Cautionary tale
I've lost an entire pants size in six weeks due to sheer starvation because of my job. If it'd been done the way I'd like to have done it - had I the time - it should have taken ten weeks. I literally have no time to eat - I have to force a few minutes here and there, and eat protein bars like an 18-year-old in boot camp for fear of being discovered and chewed out for having the nerve to eat. I'm permanently jacked on metabolism boosters just to stay awake. This is why I'm having a complete physical breakdown, because there's only so long I my body can tolerate being starved for food, sleep, and things that don't cause it pain. It's kind of funny when you consider that the entire reason I went back to an industry I hate is gone anyway.
This is why I tell people that unless you're a special kind of masochistic, do not go into the beauty industry. It will ruin your health, your social life, your home life, everything. I've seen few other professions that will devastate you the way this will. I'm just in touch with the reality that things I want require sacrifice. The problem is that there's only so much sacrifice my body will support, and after years of this, it's not capable of doing it any longer.
This is why I tell people that unless you're a special kind of masochistic, do not go into the beauty industry. It will ruin your health, your social life, your home life, everything. I've seen few other professions that will devastate you the way this will. I'm just in touch with the reality that things I want require sacrifice. The problem is that there's only so much sacrifice my body will support, and after years of this, it's not capable of doing it any longer.