Personal Narrative: Childhood Fatness

The biggest challenge I have ever had to overcome was my childhood fatness. I grew up like a normal kid, and in fact, I was skinny. As a kid, I felt in heaven watching tv and eating junk food. Doing the things I liked the most and never realizing the things it would lead up to. When I got fat I started to get bullied in school for some time and my parents and other related ones started to look at me worried about my condition , but I did not care, I was happy. There were two things that made realize about my condition: The first one was when my mother took me to the doctor and said that I was fat and if I kept going in that direction I would have health problems, but mainly that I would not grow up as much as I could. The other and most important one were when boys started to get interested in girls and vice versa: No girl would end up with a fat guy, or at least that is what I thought and kept my mind for a long time. …show more content…
From that day I decided that my condition was unacceptable and I needed to change. I went to a nutritionist and started to change my eating habits and I got involved in sports, mainly in tennis. It was not an easy battle but after two years I lost 20-30 pounds. It was amazing to see how everybody told you how much you changed, and good you looked after losing that much weight. But that was not the best part; I got fascinated with sports ,that now I train almost every day and also I now know how to keep a balanced and healthy eating plan that did to support my sports routine. This might have been one of the biggest challenges of my life but at the same time one of the best ones as it changed me