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and that's when I realized like
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everything I'm doing to myself is based
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on my appearance and why do people care
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what my appearances and how is that
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connected to my performance and it's
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clearly not working because the key to
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being a good athlete is consistency and
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if you keep getting injured or sick then
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you can't get consistency to make
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progress and so I took a hard look in
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the mirror and realized that this is not
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good and ended up just starting to learn
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about my female physiology for the first
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time
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ever it was around 27 28 I learned about
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my menstrual cycle and I learned about
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the fluctuations of my hormones and I
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was just like completely shocked by how
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little I knew about myself and not just
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myself as a woman but a woman athlete
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where my body is my tool and it's my
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career and no one had taught me about my
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period no one had taught me that my
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period and my menstrual cycle were two
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different things I literally thought
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they the same thing