I used to be overweight and then I finally got sick of it so I began weight lifting and running. Eventually, about two months and 17 lbs. later, I finally felt a lot better about myself. I figured out that running and pushing so hard for those last reps made me feel two hundred times better than putting some fattening food into my mouth. Well, that was a year ago and coming to the point I am at now has been a heck of a journey. I had some big trouble with my best friend, I had to get a job (Culver's: the fat house of America), and eventually I started feeling depressed and stopped working out. I got addicted to food, because it was a new high, and took no work to get it. Yeah, it feels good when your eating it but all that happened to me was my wallet got more empty, and my clothes stopped fitting how they should. I was 140 lbs. I am now 185 lbs. Ouch. Well I would say it's about time to do something about it, and THAT's why I am here. It has been a long, tough struggle through high school, but I made it out alive. My life is just beginning, and I want to strat it out determined, healthy, and ready to take on the world. I will lose 50lbs. I will be who I have always wanted: a happy healthy person. Remember: it's never too late to be who you always wanted to be.

What I love the most is when your running so much faster than when you started, and it feels so damn GOOD to know you got this way yourself, on your own time, with your own will. That moment when that move you have been trying to do but just cant quite get it, for me: pushups with GREAT form, suddenly feels like something you knew you could do all along. I would come home after basketball practice and workout, in my exhaustion, and I knew no one else was doing it. Well it sure showed, in practice I could go faster and harder than anyone, in the game I was that short kid getting all the rebounds, in the MIRROR I was sayin, "Damn, I'm looking good!", and I had the confidence to wear a little track suit! I love working out because it shows you care about yourself, and empowers you inside and out.