# @sheli_mccoyofficial on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DMGVpNIMl2S
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/39333054-sheli-mccoyofficial-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-07-14T18:56:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sheli McCoy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@sheli_mccoyofficial) — https://gondola.cc/sheli_mccoyofficial

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Baby how you feeling ? I’m feeling good as hell …. 

It’s funny, you know — I’ve actually been self-conscious about my body my entire life… and from all angles and for many reasons. 

As a young girl into sports, I was teased at school and called “a man” for having strong athletic legs and little abs.

In college and uni, I felt ashamed and embarrassed for being stocky, overweight, unhealthy, and then ultimately unhappy.

Then when I threw myself into fitness to fix that weight issue, I was told I looked underweight, like a lollipop head… again, I was constantly made to feel small and scrutinized.

And even as I improved in sport, became an athlete, won a few medals and titles and even now — at my peak, at my strongest, happiest, most confident — over the last 12 years of falling in love with fitness… the comments haven’t stopped. 

I’m still openly and loudly judged for my shape and size , i was laughed at for my passion in sports and to learn something new and be better … I cant tell you how often I was talked about In what’s app groups even by “friends”. Not to mention talked down to. 🥱 

BUT here’s what I’ve learned:

🤠 Everyone has an opinion, but yours is the only one that actually matters.

🤠 Your body tells the story of your lifestyle and your choices — what you do consistently shows. Good or bad.

🤠 Just because you have an opinion on my (or any woman’s) body… doesn’t mean we want to hear it.

🤠 Confidence isn’t the absence of judgment — it’s caring more about your own voice than anyone else’s echo.

🤠 The way you speak to yourself matters more than how anyone else speaks about you — be kind, be hype, be your own biggest fan.

🤠 Your body isn’t a trend. It doesn’t need to be smaller, leaner, thicker, stronger, or softer just because the internet says so.

🤠 No one above you would ever tear you down … 

Take it from me , build the body that keeps you safe, makes you proud and will carry you through this forever challenging life . 

Shel, out 🐚 🎤 

Kit : hybrydfit (Sheli10) 

#Mindset #Body #Weightloss #Transformation #Challenges #judgment #Opinions #girlswithmuscle #crossfitgirls #olympicweightlifting #shelimccoy #bodypositivity

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transformation, crossfitgirls, mindset, judgment, challenges, bodypositivity, weightloss, girlswithmuscle, body, shelimccoy, opinions, olympicweightlifting

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