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Hailey Lang
Professor Heaslip
Humanities
2/24/2017
Getting fit for me
Recently, I was speaking with someone generally close to me and they told me this, “It is a
shame for a woman to grow old without ever seeing the strength and beauty of which her body
is capable”.
That really particularly spoke to me in a major way. I have always been very self-conscious
about myself, but I actually have never had enough motivation and determination to actually
do something about it. That is, until I heard that. Three days later, there I am, signing up for my
new PLANET FITNESS Membership.
After years of hating myself, I am kind of slowly beginning to love myself. Every day before I
started working out, I felt disgusting. I could not stand looking at myself in the mirror. I was
always very shy when it comes to being in front of people, so shy to the point to that I never
spoke out in class because I did not want any attention to be placed on me. I couldn’t even
