Going to the gym gives me so much more than the physique I want, even if body dysmorphia lingers | Bertin Huynh

I feel more focused and energetic than ever before. But as I have changed, so has my algorithm

For almost my entire life I hated how I looked.

I was by no means unhealthy but a youth spent playing video games and eating heaping mounds of white rice meant I was far from the models, superheroes and movie stars I looked up to.

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