CrossFit - “I Feel Like I just Started My Life“

Christine Pereira was unhappy. At 270 lb., she felt trapped. Literally. “Before CrossFit, I was miserable by being in a body that I felt didn’t match my inside,“ Pereira explains. “Everything was impossible. Everything was difficult ... just every day, going up the stairs. I was truly unhappy.“ Pereira also felt helpless. She would browse magazines, thinking there was no way she could ever be as slim as the models pictured. “I didn’t think it was possible. Not at all,“ she says. “I was