When Sanya* did something about the excess weight that had been giving her grief since she was a teenager, she thought all her problems would melt away with it...
It was when I started a desk job at 25 that my body image issues really started to skyrocket. I’d been living the part-time retail life of food court lunches, but being on my feet all day meant all that McDonald’s was getting burnt off at a regular pace. My weight didn’t fluctuate at all. That changed once I was sitting at a desk 9-5. Gradually, over three years, my size went from a Size 12 to a Size 16.
At the same time, my on/off ex broke up with me for good. I was thrown into the online dating world that had developed over the three years we were together, and had a string of three-dates-then ghost kind of guys. Work was going brilliantly.
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