My grand narrative...

              What made me what I am today? What overarching experience shaped my life? This is hard to pinpoint because nothing really shapes what and who I am; it is a conglomeration of everything I have done and every person I have met. However, the one person and experience that has attributed most would have to be the gastroenterologist I saw when I was fourteen. At this time I was 210 lbs. and about 5'4" and this man told me that I was obese, my triglycerides were through the roof, and I had the cholesterol of a 50 year old man. He also told me that at this rate I was going to be morbidly obese and die from heart disease. This scared the hell out of me, and from that day forward my life was changed forever.

This is me after starting to lose weight (I'm on the left, btw). Yeah not very stylish. 

       This experience explains who I am today, what I do each day, and my mindset about people today. I have no sympathy for obese people, all it takes is hard work. After getting the news from this guy I joined another sport, gave up all soda, fast food, pizza (not for long), and pretty much all really fatty and sugary food. For the next few years of my life I did not diet, all I did was follow a food regimen and about a year and a half later I had lost 75 lbs. and my life changed. 

Here is me now in the front

     This experience gave me the opinions I have about obese people, and how I look at most people who use fad diets. I am grateful for this experience in my life, but it is not the only one that explains who I am, maybe I was just sick and tired of the bullying and decided to lose weight. Who knows...