Growing up in a hispanic household I was raised around some of the most delicious food you can imagine Enchiladas, Tamales, Tortillas and lots of fried food. Growing up I really never payed much attention to it it was to delicious to resist biting into a warm sweet tamale. As i started to get older I started to notice I had a weight problem i was getting uncomfortable with myself on how i look. one time when i went to go visit my family members in colima mexico we all as a family decided to go to the river having some family time enjoying the natural fresh water of the river. As we arrived all my cousins ran towards the river taking off their shirt without any hesitation. As they ran in I looked at them realizing I wasn't going to take off
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I kept on telling them that was not it I just didn't feel like it. When really deep down inside that was the dark truth, the reason why i didn't want to take off my shirt was for the fact that i had gotten puffy nipples from eating a lot of unhealthy food that i wasn't aware of what it could do to you physically. As we got back to my grandma's house everyone had forgotten about the shirt situation but i kept thinking about it realizing I didn't want to have the abnormality of having puffy nipples i wanted to be able to take off my shirt with confident not having to worry about how someone will think of me. So the next day after we went to the river i gradually started to watch the things i was eating and drinking. In mexico the majority of people including my family love soda the way it taste and how it makes us feel. One of the most difficult things I had to overcome was drinking soda of any kind if didn't matter if it was coca cola, pepsi or squirt i love me some soda, whether it was in the morning or late in nights. sadly i would've preferred soda over water if asked by a family member. During lunch my family tended to use a lot of oil assuming the food will taste more scrumptious. Before we would put the tortillas we would always oil up the pan, so the tortilla wouldn't stick onto the pan having a crispy warm
I kept on telling them that was not it I just didn't feel like it. When really deep down inside that was the dark truth, the reason why i didn't want to take off my shirt was for the fact that i had gotten puffy nipples from eating a lot of unhealthy food that i wasn't aware of what it could do to you physically. As we got back to my grandma's house everyone had forgotten about the shirt situation but i kept thinking about it realizing I didn't want to have the abnormality of having puffy nipples i wanted to be able to take off my shirt with confident not having to worry about how someone will think of me. So the next day after we went to the river i gradually started to watch the things i was eating and drinking. In mexico the majority of people including my family love soda the way it taste and how it makes us feel. One of the most difficult things I had to overcome was drinking soda of any kind if didn't matter if it was coca cola, pepsi or squirt i love me some soda, whether it was in the morning or late in nights. sadly i would've preferred soda over water if asked by a family member. During lunch my family tended to use a lot of oil assuming the food will taste more scrumptious. Before we would put the tortillas we would always oil up the pan, so the tortilla wouldn't stick onto the pan having a crispy warm