A Young Man’s Story
Over the last four years I realized that my body has suffered dramatic changes, and when I say dramatic I mean awful changes. I lost a lot of weight; my current weight is 58 kilos (127 pounds) with a height of 177 centimeters (5′ 9″). I am very thin for my weight as you can already imagine, I used to have around 70 kilos (154 pounds) 4 years ago. This massive loss of weight is caused by a depression that has totally changed my life. I can say it first started with some family problems and personal problems, and as time flew by I was loosing weight everyday. This has affected my life from every point of view.
Many of my friends consider me still a child because of the way I look, many unknowns say I am no more than 19 or 20 but I will soon turn 27. My life before I started loosing weight was totally different , I can feel it , I feel very complexed because of the way I look, and there is not much I can do about it, I tried everything possible but quitting smoking, this sure keeps me 5 kilos back or so.
My girlfriend left me 2 years ago with no reason whatsoever, this has affected me the most and made me isolate from women for nearly two years. I am quite ashamed to dress off in front of a girl now, just because of the way I look. I used to have a nice body with well built muscles and I consider myself a quite pretty guy. Most of the people complain about putting on weight, this is a common thing but loosing so much weight makes you feel miserable most of the time, anxious and never. You loose your self confidence, just like it happened to me. I lost all my self confidence day by day just because of the way I look.
Two years and half years ago in June, I pulled myself together and got a real job as a bartender. I worked hard around 14 hours everyday and this increased my appetite, so I put some weight back on, around 4 kilos. This felt great, day by day my self confidence was back again, I was so happy I even quit smoking for a while and gained some more weight, I was feeling pretty normal again and was very proud of the way I looked but this did not last long. When I finished with the job I started loosing weight again and tuned back to my actual weight of 58 kg, started feeling miserable again.
I consider that it is very important to have a nice body; in order to be liked by everyone else, actually in a most recent study scientist discovered that a person tends to give more attention to what people around them think of the way they look than their personal opinion about their own bodies.
Currently I am attending a psychologist, as this has to do more with the brain than with the body. There are people than do not look well at all, but do not have a problem with it, they feel perfect “in their own skin” as one saying goes.
What I would like to change about my body is just the weight, I have a perfect healthy body, used to be quite attractive as I mentioned before. I would like to gain at least 10 more kilos this will make me feel good about myself and I would not have any more problems regarding relationship with others , especially women.
Andrew Heap from Chicago – Age 26
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