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Don’t get Fat!
How Gaining Weight Broke Me and What It Taught Me About Self-Respect
It’s way more hard to lose weight than to gain weight and when you maybe eventually lose the weight you might even end up with loose skin
Get fat is like stressing your skin out
I didn’t mean to gain weight. It happened little by little skipping workouts, eating late, telling myself I’d start again on Monday.
I didn’t notice how far I had slipped until one day I looked in the mirror and saw someone I barely knew. My clothes didn’t fit, my face looked tired, and I felt heavy in every way not just in my body, but in my mind.
At first, I tried to laugh it off. I told myself I was fine, that weight didn’t matter, that people should accept me as I was. But, I wasn’t happy. I stop checking my self out on my mirrors, i stop taking photos, and skip social events.
I stayed quiet when people talked about fitness or clothes. I kept pretending it was okay, but it wasn’t.
My partner noticed too. He used to compliment me all the time, but the kind words turned into comments about how I “used to look…
