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Americans are the most unhealthy people in the world, and I was just another one to add to the statistics. I had been overweight since I was able to eat solid foods. I was never limited to what I could eat, or could not eat nor was I limited to how much I could eat. As the years progressed I continued to get bigger and bigger. All throughout my childhood and adolescents I was depressed and experienced emotional break downs because I was physically obese. I knew I had to make a change. While I was attending elementary school, I was the largest kid not only in my class, but in the entire school. I was ridiculed, and mocked everyday! I always came home and cried, but felt much better as soon as I ate my usual after school snack, which consisted of: two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, four of my favorite Little Debbie snacks, and ice cream or a bag of chips, sometimes both. Along with that I would also have a couple of sodas to drink. Little did I know that by engorging all of that food, I was harming myself, although I felt relief. According to Dr. Michael D. Meyers M.D., “the urge to eat in response to emotional distress is…a psychological pattern or habit ingrained in childhood.” By the time I got to middle school, I was five-foot-seven and one-hundred and eighty pounds. (When I entered middle school, I was only 12.) My parents thought that by the end of middle school, I would have slimmed down to a normal size as I grew taller.
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