Brandon Herrera

Because I was losing weight faster before I started social media.

And I know I made a lot of healthy changes from it because I got a trainer.

I started going to the gym.

I started eating more because I was starving myself for the first five months of last year.

But there was so much like for me personally, because I talked to you guys about how much I let all that impact me.

There was so much stress.

so much stress dude like I was literally like for the last six months of last year I was a freaking ball of stress I know that if I had just sat on my ass and stayed in that crazy deficit I was in I was eating like 1500 calories a day it was stupid I lost 120 pounds in the first five months of last year it was ridiculous but if I had stayed on my ass starving myself I probably would have lost more than I did

So I'm not to say that that's what people should be doing.

But I know for a fact that the stress from social media has negatively affected my journey.

It hasn't stopped it.

Like I've had a few plateaus.

I've continued moving in the right direction.

But that's the one thing like people need to weigh.

Because, you know, a lot of people who start social media, they got to ask themselves why they want to start it, right?

Or people probably should.

People need to weigh whether it's worth sharing and if they're capable of sharing in a way that they're not going to do what I did and then they don't let it impact the journey itself.

Because the journey itself and their life and their future matters more than the page in a lot of cases.

So I know that that's a bit of a hot take, but I think it's important for people to consider because I see a lot of people who will start their journey and then start posting and then they'll get some negative comments and then they'll just like,

Well, I was at a couple points last year where I didn't want to upload.

I was just so over it.