Say Goodbye to Your Social Life If there's one thing you become when training for a bikini competition, it's a hermit. Restaurants play host to temptations, and bars teach you that soberly watching your friends get sloshed is not that much fun. So while my friends hit the Hollywood bars, I stayed home and prepped my meals for the week.
In the beginning, everyone was supportive. My friends would tell me how proud they were, and how much they admired my commitment -- especially when I started to dramatically slim down. While going out wasn't necessarily a huge part of my life before, suddenly I was much more aware of how much I was missing out on. And so were my friends. "We're so over this," a girlfriend said to me as I skipped out on yet another girl's night out. "We want fun Jess back."
Five weeks into my training, the loneliness set in. Friends no longer called and suddenly they were more annoyed by my dedication than proud. My dwindling friendships took a serious toll on my mental health, and there were a few nights I regretted ever committing to this.
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