I Went On a Lifestyle Change and Here’s What Happened

Juan O. Aguilera
5 min readJul 13, 2019

How I succeeded at taking health into my own hands

Images by Pornpimon Aguilera

I’ve always thought of myself as healthy. Annual doctor visits praised me for staying in above average health as I entered mid-life. Sometimes I even strutted out the doctor’s office with Staying Alive playing in my head.

Life was good…for a while.

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Juan O. Aguilera

Photographer and writer of gastronomic travel, foodie fiction, and sometimes more.