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The San Francisco pig and other gems from my first Cali trip, one year later

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I caught sight of him on my way to the cash register to pay for the souvenir key chains I had brought for my family and immediately approached the shelf where he was perched with the other beanbag animals to grab and squeeze his snout with my hand.

It felt like a soft, woolly blanket against my fingertips, and I didn’t hesitate to lift him off the shelf and cradle him in my arms to bring him home with me. He was my San Francisco pig, to remind me of the fact that I had flown six hours on my own for the very first time in my life and enjoyed it.

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Hunger Pains- A look Back at my weight gain Journey

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Left: Me in 2020, over a year after my weight gain journey started. Right: Me in late 2018, right before starting my weight gain journey from scratch. ©LuzJennifer Martinez

It was March of 2019. I got up one morning and stepped on the scale I had just bought online in an effort to jump-start my new plan to get healthy again. But it wasn’t to lose weight – it was to gain as many pounds as I could so that I could live to see the next month ahead of me. I wanted to gain back everything I had lost when life decided to pull the rug out from beneath me.

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Come Sail away…to then return

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It might sound crazy because traveling is all the rage as of late, but I’ve never been an avid, enthusiastic traveler.

I’ve always seen travel as nothing more than an inconvenience due to the unanticipated stress it can cause when the main goal of it is to get away from stress and everything else in your everyday life that you need a break from.

But alas, guess who found herself extending her work trip in Fort Lauderdale, Florida last month to visit Miami on her own for two days?

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Overload

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Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash

If there is anything I’ve realized lately, it is that there is ALOT of information out there.

For one, I tend to follow motivational speakers, nutritionists, life coaches, or positive influencers (Eckart Tolle, Mel Robbins, and Yung Pueblo to name a few) on my socials and they are constantly bombarding my feed with information.

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