Some years ago, not too long, I had a lean body build and to me…looking back at my Facebook photos when I started college and other photos, I looked handsome indeed. Then, I got terribly sick, and I ended up in the hospital for some time. When I got out, I felt healthier…sure…but I started to gain weight. I started to gain weight rapidly, my face, my belly, my neck was expanding. I tried eating healthier, and running and all that, but the weight just can’t come off up to this day. I look at myself in the mirror and in my mind I feel horrible. I said to myself years ago that I would not end up fat and with a big belly like my father and my uncles, but it happened and I was going crazy. I was a handsome guy, with six packs that everyone including the college girlfriends that I hanged out with used to talk about. My ex-girlfriend who I loved very much, is now dating someone with a big belly and I at least thought the I could have a one up on him by at least having my packs, but alas…I don’t. On top of that everyone in my last year of college class and some members of my family call me “Fat Boy” and they say I look like the “Cool Aid Guy”. Yeah, I am really going through a tough time. Girls I knew are saying to me ” Ha ha, from hero to zero!”. I went crazy for awhile, looking for secret weight loss medicines, looking for pills and other things that would help me get back to where I once was, but up to today I am still looking for it. One morning, I spoke to my mother about the problem, and how depressed I was feeling, and she told me…to think about the most beautiful things that I know in life. Pearls, Jewels, Money. They are all mostly hidden, covered up and it takes a lot of work and patience for these things to be revealed. What she was trying to say is that, the most beautiful and wondrous things in this world are all hidden and lie beneath the surface. So she told me and I am telling you that it doesn’t matter so much about what you look like. You should love every and I mean every part of your body, regardless of how thin or how fat it may be, because underneath all that is true beauty. Your soul, your mind and I don’t know you personally, but I am sure you are a great person, full of potential that just wants to grow and blossom. Just love yourself enough, and you will overcome your binge addiction. Love yourself enough and you would find that treasure that is hidden like all the other treasures of this world. I hope I gave you enough inspiration, for you to stop this problem that is plaguing your life. Don’t be scared that you will end up fat, just eat right and don’t worry because by worrying you will increase the problem. No matter how you end up, that is just on the outside. Dig deep! Look closely! And you will find the treasure that lies beneath all this. Good luck!