# @rgvtaste_ on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DXXfqHlkQTV
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64381641-rgvtaste-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-04-20T20:35:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** IVANNA Mendoza | RGV Food Blogger (@rgvtaste_) — https://gondola.cc/rgvtaste_

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Becoming HER.✨
I’m my biggest project.

In 2024… I was nearly 300lbs.
But more than that… I was lost in my own mind.

Body dysmorphia at its highest. An eating disorder I’ve battled since middle school…bingeing, restricting, repeating… over and over again.

My body was tired. My hormones were tired. My PCOS was making everything worse. I was barely getting 1–2 cycles a year…sometimes going almost a full year without one.
Nothing felt right.

In 2025, I decided I had enough.

I started a GLP-1… and for the first time, I felt silence. No food noise. No constant cravings. I lost 30lbs between April and November… but more importantly, I started understanding my body.

But I knew… that a GLP-1 wasn’t my forever. Then 2026 hit…and my life flipped upside down.

I lost people I thought I’d have forever. I walked away from a nearly 10 year relationship. I went through some of the hardest months of my life…

And it forced me to realize something:

I’ve always poured so much into others… but at the end of the day, people can still walk away.

The only person who has never left me… is me.

So I made a decision, what if I poured all that love, energy, and effort… into myself?

And that’s where it’s gotten me now…❤️‍🩹

65 lbs down since I started my weigh loss journey in 2025. Changed my eating habits, prioritized my mental health, added movement that I enjoyed and didn’t view as punishment.. 

Not perfect.
Not easy.
Still healing.

My ED didn’t magically disappear. My mental health isn’t something I can ignore. But now… I face it. I acknowledge it. I choose me anyway.❤️‍🩹

Because I’ve learned… I can be happy… if I put me first.

So here I am. Still me… just evolved.

Not just talking about it anymore I’m finally walking it.

No secrets. No shortcuts. Just real love… a positive mindset…and learning to speak kindly to the person in the mirror.❤️‍🩹

Because if you’re going to admire someone…
let it be YOU. 💗

I’m so proud of myself because this has truly been something I thought I’d never be able to do, yet look where we are now… and it’s just the beginning 🥹

Here’s to more Ivanna! Te quiero 🥰

#weightloss #pcosjourney #latinablogger #pcosweightloss #mentalhealth

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