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I’ve been overweight since I was 12. A lifetime of emotional eating, insecurity, and suffocating social anxiety. Food was the only thing that didn’t judge me, didn’t criticize me, didn’t ask me to socialize or perform. So I kept going back to it — again and again and again.
By the time I graduated high school…
When I was around 25, I tried teaching myself Japanese. Not because I had some grand academic goal, but because I wanted to understand the lyrics I’d been singing for a decade. And honestly? I wanted to eventually see my favorite artists live and not just scream phonetically into the void.
That attempt lasted maybe…
I woke up one morning with the realization that I’ve basically been living the same year on repeat since I was 20. There’s no metaphor here; that’s the honest to God truth. Just the cold, embarrassing, wow I actually have no life truth. My 20s rolled into my 30s and barely anything changed except my weight increased…