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19 kilograms what can i do for me each
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day is is the biggest thing really for
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when i was dealing with my eating
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nowhere to go to get out of that world
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and come into reality and live your life
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for the past eight years i was
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and i wasn't diagnosed but i had an
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eating disorder um so yeah very underway
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i also experienced a lot of like body
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dysmorphia through that
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literally the past year
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um like actually a year ago today
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embarked on my weight gain journey and
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19 kilograms um and a whole lot of
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happiness and confidence and
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life in me and personality um
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but yeah i have dealt with a mental
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health issue and it's really unfortunate
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how common it is in today's society
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so you talk very openly on instagram and
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social media about your challenges and
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journey to weight gain and i imagine
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that must resonate enormously with your
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quite sizable online following yeah it's
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it's quite shocking how many people do
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it's really lovely how they find it so
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helpful because well i'm on my page and
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i have this thing where i post like a
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daily challenge um where people will try
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and complete in their days so that could
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be facing a fear food or
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opening up to their mum about um
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something that they're struggling with
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it can be a very small thing but it can
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make such a difference and it really
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keeps them accountable as well and it's
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just really nice for people to find this
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positive message online because for me
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when i was dealing with my eating
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nowhere to go to i couldn't find any of
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this information i didn't know that
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weight gain was a positive thing i
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always saw it as something really
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but i'm i'm here today to show that it's
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amazing thing so some of the things that
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i've really used to help my mental
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health is especially being in shrimp
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sports i've used a sports psychologist
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um and that has helped so much i think
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it's very difficult when you're getting
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into training and you're getting into
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becoming more of a competitor it's very
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easy to compare yourself to others and
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that can negatively impact how your how
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your competitions go or how your
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training can go so that has been
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something that i've i've really utilized
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over the last couple of years is uh
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reaching out to psychologists and also
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friends and family and actually speaking
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out when you're when you're going
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so you mentioned a sports psychologist
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not everyone would have access to one so
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what were the takeaways that um people
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watching this could implement in their
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lives so i think the main thing is just
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to really try to focus on you it's so
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easy you know with social media and you
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know even when you're looking at other
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people just to constantly compare
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yourself to other people so
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as difficult as it might be just taking
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that first step to just focus on right
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what can i do to make myself feel five
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percent better each day or just to feel
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that little bit better each day for
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yourself rather than thinking about what
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somebody else is doing so really just
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honing in on yourself what can i do for
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me each day is is the biggest thing
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really so there's lots of research about
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comparison culture and how it can be a
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total menace on our mental health and
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there must be days when you find
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yourself comparing yourself to others
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more than days when maybe you're feeling
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much better about yourself
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what simple strategies do you put in
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place on those days so it doesn't get
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demoralizing and damaging get off my
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like get off my phone get outside like
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be in nature be with friends be with the
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people that make you feel good
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whether that's friends family whoever
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get out of that world and come into
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reality and live your life rather than
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trying to live other people's
