# @rgvtaste_ on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DaoBQmUtPc0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67830511-rgvtaste-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-10T20:14:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** IVANNA Mendoza | RGV Food Blogger (@rgvtaste_) — https://gondola.cc/rgvtaste_

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POV: Healing looks different than I thought it would.

If you would’ve asked 18 year old me to step into a gym, my stomach would’ve dropped.

The gym held so many bad memories for me. Panic attacks. Feeling like everyone was watching me. Hours of overworking my body because I thought I had to earn my worth. An unhealthy relationship with movement that only pushed me further away from taking care of myself.

For years, I avoided it completely.

Then Pilates reminded me that movement could be joyful.

It taught me to move because I love my body, not because I hate it.

So this year, I decided to face the last piece I hadn’t healed yet: the gym.

Do I love it? Not yet. 😂 But I no longer fear it.

Now I get to learn, laugh, struggle through every set, celebrate getting stronger, and have my best friend/trainer @thevianneylopez remind me that I belong here too.

This isn’t a fitness series.
It’s a healing series.🤍

Because becoming HER isn’t just about changing your body.
It’s about rewriting every story you once believed about yourself.

One workout.
One rep.
One healed version of me at a time. ✨🤍

#BecomingHER #riograndevalley #GymBeginner #pcosweightloss #PCOSJourney

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pcosweightloss, becomingher, pcosjourney, gymbeginner, riograndevalley

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