{"id":2149,"date":"2022-04-03T23:05:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T23:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2022-04-03T23:05:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T23:05:32","slug":"im-plus-sized-and-this-is-how-i-fell-in-love-with-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2149","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m plus-sized and this is how I fell in love with exercise&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I didn&#8217;t start exercising until my mid-twenties. I&#8217;m plus size and wasn&#8217;t athletic in school, and I&#8217;d never found a sport I liked. Honestly, it just always felt like such a chore. I&#8217;d also previously used\u00a0exercise only to punish myself, desperately trying to shrink my body. Eventually, I just gave exercise up altogether in youthful defiance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I finished school and didn&#8217;t have to attend P.E classes anymore, that was the end of my relationship with exercise. Besides incidental walking, that was about it! Then I was hit with the combination of working in an\u00a0unfulfilling job\u00a0and going through a\u00a0painful breakup. My mental health took a dive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bodyandsoul.com.au\/fitness\/im-plussized-and-this-is-how-i-fell-in-love-with-exercise\/news-story\/d4aa85bfbd751c2950054687c84086c0?nk=d2043a36d0b008e21015f211615d927c-1649027041\">Body &amp; Soul<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t start exercising until my mid-twenties. I&#8217;m plus size and wasn&#8217;t athletic in school, and I&#8217;d never found a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}