Just when you started to tire of these “10 Year Challenge” photos on social media depicting how people have aged over the past decade, a viral photo is here to save the day, proving once and for all it’s not about the number on the scale.
Eleven years ago, 30-year-old Anna Victoria looked much heavier, due to several contributor factors, which she said included too much drinking, not sleeping and eating junk food.
Want to know what’s weird? There is only a 5-pound difference between these two photos.
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Last summer, she posted a photo of her then-and-now with the caption, “I was the LAST person my friends would’ve caught in the gym or eating healthy. In fact, I hid my journey for the first YEAR because of it. ? This journey can be scary you know?”
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In another photo, also from 2015, Victoria wrote:
Although many tell me I looked fine or even “better” on the left, the fact that I looked fine was not an excuse to continue living such an unhealthy lifestyle (which was my excuse for many years). Sure, you can say I was lucky to look as I did while eating fast food 3x a day, but I didn’t FEEL good.
Personally, I was not healthy on the left, even if I looked like it. You can’t always tell someone’s health by how they look on the outside, and the only thing that matters is that you are happy and healthy.
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So if you’re lamenting your age progression during these ridiculous “10 Year Challenges,” just remember: it’s not about how you look or the number on the scale, it’s about how you feel.
