Personal Narrative-The Chubby Child

Ever since I can remember as a child, I have always been the chubby kid. For some reason, I never noticed it as a child. Maybe it was the fact that I just didn’t care then, or maybe it was the excitement that I got from opening that twelve-piece nugget box that had nothing but tastiness on the inside from McDonald’s, and let’s not forget about their delicious, salty fries either. Guess what though? After a while of eating all this delicious, unhealthy food, I started to get bigger and bigger. It wasn’t until around late 2015 that I really started to notice how big I had gotten, and it started to bother me; so, I decided to make a change. That change would be to start working out at home, and to cut some things out of my diet. With this change came the thoughts of doubt, fear, and failure. I wasn’t going to let these notions frighten me though, I was determined to succeed and become the me that I wanted to be. I didn’t wait long to put my newly found epiphany to work. On January 1st, 2016, is when the new, determined me was born. In a way I guess you could say this was a New Year’s resolution for me, but not one of those resolutions that people ultimately end up failing in. I would tell myself, “No, this was going to be different.” I had no plans of slowing down, giving …show more content…
First, I needed to start eating more protein, and this seems easy enough, but think again. For my body weight I needed to eat at least 150 grams of protein a day, which is a lot of chicken. Secondly, I would have to monitor my intake of carbohydrates and fats. For instance, I couldn’t eat carbohydrates at night, but fat was okay at night combined with the protein. This turned out to be the hardest challenge for me in my journey because this part of the journey was a mental battle. “If I were to fail at anything, it would be this.” I would think to