Do you ever transition from feeling like a fat person that always has a fitness goal and just start to feel like a normal healthy person without super weight-focused goals? Does that happen?

Pardon me as I write because I want to explain what Im thinking and hopefully you guys get the gist and are able to answer. Sorry in advance if it doesn’t make sense.

I've always been a bigger girl - now its getting a little bit out of hand and I'm starting to make changes. I lost weight once before and got down to being really healthy and strong, but I never reached that point where I stopped working towards a fitness goal. I ended up gaining the weight back because of intense and improper working conditions.

I work with a woman who genuinely enjoys working out - she's thin, and she's always been thin - she says she just likes it. She never really played sports, but she’s healthy. I want to work out, yes, but the more I think about it, that’s what I’m really working towards. If you're the type of person that ever went from overweight (presumably hating exercise), once you lose weight, do you ever become the person that just works out because it's a part of life, and not because you have this goal of fitting into something, or some other goal? I follow a page that is women's empowerment themed. They post about working (in all situations) to be your best self, but also to love yourself in each phase. The other day I saw a post the other day that basically said "your entire life is not about your weight". I felt a world wind of emotions regarding that statement. I guess part of my concern is, at some point, I'd like to feel like my existence wasn't spent working towards a goal that's fitness based. I have other things I want to accomplish, and whereas I feel that learning to love the gym, and learning to love healthy things comes with the journey, I guess I'm wondering: does the mentality ever switch? Where you don't approach life like a fat person trying to get trim forever? Hopefully this makes sense. The concept, in my mind, is oddly discouraging, and I just want to know/feel that maybe the barrier doesn't even exist once your life changes for good.

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