Victoria Song

When I started this journey, I was in the best running fitness of my life, the best cardiovascular fitness of my life.

These devices were telling me, you're seven years younger in your heart.

You're doing great, girl.

At that point, I had cut 16 minutes off of my four-mile time.

I was lifting weights.

I was gaining muscle.

I was feeling great.

I was eating healthy.

And now that I'm on these medications, which for me have come with severe side effects,

I have all these wearables telling me, Hey girl, I want you to know that your cardio fitness is below average.

Um, I want you to know that like you're not doing so hot, but my blood, my blood, my biomarkers for the first time in my last 10 years, my cholesterol is where it should be.

I reduced my liver enzymes by 65%.

Um, I lost a lot of muscle mass.

I, uh,

It's very conflictive for me because I almost wrecked my relationship with food.

And in some ways, you could say this was a resounding success and that I've made a lot of progress with my metabolism.

I've lost, at this point, maybe 26 pounds.

in a very, very short amount of time, I want to say.

And I don't recommend that, actually.

I've had so many side effects.