Personal Narrative: My Weight-Loss Journey

Until I walked onto the stage to take a bow, I didn’t realize that I just danced, acted and sang a solo. It took me a long time to get to that fifth grade Christmas play where I wasn’t shy anymore. Due to the fact that I wasn’t Darth Vader anymore, so I didn’t need a mask strapped onto my face to breathe at night. Asthma, respirators and surgeries were what my childhood consisted of and I would have time to, at most, socialize with my family. Years after my final surgery, my currently bubbly-self erupted from within and many of my friends never knew how I was before.

Sometimes I ask myself how I overcame my disease. Many people with lupus experience fatigue, memory loss, loss of appetite. Usually younger African, white, and Asian men and woman develop that disease in their teens. It all started that night when I was laying in my mom bed. At that time I felt like it was my time to leave this earth. When I turn 15 years old I saw so many changes. . I experience so many symptoms while I was in my second semester. All the symptoms that I experience were hallucinations, fever, nausea, and nose bleeds. At that time I seen myself getting really sick. I caught strep throat and it was hard to focus in school because I missed so many days.

I've experienced a lot of events which had great impact on me since I was young. Thinking of life changing events, the one I would like to share is when I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. It was a very devastating day for me. A day that changed my life. I never thought Id get through but today I can say that Diabetes has changed me for the better.

What I want them to take away from this is that losing weight is possible, you just have to be passionate and work hard for it. The rhetorical appeals I use in my Memoir about my weight loss are mainly pathos and some ethos. Being something that I experienced, it is ethos because it’s honest. I use lots of pathos because I want my audience to feel surprised from my results. I told the difference from before and after and it can shock the readers and make them feel proud more someone like me to go from such

Week two has been a bit of a rough week for my behavioral change project. I became sick and was stuck at home for three days this week. This caused me to have a bit of a relapse because when I am not feeling well I turn to things that comfort me. A big comfort for me is technology and I hate to admit it but I binge watched a lot of television this week and I used social media quite often. The worst part is that now that the binge has started I am having a difficult time stopping again. I am so stressed now because I missed a great deal of class and as a result I feel extremely far behind and anxious about if I can make it up successfully. Yet, all I want to do is watch Netflix and in all honesty that is all I have been doing this week. After the first week, I felt so strong (naively so) but now I only feel defeated by my own mind. That is a hard concept for me to grasp because how is it that something that feels so good, relaxing, and happy is so detrimental to my life in the areas of education, work, and relationships? I suppose though that part of the reason we do this project is to see what will make us relapse. For me and

I started to read in a systematic methodology to get fine grasp on the basic current interventions used. I concluded that most of the knowledge we taught wasn’t very precise. I critically analyze diet recommendations and review thousands of articles. After that I started to apply evidence based approaches on the current recommendations. I’ve developed a well-structured dietry advices and simply I succeeded. For the first time, I can sustain my weight loss. I become healthier and more energetic.

When I was 13 years old, my parents started to think about moving to United States because my dad was already working here for a company. We started all the immigration related process which took a while to end. When I was 14, one day I came back from school and my parents told me we were moving to US in 2-3 months. When I heard it first, I was happy, but later I started thinking about how I will be leaving everything behind. My family, friends and neighbors whom I have been with since I was little, I will be leaving all of them in a few months. As the date approached closer, we started to pack more and more things. There was

I knew I had to change and this time I was motivated to not fall back on old habits. I made it through the whole transtheoretical model because it is more than a year later and I have been consistently working out and eating healthy. I have had a week where I don’t work out but I haven’t quit. As of writing this, I have still maintained my goal of being

Losing weight required realistic goals. I had to learn to not think a one-time fix was all I needed to lose weight. I had to learn true patience. I ate apples and carrots for a day and I enervated myself through as many pushups and situps as I could in 1 day and never picked it up again. In hindsight, my goal shouldn’t have been to lose fat, but follow a diet and routine that I won’t get frustrated with.

This a story chronicling his journey to lose 107 pounds over 16 months and reverse type 2 diabetes. Using his knowledge on nutrition and fitness he creates his own natural protocols to successfully achieve his goals. During this process of discovery he also learns through two powerful mentors and teachers the true meaning of healing and becoming his true self. It reveals his innermost insecurities, flaws, and the masks he wore growing up to hide his

I'm going to be honest and say that I've tried basically every weight loss program available. Most of them work..for about a week then I get bored.

I remember when I started my recovery I was discharged from the detox program into a six month transitional program. Transitional living that deal with people recovering from addiction are often referred to as recovery residences. The Transitional Living Center provided me a place where I could re-establish my own self-worth. When I was at the transitional housing I felt safe from the possibility of a relapse. My recovery plan was individualized according to the determination of my needs. They taught me what my triggers were and how deal with them in positive ways. I remember when my six months were up and I was getting ready to be transferred into the supportive housing program to be integrated back into the community. Supportive housing allowed

I started to starve myself and I was working out. I did this for almost two and a half months. In March my mom and dad sat me down and told me that if I didn’t start taking care of myself better that I would have to go see a special doctor. I knew they were right and I knew that I did have to change. I had gotten myself to one hundred and twenty-seven pounds by kickboxing and starving.

Discipline and God is the bridge between goals and accomplishments. As you know America is ranked the ninth obese country in the world, and we have a percentage of 33.9% of those that are obese. To be honest, I was in that statistic, at the age of 8 years old. Some people don't think nothing of being obese at a young age, but it really puts emotional and physical wear on your body and moral. I always knew that I was chunky in the back of my head, but it really started to bother me when I started feeling out of place. From that point of feeling unsowed I knew that I had to change something big that will alter my life.

(Transition: I will cover the first step that I started to do on my weight loss journey.)