Facing Life With Obesity
When I was young, I wasnt really obese or significantly huge, but I admit that I was overweight. And we know how kids are and everybody would exaggerate on something just to have fun. Sadly enough, my schoolmates exaggerated on my extra weight until I became the butt of all jokes in my class.
In front of everyone, I was just playing it cool and making it seem that it was ok. I felt hurt every time everybody teased me, I was just good at hiding it. But deep inside, I was hurt, I was crying.
At the early cage of 10, I didnt have any fight reaction, only running away from fights. My confidence started dropping. Because everybody was teasing me, my self-esteem went lower and lower. So I never worked on my social life and started becoming a home body with my console games and PC. As part of my defense mechanism, I turned to the wonders of delicious food. I was in denial that I had extra weight, was gaining weight and was gaining it at a fast rate. My eating habits worsened and worsened.
Food can really make us feel a lot wonderful and relieve us of stress. There are foods that stimulate our brain to release endorphins and serotonins which are naturally occurring chemicals in the body responsible for making us feel good. Food like pasta, pizza, chocolates and everything that tastes good are examples of happy foods. Whenever I felt depressed and alone, I started with eating food. Food made me feel good. Being a lonely guy, I had nothing else to cheer me. What happened to me was called emotional eating.
After emotionally eating for a couple of years, the pounds started coming in. Eating became my best friend and I turned a blind eye when it came to my health. It was no longer emotional eating but it became compulsive eating. Dieting didnt work for me, it just made my life hell. I lost pounds, gained some, lost more, but gained more and the whole thing was a vicious cycle which in the end caused me to gain more weight. Weight loss pills somewhat worked, but I didnt want to take them all my life so I stopped.
The master cleanse method gave me new hopes for losing weight. It focuses more on detoxification of harmful checmicals. The best part in the program is juicing recipes.
March 11, 2012 at 4:39 pm Comments (0)