I think, if anything, a it made me addicted to changing, right? Because im, you know, this thing had been impossible for me. And then when i took it on and i learned that i could change it, i was like, well, i can fix anything. Then if, if anything's wrong, i can apply like my full self to it and focus and change it. That's far more true for something like weight, because there is like, a science to it. It's callories in, callories out. And it's not as true to something like, i'm going to fix my mental health, like it is just not as fixible. Or
From the time she was a little girl, Elna Baker had dreamed of being thin. And she did become thin. She lost close to 100 pounds in five months. For a while Elna thought she was living her dream life, until she realized that she had lost herself in the process.
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