I am not going to pretty up the facts. We, as a nation, are fat. Obesity is a disease sweeping across the nation. I know this because I am fat. It is a reality that I am, unfortunately, having to face with myself. You see, when I came to South Carolina I was uprooted from my friends, family, and college up in WV. I loved the program I was in, Culinary Arts, and I loved my friends from the program...well most of them. I was engaged in a lot of activities and was never bored. When I moved down to SC I found myself without friends. The only friend I had who I could constantly chat with was my best friend Danielle. There were no activities I could participate in and I had no way of going out, since, back then I had no driver's license.

Furthermore, try babysitting two terrors who manipulated you and emotionally exhausted you. That was what I had to put up with until moving in to our house in 2005. I was never respected and thus I became depressed. So where do we turn to when we are depressed? FOOD! It is only natural. Food became my best friend because food never rejected me nor called me hurtful names or tried to manipulate me.

I feel that if I hadn't come down or had been introduced to those two boys who emotionally exhausted me then I would not have began my downward spiral. When I moved down here I was a 16...now I am a 22-24 size wearing 2x or 3x in some instances. I don't seem to have the energy to get my butt in gear to lose this weight. Though I really want to. I want to be thin. Not supermodel thin. Not wearing a 0 or a 2 thin. Just moderate, healthy weight. That is all I ask.

That is why I am going to try to find a way to get my butt in motion. Whether I have to join Weight Watchers plus go to the gym 7 days a week or walk around the subdivision every night (because it is like 92 degrees in the day). I want to be a size 14 by the time graduation rolls around and I am sure I will be that size if I can find a way to stick to a plan.

Anyway, enough of me ranting.

Blessings!

Serenity