Born the lightest baby but grew up to be the largest in the family. Growing up I was the chubby kid . We grew up with three meals a day with snacks which consisted of biscuits, lollies, and ice cream, the normal confectionary that time. As a child I have had issue with my body due to remarks from others which stuck in my mind as a kid that made me feel more insecure about my built. As a kid it was hard to hear negative comments about personal appearance coming from people. And reality does hurt your feelings

As time went on I would watch the scales go up and down. Travelling to see relatives, I would try to lose some weight but it always come back on when returning from overseas and some more, the plane table would never sit flat it was a mission trying to eat the food off the tray. I can remember one time we flew to Christchurch and boarding the plane I split my long shorts as they were 6xl they caught on a arm of the seat.

Buying clothes would always put me on a low especially seeing my size going from 5 and 6xl, that would always motivate me to start losing again. The things that were holding back my body from losing weight were the snacks. The 4 slices of toasts with cheese and jam toppings lunches being brought from the bakery every work day. The sugar filled smoothies, the vanilla slices, the fried food and the evening meal plus pudding, yes you guessed it ice cream and fruit juice lots of that and fizzy drink. When it came to Friday and Saturday nights takeaways even Sunday’s with that added sugary drinks milkshakes were a favorite. I would finish band practice and drink a large chocolate shake at 9pm so the body was processing that sugar late into the night.

Suffering from severe gout attacks I was put on medication to control it. I would only have to look at a slice of brownie and get a gout attack. I also have high blood pressure once again being controlled by medication which I hopefully can come off one day in the future.

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