The American Struggle

Hello all, welcome to my first official blog post! Today, I think I'm going to talk about being fat. Well...I'm actually going to talk about how I'm fat. Which is quite fat, in fact.

For the longest time (do, do do doooo), I've always been a fairly hefty kid. I haven't really been skinny since I was about eight years old. That was except for a period in junior and high school when I wrestled, and altered between thin and fat amidst the on and off seasons. Point of this story though, is that every year after wrestling ended I would get large again. So it makes sense that when high school ended and I moved on to college, the pounds packed on, but they stayed on and accrued even more because I didn't have sports to lose the weight.

Fast forward to today; I'm a senior about to graduate college. I've had four years of nothing but extreme weight gain, and I'm larger and unhealthier than I've ever been in my life. I guess you can say I'm your average American.

I'm the epitome of how the rest of the world views America, the land of the fat, lazy, and over-convenienced. I get in my big American cruise liner of an automobile and make my way down to the local Taco Bell for a mid-afternoon feasting. 

But you know what? That's the old me. The old American. Right now I'm turning a new page in my book and starting a new life - a thinner, healthier life of action. I'm struggling to become the New American. I want to show the rest of the world that I can do something and be everything I am capable of, much in the same way the people of this country want to show the world what America can be.

I'm tapping into the roots of this traditionally hard-working nation to make myself a new man with a head full of new values. I want to be the man who gets things done, not the person I used to be who would wait for life to come to me.

So this is the beginning of my journey to health. I am committed, and I'm going to do everything I can to stay motivated. And that includes this blog post. It may seem ridiculous to tie my struggle to lose weight to the struggles of this country to lose our economic and political woes. But if you really think about it, what's the difference? This country has become as bloated and immobile as I have, so it makes sense that my struggle honestly is the American struggle.

So America, take it from me: it's time to cut the fat and get healthy. Let's show the world what we can do.