Personal Narrative: Changing My Body

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Every people have their own moments that they change the surface of their body based on their preference, events, religion, or family. I also have my own moment that I have altered the surface of my body for better life, actually for revenge. Until I became the senior in high school, I didn’t put my much effort to change my body because I was a kind of lazy person, and I didn’t care for my appearance at all. However, there was an opportunity why I decided to change my surfaces. Very fortunately, this opportunity could change my whole life, and even it still has a good implication for me to care myself.
During the high school year, I had a one girl whom I really loved her so much before I tried to ask her out for the senior prom. When I first
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Whenever I woke up at morning, I ran two miles, and did one hundred push-ups and one hundred sit-ups. At every evening, I ran two miles, and did jump rope and weight training such as bench press, chest fly, pull-up, and using dumbbells. Honestly, at the first time when I started to exercise, I was really hard to work out regularly and drag myself out because I didn’t work out in so long time. However, whenever I thought that I wanted to give up losing weight, I thought about her and what she did to me, and I honed the sword of vengeance for future. This attitude of mind could help me to go one step further. Not only exercising, but also eating less was actually tough one for me to keep. As I mentioned, I didn’t eat dinner for five month, so whenever I felt I’m dying of hunger, I just ate only one tomato and one sweet potato to satisfy my hunger just little bit. Two months after I started to exercise, I got used to work out routinely and eat less. Since my stomach became smaller, it prevented me from over-eating by making me feel full after eating only a few bites. After five months that I began to work out, I lost my weight from 187 pounds to 149 pounds. Losing weight gave me the new life. I was so surprised that I could wear any clothes what I wanted, and when I tried to wear clothes, all the clothes fit me very well. Since I gained confidence after losing my weight, I started to take a keen and active interest in my appearance and fashion. I went to the hair shop, and got a haircut, dying and perm. I went to the shopping mall, and bought some clothes and shoes that made me stylish. After I changed whole things, my friends were very surprised by my appearance, and especially the girl who ditched me was astonished. As soon as I changed my style, she came to me and said, “You look so different. Why don’t we hang out together at tonight just like

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