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Okay So I’m Publishing This Anyway

But I won’t tell you who it is

I love great stories. I dunno about you, but I am beaten up by bad news, so I love it when someone shares a success story with me. This comment, which is in fact public, landed on a story of mine recently. It’s so good I hadda share it.

For those of us utterly stressed, eating too much, and eating too much of the wrong shit (I was, too) here is what one reader did:

It was under quarantine, I too realized I needed to do something different about my stress management. Unfortunately, I’ve always had a particularly cruel metabolism. So with the added stress of CV + being over 40 (when I can no longer take my body for granted and assume it’ll just do what I need it to do), I’d gained stress-weight and my sleep was abysmal. Granted, I had been gaining gradually over the last few years and doing little to curb it. And I had to accept exercise is not a means of weight loss, but to work the stress out of my body and I needed to build back my strength and endurance.

I had to take on a lifestyle change. In the last 4-months, I’ve returned to working out 4–5 days a week and scrutinizing my nutrition (cutting out complex carbs and booze, balancing out my macros for my needs), utilizing…