I had brain surgery in February my freshman year of college, brain malformation caused me to lose all use of fine motor skills. Couldn’t hold a pen, open a bottle of water, hell I couldn’t even open a bag of chips.
I spent two weeks in the hospital after the surgery, I dropped all the way down to 168lbs. 6’1 and 168lbs might as well be a skeleton.
I missed a month of school, and was considering dropping the semester and moving home. However that would mean a loss of an academic scholarship. I had partied too hard first semester and was already on academic probation.
I had to make up like 7 tests (I was taking 20hours of classes) from the month I missed Chemistry, biology, etc.
I decided I was going to finish the semester with a 4.0. And I decided the only way to do this was to fully embrace the discipline equals freedom mindset. I had to same schedule 5 days a week the only difference was I didn’t work on weekends. Wake up at 4:00am. Study for an hour. Eat. Workout. Eat. Class. Eat. Work. Eat. Study. Eat. Study. Sleep. Repeat.
Going down to 168lbs I gained a lot back quickly bc part of it was just atrophy from the hospital and not being able to do much while in PT.
I finished that semester with a 4.0, my personal record was taking 2 chemistry tests and genetics test, and a British lit test all in one day.
I finished the calendar year off at 190 lbs, and
Deadlifted 385lbs. Which may not seem like huge numbers… but remember in February I couldn’t hold a pencil. In December I picked
Up 385 off the floor and had brain surgery in between!
Did it all natty! Those were the days of cafeteria all you can eat meal plans. They lost money on me that year.
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