Personal Narrative: Struggling With Weight

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Since I was a little kid I had trouble with obesity, and controlling it. I wasn’t super active or athletic, except for in the summer when I swam for my summer league swim team, I didn’t like fruit or vegetables all that much, and I loved to eat junk food. And with my family, I didn’t feel like change was necessary in order to achieve success in life, so I didn’t really try to be physically fit,

I know I 'm not alone when I say that weight loss is the hardest thing I 've ever done or tried to do. Maybe it 's presumptuous to think anyone would want to hear my story, but here goes: I started out a skinny little runt with chronic asthma. Back in the 50 's the way they treated asthma was by treating the symptoms. No one had come up with a way to prevent an attack. I got most of my attacks along with a cold or the flu. My family doctor back then convinced my mother that if I weighed more I 'd be healthier and able to stave off these colds and wouldn 't have as much trouble with my asthma. Back then we didn 't questions doctors so my mother started a campaign to "fatten" me up. It worked too well. I don 't blame her or my doctor since that was the thinking at the time and

I have come to the conclusion I do not like where I am in life anymore. I believe it is time to jump down the rabbit hole. For most my life I have been coping with depression and anxiety. Based on my struggles I consider depression and anxiety to be the most difficult diagnosed mental disorders to combat against. I’ve been working through my depression since my senior year of high school. To be frank, when I first started college in the summer of 2015 I was so mentally exhausted to the point where I did not want to leave my bed in the mornings. I was numb to all excluding a constant feeling of despondency. My family is always fighting with each other, to the point of willingly putting down each other to make themselves feel better.

Are you frustrated with your weight, and can’t seem to lose much, no matter what you do? Have you tried diet after diet and failed? Have you almost given up hope of ever losing a significant amount of weight?

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 come from a family that is not very active and obesity runs in my family with my parents and grandparents, from a young age I was told to make sure I lived my life well so that I didn’t have to endure the struggle that my parents and grandparents do with weight. I was an active child outside, but I was never involved in sports. In fifth grade I joined a YMCA volleyball team because I was interested in volleyball and I had peers that played volleyball. I continued to play in sixth grade too for my West Orient Middle School team, we got first place overall that year; but then I took a break and started track in eighth grade.

Weight loss is a personal journey that I have decided to take, I have recently consulted with my doctor and requested medication, however my doctor did not agree to prescribe me medication due to the fact my weight gain currently does not have any health risks involved. All of my tests results came back normal, so he suggested I change the way I eat and start exercising more. My weight is constricting me from playing with my very active 3 year old, and it's starting to depress

It was the beginning of senior year. I had been taking weight lifting class for about six weeks at this point, and I found it pretty enjoyable. I was growing steadily both physically and mentally in the weight program. I was also gaining more confidence, and I stopped relying on my peers to tell me what to do on each machine and lift. I even started setting up the weights so me and my partner, Dakota Rogers, could do the lifts more rapidly.

Unfortunately, obesity has become somewhat of a lifestyle disease in the past few decades. This means that people tend to lead dangerous and/or dismissive lifestyles that lead to high weight gain. On top of this stress, it’s not a secret that losing said weight is a long and strenuous task for most people. Most people simply don’t have the time and energy to spend hours at the gym several times a week, so they fail to shed those pounds.

While growing up I remember being surrounded by people who were constantly trying to lose weight but continuously unsuccessful due to multiple factors involved in their lives. However possibly being a victim of thyroid disease was rarely the blame as I listen to their discussions. Instead they were very quick to relate the ineffectiveness on poor dieting habits, or periodically going off track, or lack or exercise. Initially probably mostly everyone would love to have the trait that enables one to eat as much as they please but have a metabolism so speedy that it burns calories, breaks down, and leaves them as slim as an individual who consumes a reasonable amount of calories. Unfortunately that’s not the case with everyone. Some experience

There isn’t just one person that is always here for me,the are many people but the people i can most rely are the people i sit by at lunch everyday ; Douglas, Chris, India, Kaylee, and Brooke.These people have helped me throughout the whole year especially last night; My medicine limits my appetite and i hate it because of this, but it helps me so much with focusing on school. In the past my medicine had limited my appetite so much that i only weighed around 70 or 80 pounds and my goal that i set for me was to be at least over 100 pounds.For the past few days it limited to where i didn't eat breakfast or lunch and usually around 8:00 pm it wears off.But last night i keep remembering if i didn't eat then i might die and we have plenty of food

For the second quarter, the hardest thing for me personally was the fact that I was moved to a completely different group. A group with which I had no prior experience working with or any knowledge about their thought process and found myself scrambling to get all of the information while trying to make edits on all the different parts to "pull my own weight." I don't think I ever fully overcame this and it can be seen through the quality of my work since I focused more on getting it done rather than making it

Recently, I've been to consort with a dietician and after the first appointment, not much changed since the first time seeing her was in a class discussing what to eat at each meal, as part of a healthy plate. As a result, when I went back for my follow-up a month later, I'd lost 1 lb. Woo hoo, right? Yeah, I wasn't extremely impressed either, but due to the lack of weight loss it did make establishing the next step possible, which is: calorie counting. (Gasp :o) At this point, I usually would've jumped ship since I love food so much you don't even understand. (Or maybe you do if you're reading this?) Understandably, I felt devastated..at first, however, we kept talking and eventually she made it sound doable, so I agreed to give it a shot. Although that was nearly a week ago, I'm still not where I'm supposed to be, however I'm closer than I was when I started. No doubt, my biggest problem is portion size, I've been cutting back slowly and as a result, at this point, I'm down to eating nearly half of what I used to eat. In the past week, my scale has gone down 6 lbs and I'm absolutely amazed, I've actually lost weight for the first time in my

In the United States there is an increasing number of citizens with growing numbers on the scale. I was in middle school when my weight transformed from fluctuating a little too high, to consistently raising without pause. I was diagnosed with a disorder at the age of twelve that kept my body from being able to clot my blood. Even the smallest injuries became causes of great concern. Before the diagnosis I had a hateful relationship with exercise due to my severe asthma. Yet because of my disorder I wasn 't able to participate in gym class throughout middle and high school, and that was the beginning of my journey as my weight spiraled out of control.