Warning: slightly gorey; I am a healthcare student and I wanted to talk about my experience with anatomy lab. Do not read if you are squeamish.
Hello everyone! I really wanted to make a post about this because I wanted to share my experience and hope that it helps motivate some people. I have always been on the thicker side. Currently I have about 25-30 pounds I want to lose to get to a nice ~20% BF (I'm a woman). I've been kinda going back and forth on this because while my excess weight did make me feel self-conscious, I thought of it as mostly vanity weight. This was until this semester of school started for me because I started anatomy. I am a healthcare student and in my school, we do dissections on every part of the body other than the legs. Last week, we started working on the torso and have looked at the heart and stomach regions. We each have our own cadavers to dissect and have to look through our classmates' cadavers as well as our own to see all of the different variations people can have in their anatomy. I was horrified. Some of the cadavers didn't look overweight/obese, yet the sheer amount of visceral fat, damaged organs, and plaque build-up they had in their arteries made me think a lot about my own health. My group's cadaver is slightly overweight, and when I touched his aorta, I could feel a thick layer of plaque in it. I didn't even realize it was the aorta because of how hard it was; I thought it was part of the spine. I know that people constantly talk about how important weight loss is for health, and I guess this finally made me realize the full extent of its importance.
Seeing all this motivated me to make lifestyle changes. I am going to eat healthier, workout more, and work on shedding my excess weight in a sustainable, steady way. I don't know if this will motivate anyone else with their journey, but I hope it does. The things that happen in our bodies under our skin is absolutely crazy. I want to do everything I can to be healthy.
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