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🪫 Effort Without Improvement
Kristie De Garis writes from two decades of trying to get better — cutting foods, changing habits, tightening routines — while the body doesn't follow the expected arc. She describes the work of staying level in a body that requires constant effort just to stay the same, inside a culture t
Chronic illness, meritocracy, and the pressure to do more
Kristie De Garis writes from two decades of trying to get better — cutting foods, changing habits, tightening routines — while the body doesn't follow the expected arc. She describes the work of staying level in a body that requires constant effort just to stay the same, inside a culture that only knows how to reward visible progress. 'The absence of improvement erases my labour.'
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