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Bullying is common nowadays especially when they are criticizing your physical appearance. Your beauty will be judged by your shape, size, and skin by the people who are really judgementals. It is easy for us to judge someone quickly according to their appearance without considering their inner beauty or what they have been through. Though bullying has many forms, name calling to someone is considered as one. "mataba," "baboy," "buntis ka ba?", "laki mo naman," "lapad mo naman" are just some of the words you will hear by a judgemental mouth everytime they see someone who doesn't fit to their 'standards.'
Sad to say, we have this thing called, "society standard" where you will be criticize according to their standards and when you don't meet that expectation, you will be belittled by many. Toxic mentality, isn't it?
Speaking of which, break ups normally happen. Breaking up with someone is totally normal especially if you are not really meant for each other but the bottomline is, what was the reason of your break up. The common reasons are, "hindi na ako masaya," "hindi na kita mahal," "pagod na ako" but what hurts the most is that, your loved one will leave because of your PHYSICAL APPEARANCE.
This is the bitter-sweet story of Lyka who have been bullied and left by her ex-boyfriend because of her weight.
"Feeling ko po malaking impact yung weight ko, kung bakit ako iniwan. Siguro po sa sobrang taba ko na and kinakahiya niya na din po ako."
Heartbreak and bullying were the reasons why Lyka had bad eating habits.
"Siguro po yung pagkain ko sa mga fastfoods. Fried foods po, mahilig po ako sa sweets, sa taba, sa pasta, sa bread."
When she was on her highschool days, Lyka is normally a 'fatty' one and she becomes more 'bigger' during her college because her stress to go food, according to her, is fastfoods and sweets that will totally cause you to gain weight.
"Halos bago po ako pumasok sa school, kailangan po may Iced Coffee kasi puyat din po ako sa gabi. Nagtatago po ako ng chocolates everytime po na may exams po."
Because of that, her weight shoots up to 176 pounds which can be considered as 'obese' for her height of 5'0 ft. From her normal size of medium, she stepped up to large.
"Nung tumaba po ako ng gano'n, syempre naranasan ko na po ma-bully kasi lumalaki na po yung katawan ko eh."
According to her, it came to the point where buying clothes that will fit on her became a hardtime. She also had insecurities among the girls who has slim and sexy body that can wear clothes whatever they want.
September 2018, her relationship with her former boyfriend hit the rock bottom that eventually ended up to break up. Lyka had bad eating habits until one day, it comes to her senses that there's something to be changed about her and that's when Lyka started to change her eating lifestyle and began to exercise.
"Doon ko po naisip na wala naman ako pagkakaabalahan... Start ko na lang po i-focus sa sarili ko, baguhin ko na lang lahat, eating habits ko po, gano'n po, with exercise na po."
She even changed her diet, from sweets to fastfoods, she is now focusing to eat foods with very low carbohydrates, like boiled eggs. Later on, she go to the gym once a week to have some exercise causing her to finally lose weight giving her from 176 pounds, it is now cut down to 123 pounds. From 34 waistline, it is now an amazing transformation to 27 inches.
"From baboy, ang tawag na nila sa akin sa school, 'sexy.'"
From a bullied Lyka, she is now more confident with her physical appearance and body. Now, she can wear clothes whatever she desired to. It is indeed an amazing transformation for Lyka and inspiring to many that are on the same shoe. Losing weight or achieving your desired appearance is really a confidence booster especially when it makes you feel more of a person.
However, bullying should not be tolerized because we may not know what would be the impact to the person who are being bullied. Luckily, for Lyka, it became her strength and inspiration to lose weight.
On the other hand, let us appreciate all forms of beauty whether if she is too thin, too fat, black-skinned, pale-skinned or has acne and scars on her face. We are all beautiful and what really matter is that, what you really are from inside because attitude comes first before beauty.
Source: Facebook
