Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Feeling Like a Stranger in Your Own Body? You’re Not Alone.

23 May 2025 · 1 min

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Mona Sharma describes feeling her unhealthiest while maintaining a strict fitness routine and packed schedule, arguing that relentless busyness wears the body down. She says lasting health comes from simple, consistent actions, not extreme effort, and that women are taught to equate busyness with success when they should learn self-worth instead.

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I was at my unhealthiest. I was doing all the right things. Two hours at the gym, Atkins diet, hardcore busy working out. We normalize, control chaos too. Like for me that was like, oh, I'm being productive. This is good until it's not until.
It wears on your body over time.
It's often the most simple acts repeated with consistency over time that bring the most results. Right? It's that 20% instead of the 80%. Sometimes I think that it would have been very different for both of us if growing up as much as we were taught as women that busyness productivity was success, if we were taught how to regulate our system, if in between.
Or if we were taught that we.
Were worthy.
Just being who we are on.
This planet.
I felt like my worthiness was predicated on how much I did, how I showed up for my family, how I was selfless in terms of taking care of everyone first before myself.