Welcome to Fast Food or Life. This blog is not just about fast food its about changing your life. I have had many experiences over my past 23 years that hopefully can help you out.
I guess I should start with a little background about myself. I’m Jessica D., 23 years old from a suburb of Chicago. I was a college grad of 2009, with a degree in Sports Journalism and Sports Marketing. I could go into excuses and excuses on why I was an overweight child but really that won’t give you guys any head room on how to change your life.
My biggest suggestion is to make sure that you are trying change your life for yourself. Once you get that part in your head, the rest is a piece of cake.
Over the last year and a half, I have finally realized that I needed to change my life for myself, not for my mother, my boyfriend, or my friends, JUST FOR ME. I also needed to accept that fact of what I HAD done to myself. I was the only one that had made myself into what I was. Yes, the fact that my father died was a big life changing moment and the fact that my mother worked two jobs to keep me in some of the best school districts in the state meant that there wasn’t always the healthiest food on the table. But thats life, I have no one else to blame but myself.
The day that I understood that no pills, or diets could really be a life long fix was the day I realized that I needed to figure out what that life long fix would be. Yes, diet pills and fad diets will work but as soon as you stop them they will stop working and you will be back to square one. Trust me, I've done all of the fad diets, taken a bunch of different diet pills and while they worked for a while, when they stopped working I was back to square one. I even saw a nutritionist lost a bunch of weight and when I was done I really hadn't learned much and I was back to where I started.
Right after my father passed away, I decided I was going to change my life for myself. I was going to make myself the athlete that I wanted to be and make sure that I am in as good of health as I can be but just that didn't change how I was. I needed to make a pact to myself that I wanted to do this for myself and that this wasn't just a diet this was actually life changing. Once I made that pack to myself, I joined a gym and was lucky to have a bunch of support behind me. I always had my family behind me as well as my boyfriend and friends. Everyone was happy to see that I was taking a bad situation and instead of turning to food or alcohol because of that situation I turned to changing my life. For once in my life, I was doing something for me and I was going to change myself.
I have always been a confident person and I am the first to say that you can be as happy as you make yourself if you are 100 pounds or 300 pounds. You can find someone to love and cherish you at those weights as well, but you need to love yourself first. There is no way that someone can love you if you do not love yourself. So what I do ask is that if you are trying to change yourself for someone else, it is probably not going to work. Changing your life needs to be for yourself for it to all settle in and work. You need to be able to admit to yourself what you have done, excuses are just excuses when it comes to changing your life. It is your life so take care of it how you want to.
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