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NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE ✨🫶🏻 After I broke my ankle, my doctors told me I couldn’t do gymnastics anymore, my heart was shattered. Gymnastics was my identity, my purpose, my reason, my why. At 15 years old, having the biggest part of your identity taken away from you is overwhelming, and unbelievably painful. I was truly lost after losing gymnastics. As a gymnast, we burn a lot of calories because of the intensity of training. I grew up never having to worry about what I was eating. Once gymnastics was gone, my body inevitably started to change. 15 year old joy was freaking out, and of course took to the internet to “fix” the changes my body was making. I started running every day, counting my calories and eating way too little to sustain my 115lbs body. I became obsessed with the number on the scale. It was the only thing I felt like I could control in my life. I remember sitting on the floor, calling my mom balling my eyes out, not even being able to stand up because if I did I was ...

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