The Wake-Up Call

So fast forward to summer 2008. I just finished the TD program at URI and I knew for sure that I gained some weight. All I ate really were cheeseburgers and fries for lunch and dinner and then cookies and juice and whatever I had in my dorm room. When I got home, my mom scheduled for me to get a physical. I wasn’t overly concerned with anything regarding my health. Like I knew I was overweight and I wasn’t the perfect picture of health, but no problemo (or so I thought). After the doctor ran her tests and all that blahh blah blah, she came into the room to tell me and my mom what the situation was. As she went down the list, my heart sank deeper and deeper. I honestly never felt so bad before in my life. She told me that I weighed 331 pounds. All through high school people looked at me and said I had to weigh like 250 at most. I never weighed myself so I just went along with it. But to be 80 pounds OVER that prediction?? Absolutely insane. She said that I was on the fast track to getting diabetes, high cholesterol, heart issues, etc. You name it, and I probably had it. This completely threw me off. I didn’t know where to go from there. The nutritionist came in to talk to me as well and offer some healthy eating alternatives. I could hardly pay any attention to her because I was that distraught. On the way home, it was the only time that my mother and I never talked in the car, not a single word uttered. Safe to say we were both thrown a curveball of bad news that day. I remember just running into my room, and starting digging into my stash of little debbie’s. the more bites I took, the less tasty things seemed to me. Then the tears just started falling and didn’t stop for quite some time. I kept to myself for a week or two after that visit. This story is a prime example of hitting rock bottom in order to make changes in your life regarding your health. My mom had been wanting me to lose weight for years and I didn’t wanna out the effort in. It took a doctor telling that basically if I keep going at the rate that I was, an early death pretty much inevitable. You can tell someone until you’re blue in the face to change their ways, but they need to be the one to take charge and make some changes for the better. That’s exactly what I set out to do, and what a journey it’s turned out to be.