What does a girl who drinks 5.5 liters of soda a day look like
Think it’s impossible? More as possible. There is no benefit to this, of course.
“If you want to destroy your body, health and personal life, ask me how,” a 26-year-old Erica Olson could write a book with this title. By the age of 23, the girl had grown fat to almost 200 kg, and she didn’t care.
From childhood, Erica led the same lifestyle as most of her peers: she sat on social networks, went to cafes with friends, and was a fan of the musician from One Direction. She differed from her peers in only one thing — a monstrous weight.
“I used to skip breakfast and have a full time for lunch and dinner. Large whole pepperoni pizza, Big Mac with large fries, cola.
Usually I took double servings, and a glass of soda is the largest that there was. And I always ate something sweet — I didn’t consider cookies and sweets for food at all, I just ate, ”says Erika.
The largest glass of soda is not the miserable 500-600 ml that we pour. Erica walked away from the order counter with a giant coke — 1.9 liters. And yes, she drank it all. And there were at least three such glasses a day.
190 kg of weight was only part of the problem. Eating one fast food also affected the skin: acne covered Erica’s cheeks and chin, and she “curtained” her forehead with bangs. Where the acne passed, scars appeared, then again acne.
But this did not encourage Erika to take care of herself. She realized that something needed to change only when she was in a hospital bed in a pre-diabetic condition. She was then 24 years old.
“My grandmother died of complications from diabetes when I was born. My grandfather passed away from diabetes recently. And I realized that I was simply not ready to repeat their fate. Not ready to die at 24,” says the girl.
Erica first tried to go in for sports. It was not so easy: under a huge load, the joints refused to obey, the knees began to hurt. But you need to lose weight!
“For me, the story of my mother became a huge motivation. She, too, has always been very full. A few years later, she still lost 70 kg and has maintained her weight ever since. She did it, so I can do it too,” Erica continues.
But she herself could not. She had to undergo stomach surgery to cope with dozens of extra pounds. And after the operation, go on a strict diet, limiting your diet to 1800 calories per day.
“I eat pretty much the same thing every day. Very rarely I allow myself something that goes beyond my usual diet. And then I suffer from guilt, ”Eric confesses.
Now, 2.5 years after the operation, the girl weighs 67 kilos. But this is not the end of her adventures. As soon as it becomes clear at what number on the scales to stop, Erica will have an operation to remove excess skin. After all, she lost three times the weight — no wonder that the excess hung in folds.
