WELL WHAT CAN I SAY ,  EVERY SINCE I CAN REMEMBER I WAS ALWAYS THE CHUBBY LITTLE BOY WITH THE GREAT SINCE OF HUMOR AND ALOT OF CONFIDENCE, BUT THERE WERE TIMES THAT I DID SUFFER FROM  BOUTS OF INSECURITIES AND BOUTS OF BEING UNSURE OF MYSELF, MY EARLIEST MEMORY WAS GOING TO SUMMER CAMP AS A YOUNG  CHILD AND  WHEN IT WAS TIME TO GO SWIMMING AND ALL THE GUYS TOOK OFF THEIR SHIRTS I HEARD SOMEONE YELL  " HEY LOOK HE HAS  TITTIES!! ( EXCUSE THE USE OF THIS WORD IF YOU ARE OFFENDED)  SO FOR A LONG TIME AFTER THAT I WAS VERY INSECURE ABOUT TAKING OFF MY SHIRT IN PUBLIC, I WOULD ALWAYS  FIND A CONVIENENT EXCUSE TO AVOID THAT , SINCE I WAS AN ATHELETE WHEN IT CAME TIME TO PAY SHIRTS AGAINST THE SKINS I WOULD ALWAYS FAKE A COLD TO AVOID TAKING OFF MY SHIRT OR WHEN WE WOULD TAKE TRIPS TO THE BEACH I WOULD ALWAYS FIND A COOL TANK TOP TO WEAR BUT BESIDES THAT MTY SIZE NEVER CAUSED ME ANY OTHER  INSECURITIES  EXCEPT THAT FACT THAT I AM A ROLLER COASTER JUNKIE AND MANY OF THESE NEW COASTERS  HAVE WEIGHT RESTRICTIONS  BUT I STILL TAKE  MY CHANCES  WHEN I GO TO THE PARKS, ITS FUNNY BECUSE MOST PARKS HAVE A TEST CHAIR THAT  CHUBBY PEOPLE CAN SIT IN  TO AVOID BEING EMBARRASED WHEN THEY ACTUALLY WAIT IN LINE  AND THEN THEY ARE TOLD THEY ARE TOO BIG TO RIDE THE RIDE BUT I THINK IT IS EQUALLY EMBARRASING  TO SIT IN THE TEST CHAIR WITH ALL THOSE PEOPLE WATCHING YOU.


BUT I MUST SAY THAT IN MY ADULT YEARS I HAD RESIGNED MYSELF TO THE FACT  OF BEING THE " BIG MAN  OR " BIG GUY"  BECAUSE MY SIZE HAD GOTTEN ME PLACES  I HAD A GREAT HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE FOOTBALL CARREER AND I NEVER HAD TROUBLE  FINDING NICE CLOTHES TO  WEAR AND  I NEVER HAD ANY MOJOR PROBLEMS UP UNTILL A FEW YEARS AGO  AND  MOST OF MY FRIENDS ARE BIG ALSO, SO WHY I AM GOIGN TO GET THIS DONE ? WELL  IN 2004 I WAS DIAGONOSED WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES AND I AM A 3RD GENERATION DIABETIC  MY FATHERS MOTHER  WHO I NEVER MET HAD GONE BLIND AND HAD BOTH HER LEGS AMPUTATED  BY THE TIME SHE WAS  50 YEARS OLD AND SHE DIES AND IN 2004 I WATCHED MY FATHER LOSE HIS  30 YEAR BATTEL WITH THE DISEASE.  AND UP UNTIL A FEW MOTHS AGO I WAS CONTROLLING MY DIABETES WITH 3 TYPES OF MEDS DAILY  BUT THIS IS STRTING  TO WEAR ON ME, SO I  WAS READING AN ARTICLE RECENTLY  ON HOW THIS CAN  AID  WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES SO I  DID SOME RESEARCH AND NOW HERE I AM !!! I AM A LITTLE NERVOUS BUT LOKKING FORWARD TO MAKING THESE CHANGES IN MY LIFE,  AND I KNOW CHANGE DOES NOT COME EASY, I AM A FOOD NETWORK JUNKIE AND I CAN COOK MOST OF THE RECIPIES  THAT I SEE ON MY FAVORITE SHOWS THERE ( MENTAL NOTE CANCEL THAT DAMN CHANNEL!!) OH WELL I WILL UPDATE THIS FROM TIME TO TIME TO LET YOU KNOW HOW ITS GOING  BUT UNITL THEN MAY THE GRACE OF GOD BE WITH ALL OF YOU.

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