jmmason1
Even though I am only 24 years old, I feel like I have been overweight forever. I was a skinny child until I turned 9 – I was very active, I went swimming every day, rode my bike everywhere, and took dance lessons a couple nights a week. Around this time I started noticing that I was covering up my body when I was around other kids my age. I was becoming insecure about my body and I was not even in junior high yet. 
Over the years, I remained to gain weight rapidly even though I participated in activities in high school like cross country, cheerleading, and volleyball. I just felt overweight compared to my girlfriends – even my cheerleading skirt had to be special made. I started avoided doing things like shopping with my friends because I didn’t want to humiliate myself any longer. Fast forward to now, I am a graduate student studying speech-language pathology and I graduate in May.
I am looking forward to being thinner for many reasons… so that I feel more secure when competing for interviews in the job market, so that I can look and feel beautiful when I get married
, so that I can be an active mother when I decide to have children, and so that I can feel healthy for the first time in my life. I am ready to quit being embarrassed about my body and I feel so very lucky that I have the opportunity to have this tool to help me become more confident in myself!
