I did an art residency almost 2 years ago and was quite overweight at the time— 5’4” and around 180. I was, uhh, smoking tons of cigarettes and weed, pounding back Mountain Dew Kickstarts for energy, and initially eating like I normally did— basically, really self-destructive choices. And I was living with all these fancy art people (they were mostly rich kids) and immediately felt ashamed of my choices. We’d go to the grocery store in a group and I saw how thin people shopped and what they bought. We’d all make dinner for each other and I saw how a normal meal looks. (I briefly internally blamed my parents for teaching me awful eating habits— for some reason when I was growing up we wouldn’t really have “meals” a lot, it was a lot of McDonald’s and fending for ourselves.) I started eating a little healthier— just, yanno, more fruits and veggies— and when I got back from my residency (around 1 month) I’d lost around 10 pounds. This despite tons of weed and munchies, and not actively trying to lose weight.
Almost 2 years later and now I’m at around 155 and maintaining that weight/slowly losing more (and also my hair looks a lot better) and I realized the reason I was able to maintain was because I’d seen, for a month, how thin people eat. Shocking surprise: they don’t eat processed crap- in the past I’d occasionally lost weight but just by eating a limited amount of calories comprised of junk food. That never lasted. But it was as if having the proper behavior modeled, and living in a place where it was more normal to eat healthy, changed something in me.
Has anyone else had a realization like this that has helped change how you view things?
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