reason myself out of modesty by thinking about myself with scientific detachment… the body I happen to inhabit is mammalian, it has all the features of a mammal, and my discomfort with it and my identity as an individual is separate from the mundanity of flesh.

When I had an echocardiogram done, I was wearing one of those paper gown things, and the doctor put holes in the paper for the ultrasound thing. You can ask if they could do that for yours. 

The monitor’s readout itself is pretty interesting, even though you’ll probably have no idea what you’re looking at. 

Also, keep in mind that the doctor has seen a LOT of people in various states of undress. Doctors, especially experienced doctors, don’t care.

ravenguided:

systlin:

o-leigh-ander:

systlin:

littlegreydove:

wodneswynn:

Man, when I was like 16 I got so sick of being made fun of for being the fat kid that I took an axe down inna woods, chopped down a tree, and started doing log-lifts all the time. I got strong as fuck, but I didn’t lose no weight. I actually got bigger.

Same thing happened when I got into fighting. I got even stronger, and I got *fast*, man, and nimble, like a cat. Still chubby.

Body-building culture is a bunch of crap, my dude. Functional muscle is not necessarily toned or lean. You can be swole as hell and still be heavy. And that’s cool.

Embrace your inner barbarian. And when fatphobic little gym twinks try to body shame you, you should DESTROY THEM with your MIGHTY AXE

Can comfirm, i am Quite Fat ™ but i still hit my punching bag hard enough last week make it touch the ceiling and broke a finger in the process

You know, I train with (martial arts) a bunch of dudes, and a few bodybuilders have showed up over the years. 

And every damn one of those huge shredded motherfuckers has the endurance of a fucking newborn puppy. Fifteen minutes into warmups and they’re panting for air like like they’re about to die. I’ve sparred them and every one of them telegraphs their moves about two weeks in advance, and are slower than my dead grandpa because their huge useless muscles get in the damn way. 

Now. I also work with a couple of guys who are not weightlifters. They do, however, do very physical jobs and are Big Dudes. Picture this sort of build. 

No abs to speak of, a bit of a tummy, and those motherfuckers can pick up one of the weightlifters and throw them. 

And they’re fast. Like, unfair fast. 

Bodybuilding culture is bullshit. Embrace your status as a giant barbarian and if anyone gives you crap throw them off a mountain. 

This is true for all humans, too!

At my heaviest (well over 300lbs) I still ran an 11 minute mile (pre-disability). And even when I was at my most active, and training intensely, I was never hardbodied despite working out full time. Functional muscle for me looks like horse legs and a big muscular butt with a soft tummy and big arms.

I’m built like a Celtic Warrior Goddess and I will never have a flat tummy and toned arms and that is fine by me because I could snap a grown man in half.

Yes!

Have you seen olympic powerlifters? 

This is Sarah Robles, on the USA Olympic Powerlifting team. 

Skinny? No. Could pick me up with one arm? Absofuckinglutely. 

This whole post and all the responses make me feel a lot better about myself.