Date: 2026-01-13 · basis: publication date recorded in the magazine inventory
@MidyReyes
Written under the handle @MidyReyes (the note calls her MidyReyes), the piece recounts a fitness path from the 'Abs and Buns of Steel' tapes and an Atkins-diet summer coaching her sister through 80 pounds of weight loss, through college, three pregnancies and weight training in the best shape of her life. She argues the greatest benefit of fitness is brain health — memory, mood, focus and reduced anxiety — rather than physique, and that no pill delivers those. In her 40s, starting over with zero dollars after being scammed in the Bitcoin space, she went down the rabbit hole and credits her conviction to the Stackchain community.
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Stopping is the worst thing you can do.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/from-struggles-to-strength-my-health-fitness-story/
I got scammed in the Bitcoin space, which sparked my curiosity about what this Bitcoin thing was all about.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/from-struggles-to-strength-my-health-fitness-story/
I achieved the best shape of my life and felt strong, confident, and vibrant.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/from-struggles-to-strength-my-health-fitness-story/
Handle-signed fitness memoir from 1980s workout tapes to finding Bitcoin after being scammed.
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Stackchain Magazine article, catalogue item 70, category health-fitness. Summarised by the archive from the published piece; quotes below are verbatim excerpts. Original: https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/from-struggles-to-strength-my-health-fitness-story/