Dr. Christle Guevarra
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first heard Nov 2025
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I thought I wanted to be an organic chemistry professor and so ended up getting into a bunch of different awesome graduate programs that offer that.
And so on paper it looked amazing.
And when my alma mater, San Francisco State, did an article on me about this new fellowship program that they are starting up, and they did a piece about me, all I could see, the first thing I saw was the picture, and I didn't recognize myself.
And all I could think about was how...
awful I thought I looked and how embarrassed I was to be featured on that article when they're saying all these really nice things and talking about the research that I'm doing and all I can think about is
gosh, I just want to go into crawl into a hole and like hide.
So I took a little bit of a detour, you know, in grad school.
And I knew that, you know, this was not sustainable.
By the time I got to grad school, I knew that like, yeah, what I did in undergrad, probably not the best thing for my health.
So I quit smoking cold turkey, which
which I know is not easy for a lot of people.
Yeah, and I just didn't realize it at the time.
So it took me a number of years in grad school, and then I ended up leaving to go to med school because I decided I wanted to be a physician and not an organic chemistry professor.
And so it took me a number of years to just get back on track, learn how to cook again, learn how to cook and appreciate what a vegetable is, because the taste buds are much different when you're a smoker.
And then when you quit, things become a lot more palatable in a different sort of way.
And so I had actually lost kind of, you know, losing the first, I'd say at 200, losing the first 30 to 35 pounds was always easy.
It's always sort of, you know, kind of move around, clean up your diet, you know, whatever that looks like.
It was never really a hard thing.
It's once I moved down to, you know, 165 or so, that things become like progressively more difficult, like exponentially more difficult.
And so I remember a really big transformation.
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