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I wish I chose different underwear for this first progress pic bc it’s literally my skin tone. But hello. I’m down 30 lbs.
I am shocked at this progress and excited and I can’t wait to see where I’m at in another 3 months! It has honestly been so easy to drop lbs.
(Re)Educating myself on the realities of obesity, metabolic, and cardiovascular disease as well as whole food plant based lifestyle; getting diagnosed with NAFLD and sleep apnea with early signs of insulin resistance; admitting that my relationship to fast food was addictive and incredibly unhealthy; critically reevaluating “feminist” discourse around fat, health, and food...all of this made it a no-brainer that it was time to make a change and lose weight.
I have one life to live in this timeline and it has been an incredible struggle—but it doesn’t have to be.
Mentally I will struggle with my mental illnesses lifelong.
But physically? I am lucky that I have the gift of CHOICE.
Not everyone does.
It is my choice to change the way I eat and move, to reverse my risk factors for disease, to reverse diseases I already have like NAFLD and sleep apnea. Conditions related to my weight may have been causing me extreme, disabling distress and discomfort...but I have the ability to change my habits, and become well again.
If there’s ANYTHING that can be considered a privilege of ability, it’s that. I would be out of my mind to choose not to do what will help me and everyone around me who has to support me while I struggle with preventable diseases, just because I want the immediate gratification of certain foods. No thanks. That’s no way for me to live. That’s not living. That’s being enslaved to food, fleeting pleasure, and the avoidance of fear and discomfort. No more.
Life is fucking hard, but no one promised me it would be easy.
Onward!
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