By way of example, in October 2007 I dislocated my shoulder in a Muay Thai fight. I had surgery not long after, and for a while it was all downhill for my health. My girlfriend at the time spoiled me with her new cooking skills, and I ate A LOT without exercising any of it off. My routine was disrupted and since I couldn’t work out as normal, I spent all my time on social activities instead. I quickly got comfortable in a new pattern of not exercising and eating poorly. Before I knew it, my mind and body began to change. I no longer felt confident, I felt sluggish, unhappy, and just didn’t feel like myself anymore. The stress of feeling this way led me into a space where I became conscious of doing my own meal prep again, resumed exercising, got into MMA training a number of times a week, and so on. But these weren’t all healthy changes - I also began to obsess about being as ripped and muscular as I could. Around this time my struggles with body dysmorphia also became quite pronounced, and I saw my body quite differently to what other people saw or what photographs showed. This has been an ongoing struggle.