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Personal Narrative: Tachycardia
Ever since I was young, I never struggled with weight, until I had my second child. I always weighed about 133pounds, but I reached 250 pounds. I constantly felt tired and lacked the desire and motivation to do anything with my diary life, felt like torture. Consequently, I began to suffer of tachycardia. I was in my house, when I had a drastic change in my heart beat went to fast that I felt I could not breathe. Immediately I called my mom and she took me to the hospital. The doctor told me my heart was beating too fast so I was diagnosed with a minor heart attack. In addition, when I recovered from the minor heart attack, I scheduled the appointment with cardiology specialist. After several examinations the doctor found prolapse in mitral valve. For this reason I had to prescribe a pill that apparently had to take it for life …show more content…
The first thing that I did was to put a calendar in front of the refrigerator. This would help me to remember about my diet plan day by day. Second, begins to stop consuming sugar and any food or drink that contains it. In its place I start to use Splenda, but after a month I replace it with stevia that is made from natural plant. Also stop eating, donuts, cakes and all chocolate bar as well as all kinds of drinks as soda and juices for their high sugar content. Changes my dishes, cup and glasses for smaller ones. I definitely had to reduce the amount of food I would ingest. Next leave all kinds of fried as fried eggs, fry potatoes and Mc Donald and all kinds of junk food as they were the cause of my overweight. I learned that a healthy and balanced diet could lead me to my goal of losing weight. I took up to four liters of water a day and every time I went out on the street, I carried a bottle of water with me, so I would not be tempted to drink soda, just as I would if I went to a

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