Progressing on your fitness journey is an exciting time. So much hard work, literal sweat, and maybe tear, and you’re finally seeing success! Of course you want to share your achievements with others. But on the same time, sharing your progress could make you seem vain. This can be a tricky situation to navigate, so try sticking to these guidelines.

Don’t Be a Know-It-All
You’ve made some breakthroughs, but that doesn’t necessarily make you an expert on health. Plus, giving unsolicited “advice” to others can make you seem patronizing. And while your results might make you more qualified to give advice than any regular old couch potato, you should be cautious advising anyone unless you have a degree in fitness or nutrition. What works for you might not work for another person, and worse, providing bad advice can get that person injured.

Be Modest
There’s a fine line between being proud about your accomplishments and being show-offy about them. Consider your language when talking or posting about your progress. Try not to frame it as, “Check out how awesome my abs look!” Some people might see this as unbridled enthusiasm, but most others will just see this as bragging. Instead, focus on the work you’ve put in, the progress you’ve made, and the journey you still have to make.

Don’t Overshare
We all have that friend. You know, the one who posts almost every day with a map of the route they ran that afternoon. Don’t be that friend. If you feel compelled to share your fitness progress–which you have every right to–just don’t do it every day. You want to surprise people with the improvements you’ve made, and you can’t do that when you’re updating folks on the miniscule details of your gym-going experience. Skip the daily gym check-ins and selfies. Instead, make sharing an every-once-in-a-while thing.

Don’t Make It the Only Thing You Talk About
Your fitness progress can be the biggest thing in your world, but that doesn’t mean it’s important to everyone else. Think about all the baby photos you see on Facebook and all the lame stories your coworkers tell you about their weekends. Those can be the most important things going on in their lives, but that doesn’t mean you have to care. You should realize that your friends and family might also get sick of hearing about your fitness progress.

Remember Your Audience
While not everyone will care about the progress you’ve made, some are more likely to have an interest. If you’ve made friends at the gym or you’re in a Crossfit group with some wonderful people, you know you all have fitness in common. They’re likely want to hear more about your fitness than, say, your coworkers. If you feel the urge to share, consider opening up a group chat or private group with like-minded people.

Keep It to the Fitness Social Networks
Better yet, keep your fitness progress updates contained to the places they’re most appropriate: fitness-centered social networks. It’s a big world of social media out there, and Facebook and Instagram are no longer the best places to post about your fitness. There are much better networks, such as MyFitnessPal and Fitbit, that were built specifically for sharing your fitness progress.