Ask A Girl: How it Feels to Be Over Weight - BodiMojo

All throughout my life ? as a young child and teenager ? I was never completely happy with the way my body looked. I was heavy?my entire childhood and all during high school. It made life hard. It wasn?t until middle school that I began to notice my weight issues because I started comparing myself to my peers.

I had bigger breasts, a curvy waist, and I began puberty when I was only 11 years old. Although I was not unhappy with my weight until high school, I still felt ?different? than all of my friends and the girls in my school. I received more attention from boys because of my early development, which is unfortunately how I chose to use my developed body as a way to feel good about myself.

While eating lots of sugary and greasy foods and never working out I also began to act in ways that slowly diminished my self-respect and the respect I received from others. I was really overweight for my height and body frame.?I felt trapped inside of a body that I resented so I acted in ways that gave me temporary contentment but long term indignity.

Eventually I started to realize that the person I was did not match up with who I wanted to be. I knew that this was not how I wanted to live my life. It was time to make a change; and I did.

My senior year of high school was when I began my journey towards a healthy, fulfilling lifestyle. My older sister, Jenna, was studying Nutrition at Boston University during this time, so she helped me get focused, motivated, and ready to change. She taught me how to eat healthier and exercise, and focus on myself and my personal aspirations. I even went to an unhealthy extreme with exercise. ?Finding a balance was hard at first. Jenna?s guidance was exactly what I needed. After I began seeing results in my body I began to feel valuable, proud, and unstoppable. I started to learn more and more about health and wellness on my own until it eventually became my life and my passion.

It has been a long, difficult struggle for me to have transformed into the person I am today. Today I am a healthy, happy, confident, 22 year-old college graduate with an ambition to inspire teens to learn how to love and appreciate themselves as individuals. I feel empowered and driven to start changing the lives of anyone who feels that who they are is not who they want to be. My experiences growing up taught me that if we are unhappy then we must change ourselves in ways that bring us confidence, inspiration, and pride in who we are. It?s the power of positive thinking. The longer we sit and think about how badly we want something the more time we waste not doing it.

Beauty starts on the inside and radiates outward as we learn to loves ourselves.

One of my favorite inspirational quotes to pass onto others is:

?I want you to embark on the truth of loving yourself
because when you love yourself and when you appreciate yourself,
you will make healthy changes in your life for healthy reasons.?

Jaime?s drive to educate youth about healthy living stems from her passion for nutrition and self-care. Recently Jaime graduated from the University of New Hampshire where she received a Bachelor?s Degree in Family Studies with a minor in Nutritional Sciences. Jaime?s personal journey has motivated her to reach out to others and promote healthy behaviors and attitudes.

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