People were inspired by my growth considering these limitations. Apart from the constant struggle to stick to my workout routine, I also had to deal with stereotypical and disrespectful individuals.

Before I went deep into my fitness blog which grew up to over 20k followers on instagram (still dwindling to about 16k when I stopped), I had friends and even family talk about what people thought about fitness people. I thought it was just ridiculous. It made no sense to me at all at first till I lived it.

It’s absolutely ridiculous that it was an open secret that most fitness people are sex workers, ‘sex positive’, are not ‘relationship’ or family oriented, non-religious. Am I the only one or you see how ridiculous this sounds too? As if people are born with dumbells in their hands…as if it’s genetic. The generalization is just disgusting and shallow.

Of course I have nothing against individuals who choose their own path whatever it may be but to stereo typically put all fitness persons under one umbrella is quite daft. Every individual is different; fitness people marry, faithful to their partners, muslim, virgin, chaste, career persons, corporate individuals, fathers, name it! Didn’t think I needed to say this but we live in a world where there are more narrow minded individuals than open minded ones. More people who judge others even before knowing them and even worse if they know them; choosing to believe the superficial than what they actually know.