The Change For "Me"

 

Many people today are not comfortable with their body and don't know how to change it. Well, I was one of them who wasn't comfortable in their body but I changed it. I am an everyday hero because I have shown many people the true definition of changing for yourself. It all started in 9th grade when I realized I was gaining more and more weight. As I was gaining more weight my confidence was decreasing more and more. Even though I was athletic because I played tennis I was still overweight. I actually was an very dexterous tennis player. I was this quiet, shy, and non-sociable girl in my freshman, sophomore, and junior year in high school because I wasn't comfortable with my body. I was never ostentatious of my body. After 11th grade in the summer, I began to realize that I could change my body for me. Not for anyone else but for me. So, in the summer I worked my butt off. I was on the tennis courts every single day, running laps, doing push ups and sit ups. I was doing every exercise you could possibly think of. I never frittered time. When I got the opportunity to work out , I did. During this whole process I never weighed myself once because I was to ashamed of my weight. When school started back people started telling how good I look and I still didn't listen or realize if I did or did not. One day at tennis practice we were getting weighed. My coach weighed me and left the courts. When my coach came back she pulled me aside and said "Serina you know you lost 30 pounds!" and I looked at her with a confused face and said "I did?". I couldn't believe that had lost that much weight. She had compared my weight from now to the last time she weighed me. From that moment I said to myself "I did it!". My confidence increased so much and I now was this happy girl that was happy with herself inside and out. Every time I tell someone my story they say "How did you do it?" and I say "Hard work pays off and I believed in myself." I have inspired many people to get motivated and change what they don't like about their body for them. I believe you can change anything if you just believe in yourself. It was the change of my life. I believe if I didn't lose the weight I would have either gained more weight and would have been unhappy. In retrospect, I've realized I came a long way, but I did it. I am proud to self I lost weight and I did it for me and on my own.

Here is my before and after:)!