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Exercise for the “A”

From the time I was 8 years old until I was 14, I was chubby. My brother would call me “Porky.” In January 1995 I stepped on the scales, and I was very disgusted. I have tried diets in the past, which normally lasted one day because I was starving to death! I was dreading the health/PE class I had to take in high school because I was going to have to make myself run around the track every Wednesday to receive an “A.” I was an “A” student, and I was determined that no PE class was going to knock me out of that. I had also set a goal to lose weight and really do it this time.
I cut back what I was eating and got plenty of exercise, even if it meant putting my feet under the couch to do sit-ups. At times, I made my brother—the one that called me “Porky”—hold my feet for me. My parents can tell you that I did a lot of jumping rope and jumping jacks that semester. It was nice hearing the comments, “Kristi, you’re looking good!” And, “How much weight have you lost?”

By October of that same year, I dropped 52 pounds. I had accomplished what I wanted—to be skinny and to say goodbye “Porky!”

Kristi Edwards | Mt. Airy | Surry-Yadkin EMC

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