2 . I live in Watts in South Central L. A, and I’m fat. There are many fast food stores near my home and my mom _______ buys hamburgers for dinner. I’ve tried to talk her so many times into buying something _______. But she just doesn’t have time to do it. So I had to make better _______ for myself.

To learn more, I talked to Andres Chopin, a student at Jefferson High School who is part of an after-school program where students learn to cook and they’re taught ways to eat healthily. Andres said it’s _______ to eat whole foods, like vegetables, fruit and whole grains. Processed foods don’t _______ you as many nutrients. He told me to prepare food for myself,   _______ I had never cooked before. I thought, “I may not be a good cook, but I can prevent myself from eating things that are _______ for me.”

I learned from Andres to look more _______ to food labels for ingredients (成分) that I know are bad for me. Now I know _______ about which foods I can eat more of and which I should eat less of. I’ve been eating more fruit and I’m getting better about not going into the kitchen to see what there is to eat after I’ve already eaten.

________ a habit that you’ve had since you were young is not easy. I want to lose weight in the healthy way, something I can control for the rest of my life. With time and self-control I know I can ________ it. I can take two ways looking into the mirror at myself — feeling bad about myself or encouraging myself to ________. I choose to encourage myself.

After a month I ________10 pounds. I’m not going to ________ trying to eat better. The changes I’ve made ________ me to keep on going. I can still do better.

3 . At my heaviest, I weighed 370 pounds. I had a very poor relationship with food: I used it to _______ bad feelings, to make myself feel better, and to celebrate. Worried about my health, I tried various diets but nothing _______. I came to believe that I could do nothing about my _______.

Then something enlightening happened when I was 50. That year, I attended a seminar(研讨会). One participant _______ me with her project, where she not only lost 125 pounds, but also raised $ 25,000 for homeless children. What a perfect _______ of healing oneself and healing the world! _______ by her story, I created the As We Heal, the World Heals project. My goal was to lose 150 pounds in one year and raise $50,000 _______ a campaign to end hunger.

As I began my program, I was afraid that I would _______ the same difficulties that beat me before. But there were also signs that I was on the right _______. I sent letters to everyone I knew, telling them about my project. It turned out perfect. Donations began ________ in from hundreds of people.

Of course, I also took some ________ steps to lose weight. I ________ a physician, ate healthy meals, and most importantly, exercised ________.

A year later, I ________ my goal! I feel that I’ve been given a second life to devote to something that is ________ and enormous.

4 . Being a parent is already a life-changing experience. However, this 40-year-old dad______an astonishing transformation after a hike with his kids.

Before Jeremiah Peterson looked like a supermodel, he weighed 290 pounds. He was only ________to lose weight after he went on a ________ with his family in 2017 and became aware how quickly he got ________ from the activity.

“Instead of remembering all the good ________ we had made on this trip, all I can remember is this one thing that kept playing in my head over and over again: I found myself running out of breath and having to take ________ before my 9-, 7- and 4-year-old kids,” Peterson wrote on Instagram.

The dad from Missoula, Montana then ________ himself to get into shape.

________, he started by giving up drinking and ________ a balanced diet. Every day for five months straight, he would hike for two hours and spend one more hour at the gym.

After 150 days of a strict diet and lots of ________, Peterson lost 92 pounds. Not only that, he can now run ________ up the hiking trail that once made him extremely exhausted.

Peterson now uses his story and fitness knowledge to coach and ________ almost 100,000 social media followers — but he says that his kids are the real _________for his success.

“Finding your reason is ________ if you want to achieve success in life,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “If you don’t have a strong reason behind your ________, you are less likely to get the results.”

5 . I always wanted to look like the slim girls on TV even though I knew that it was impossible. I worried about my _______ and tried every new diet I read about online. I tried low-fat, no-fat, only bananas, no bananas — I almost went bananas, too.

Then I read an article that said _______ asking “Am I fat?”, I should be asking “Am I _______?” I had no _______ a letter could make such a _______! Once I started thinking about fitness rather than weight, things began to _______. Instead of saying “I want to lose three kilos”, I would say “I want to _______ two kilometers in eight minutes” or “I want to be able to do 30 push-ups”. Rather than _______ the foods I enjoyed, I added healthy foods to my meals. I could _______ have a burger now and then, but I would ________ a salad or an apple.

Finally, I stopped ________ myself with actresses and models and ________ things that were wrong with my face or body. Instead, I made a list of the things I ________ about myself. By being ________ about myself and my body, I became both happier and ________.

6 . When school started on that warm August day, I threw myself into everything I did, including playing volleyball. I decided to become ______ ,or at the very least, skinny. I stopped eating completely. Soon I began losing weight, which thrilled me, and I even grew to love the tiredness and lightheadedness that came with my ______ diet, for those feelings meant that I was_______ .

______ the season progressed, things had become______between my head volleyball coach, Coach Smith , and me. She felt that something was wrong with my ______. She talked with me about my eating and was______ that I turned a deaf ear to her when she tried to make me eat. She tried to persuade me in a determined way and so we fought ______. Then my ______ started to affect my performance. I was so tired that practice and games were becoming a (n)______. One afternoon, with hurt in her eyes, Coach Smith asked me what I had eaten and I told her nothing yet. She looked at me,______ in her eyes, knowing she couldn’t make me stop, and walked away.

A couple of weeks later I attended a formal dinner for our volleyball team. I stood there as my coach managed to say something nice about me. I______then that I had ruined my senior year by being______, and I had probably ruined her expectations as well. So that evening I wrote her a letter ______ and thanking her.

Then one Saturday, as I was reading in the library, I felt someone _____ take my arm and say softly,“Lynn Jones, how are you doing?” I ______ and saw the familiar face. “Thanks for the letter,” she said. “It meant a lot.”

When I think of a coach, I think of someone superior to me, someone who gives ______ — not a friend. But Coach Smith is ______, and, like any other good friend, she dealt with my problem in a______ way even when I hated her for it at that time. I didn’t ______ her kindness, but she gave it anyway. I will forever be grateful for her help, and now for her friendship.

8 . At my heaviest , I weighed 370 pounds. I had a very poor relationship with food: I used it to   _____ bad feelings, to make myself feel better, and to celebrate. Worried about my health, I tried many different kinds of _____ but nothing worked. I came to believe that I could do nothing about my _________.

When I was 50, my weight problem began to affect me _______ . I didn’t want to live the rest of my life with this ________ weight any more.

That year, I _______a seminar (研讨会) where we were asked to create a project that would touch the world. A seminar leader shared her ________ story—she had not only lost 125 pounds, but also raised $25,000 for homeless children.

___ by her story, I created the As We Heal(痊愈), the World Heals __________.My goal was to lose 150 pounds in one year and raise $50,000_______a movement founded 30 years ago to end hunger. This combination of healing myself and healing the world _____   a perfect solution.

A year later, I ______ my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I’ve been given a second life to devote to something that is   _____________and enormous.