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This is a picture of me in middle school.  I was 5 foot 3 inches, 186 pounds and living in what could have possibly been the best Christmas of my life, but it was probably the most miserable.  That year I got a severe case of pneumonia on Christmas eve and was actually checked into the hospital the night of Christmas day.

I had already been so unhappy with myself and my weight.  I hated the way I looked, and had been through some rough years with bullying and friends.  I didn’t know what else to do, so I continued to eat my feelings away thus spiraling down further.  

When I came out of the hospital I found out that I had lost 7 pounds.  7 whole pounds?  That was unbelievable!  And that was just being sick.  This is the moment I simultaneously bottomed out my health, and decided to turn my life around. 

I ended up losing almost 50 pounds between my 8th grade and freshman year of high school shooting up 7 to 8 inches in the process. 

8 years later I am a fitness obsessed, calorie counting, research engine, body analyzing machine that refuses to go back to how he was.  I love my life now that I have found balance in my love and control over what I eat as well as my physical output.  This entire life experience of overcoming my weight inspired me to put this blog together, for my continuing education and hopefully yours too.