"Terrified of team sports? Can't do a chin-up? These things don't actually mean you're a fitness failure, no matter how loudly your internal gym teacher yells and blows that whistle. Why not brainstorm some ways that you can track your fitness progress that don't feel so yucky and punitive?"

Reprinted with permission from The Unapologetic Fat Girl’s Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts by Hanne Blank, copyright © 2012. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group.” Ten Speed Press retains all copyrights and the right to require immediate removal of this material for copyright or other business reasons.