A woman has shared how she achieved a massive 13 stone weight loss after years of struggling with her size and relationship with food. Carla Piera FitzGerald said she realized in 2019 that things needed to change and so decided to embark on a journey of self-reflection, which would ultimately lead to her transforming her life and reaching her weight loss goals.
The Dublin woman told the Irish Mirror: "I actually had a realization in July 2019 that everything I thought about myself was a lie. I was literally driving down the N7 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 after time it 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?'"
