Health & Wellness

I’m Trying Thrive by Le-Vel and You Won’t Believe How my First Day Went

The Honest Truth as I Embark on a Wellness Journey with Le-Vel (Pt2)

Jamie Gartner
ILLUMINATION
Published in
7 min readApr 23, 2023

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Photo of Author outside in front of trees with a thinking emoji and the question — “Day one — What’s the Real story?”
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I’m usually the first to bristle at one of those posts where some woman is so excited for cleaning out the whole attic, basement, garage, and three closets in one single weekend. Dude. Stop making us all look bad!

It is decidedly worse when such unbridled accomplishment is made through the means of some brilliant miracle drink or shake or patch that just gleams like an all too shiny scam that couldn’t possibly or actually be a thing… at least not without costing us three weeks’ pay each month.

Add to that jubilant cleaning frenzy of accomplishment — a smile, a before and after picture, and a “Down 2 Sizes Already!” Ugghh.

Yes, of course that “ugghh” feeling is rooted in unwavering jealousy and self loathing at my own lack of ambition, drive, or energy to complete even one of the household cleaning and organizing projects I’ve had on my list for the past five years. (Not to mention the stagnant scale shamefully hidden in the back of the closet behind my bags of clothes to be donated because they sure as hell don’t fit me anymore.)

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Jamie Gartner
ILLUMINATION

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