Have you ever heard the phrase "beer goggles "? You know, where you've had enough beer that people look attractive who normally would not be attractive to you? I've come to realize that I wear "fat goggles" I've been fat/obese for over half my life. If I don't consciously take them off, I have "fat goggles" . I automatically think of myself as fat.
This morning I was training with Superman. He had me weaving a kettle bell around my legs in a figure eight pattern. When I first attempted it, I was trying to hold the kettle bell at knee height, and I kept banging into my thighs. Without even thinking, I said "short arms, fat legs". Superman gently corrected me by telling me "no, those are muscular legs". He's totally correct, there really isn't a lot of fat left on them. But I was looking at them through my "fat goggles", and when I'm wearing them, big equals fat.
Later, I sent him a message thanking him for reminding me that my legs are muscular and not fat. That I am slowly starting to see myself the way everyone else does. He replied with a sweet message telling me that he can see the definition through my clothes, and that big and fat has definitely morphed into big, firm and strong ❤.
