Hey, i'm looking at starting going to a gym near me soon (TotalFitness) sometime next week when i have the days off work, however it has been literally years since i went to any kind of established facility with regards to fitness etc and since then certain things have left me very self concious about my body.
Generally i'm a pretty confident guy, the life of the party etc, however my achilles heel (Metaphoric not literal) is my chest, i have pectus excavatum or sunken chest, it sinks in somewhere between half an inch and an inch.
it's probably so pronounced because i'm really quite thin and have battled with what i would term as an eating disorder (only eating when i feel quite hungry and bingeing when i do eat, then days when i eat very little or nothing at all)
I have always been very self concious about this since i was younger and i'm generally quite uncomfortable when i think about many people seeing my chest and sniggering over me, i know it's a somewhat stupid phobia to have but yea i have it.
I guess i'm just asking for reassurance that it wont be that bad or that there aren't that many people who go to the gym just to belittle or judge others, i know it's probably irrational but hey thats me
Generally i'm a pretty confident guy, the life of the party etc, however my achilles heel (Metaphoric not literal) is my chest, i have pectus excavatum or sunken chest, it sinks in somewhere between half an inch and an inch.
it's probably so pronounced because i'm really quite thin and have battled with what i would term as an eating disorder (only eating when i feel quite hungry and bingeing when i do eat, then days when i eat very little or nothing at all)
I have always been very self concious about this since i was younger and i'm generally quite uncomfortable when i think about many people seeing my chest and sniggering over me, i know it's a somewhat stupid phobia to have but yea i have it.
I guess i'm just asking for reassurance that it wont be that bad or that there aren't that many people who go to the gym just to belittle or judge others, i know it's probably irrational but hey thats me