“I lost weight once before. It cost me my hair, my skin, my mind.”
"I lost weight once before. It cost me my hair, my skin, my mind."
I was always the girl who struggled with her weight. For as long as I can remember, it was just... there. Something I fought with.
The first time I actually lost weight, it was for my wedding. I stopped eating, barely trained, and it worked — fast. The kind of change people stop you to comment on. I thought I'd finally cracked it.
But my hair started falling out. My skin didn't look like mine anymore. I was exhausted all the time, irritated at everyone, running on nothing. I remember standing in my wedding gown, thinner than I'd ever been in my life, and feeling worse than before I started. That was the moment I realized something was very wrong with how I'd done this.
So when I started working with Yuliia , I was honest about what I wanted — I cared about the food part more. That felt controllable, safe. Training, and especially lifting, I wanted no part of. I kept saying I didn't want to get bulky.
She didn't push me into a gym routine I wasn't ready for. We started with cardio, resistance bands, a little bit of dumbbells worked in slowly. She kept telling me strength training was what would actually change my shape and speed things up, not just cardio alone. It took me a long time to believe her.
On the food side, there was no counting, no deficit, no crash before an event. Just small, slow changes. I got curious about cooking, started following healthy recipes, found friends who lived this lifestyle. Once I was around people like that, it stopped feeling like effort. It just became how I lived.
You can see the difference in my photos now. But honestly, that's not even the part I'm proudest of. What actually changed is that I'm not afraid of food anymore, and I'm not afraid of the gym. Cardio, resistance training and lifting are just part of my week now, not a program I'm following.
I'm not that girl starving herself before her wedding day anymore. I'm not chasing a number on a scale. I know how to do this now, for good.
Victoria M.