A woman has shared her story to inspire others after she managed to shed an incredible 13 stone in a little over a year. Carla Piera FitzGerald, 35, says she had struggled with her size and relationship with food for years before embarking on a journey of self-reflection.
As reported by the Irish Mirror, Carla realised in 2019 that things needed to change and this sparked her ultimately transforming her life and reaching her weight loss goals as well. She said: "I actually had a realisation in July 2019 that everything I thought about myself was a lie. I was literally driving down the motorway on my way to have a massage with my partner, and I had been doing a bit of journaling, a process called the morning pages and a couple of other things, and things had started to kind of stir within me… my doctor calls it a Damascus moment."
The 35-year-old said she had been battling with constant negative self-talk, but it quickly became clear that these thoughts were not her own. She said: "I just had this realisation that all of this negative self-talk wasn't actually my voice… This person that is speaking constantly in my head isn't actually anything to do with me. This is stigmas that I picked up from society and from people around me, and I was like, 'Huh, so who am I?'"
