An Act of Self Love

Nadin Brzezinski

7 min readJan 9, 2022

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The other day I had an epiphany on Medium while having a conversation with a fellow reader. Weight loss is an act of self-love and it sticks only when your reason to lose weight…is you. Many of us engage in this journey for a myriad of reasons: Health, the upcoming wedding, the doctor telling us to lose it, an emergency room scare. The list is almost endless.

Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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