FAQ of a Chooser

FAQ of a Chooser

      It wasn't long ago that I was shoving my face with an ungodly amount of fast food, eating my way to a better place emotionally. In fact it was up until about 2 months ago that I even knew that the answer to my problem was right in front of my face, literally. The old saying "You are what you eat" has never been so true when it came to me and what I was eating was crap.

      The most asked question I haven gotten is "What are you doing to lose this weight?" and every time I gave the same answer "I've cut out processed foods and fast foods". Lately I've come to realize that this answer was really only the tip of the ice berg of what I was doing. I am changing a life style and purging my soul of a lot of self hatred and all the bad things that come when you really don't like the person you are anymore.

      I don't know when and where I started to develop these feelings towards myself or even why but I know that I wasn't happy and they only way I felt better was having a late night cheeseburger and a large coke. Sometimes I would eat before going out to dinner just in case I didn't like what we we're having.

      Every time I hit the drive thru my wallet took at least an 10 - 15 dollar hit. You can feed a family of 4 with the amount of dollar menu items I ate in one sitting.

      Basically, in a nut shell, I woke up and was tied of feeling sorry for myself. I was tired of waking up every morning feeling shitty and depressed, feeling powerless. I was tired of accepting that I could not do anything to make my life better and I would just have to wait for karma or some other force to give me all that I wanted. I refused to play the hand I was dealt so I changed the game I was playing.

     If you have found your way to me and are looking for some motivation then here it is.

You are fucking awesome. You are beautiful. You are amazing. You are strong. Nobody has the power to tell you who and how to be. You are the driver of your own life. Today is a better day to start then tomorrow. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS. 
     This is not something that is going to happen overnight. It's going to take a while but I promise that by the end you while have gone through so much that you will never go back. I'm only at my 2 month mark and I hardly remember that guy I used to be nor do I ever want to see that asshole again. He is not welcome back in my life.

     One suggestion I do strongly recommend you do in your journey is to use this page or any other page as a support group. We are all friends in health and I monitor this site everyday and will throw the ban hammer on anybody who feels the need to belittle any actions that myself or my fellow Choosers make. This is a safe place, I promise. Please feel free to post pictures, stories, advice, questions or anything else you want to! We are all Choosers!

I am a Chooser and I choose to believe in you, but mostly I choose to believe in myself!

 - Bagel

Hello, I'm Bagel.

Bagel : An Origin Story

Welp, I've done it. I started a blog to go along with the Bagels can't be choosers Facebook page.

I think this will be a better venue for me to share my in-depth, lengthy thoughts instead of clogging up the FB page.

First and formost I would like to say thank you so much to everybody who as taken on the Chooser name as a badge of pride. I love when people come up and tell me that they are a Chooser. I started the chooser page for selfish reasons but it has grown beyond myself and I now have a platform to help guide people into the better life that they deserve! I thank you all from the bottom of my heart and I am very proud of each and everyone that has joined me on this journey.

I couldn't really think of anything to start this blog with until I realized that some people do not know who I am.  So this first blog is an introduction ( an origin story if you will) of who they hell I am and why the hell you should listen to me.

My name is Ryan Beightol and I am addicted to food. I eat my emotions and have gone through hell and back to try and change this. They call me Bagel because of my last name. It's commonly pronounced "baytall" but my family pronounces it "becktoll". When I was in Junior High a teacher called out my last name for the first time and a friend of mine yelled out "Bagel?!?" and I have been Bagel ever since.

I am 28 years old and I live by the beach in huntington beach, CA. I have an awesome job at a hotel and a great apartment but I wasn't feeling good. My Body Mass Index (BMI) was well over 50 and that put me at super Obese (currently I am at 385 pounds with a BMI of 48! putting me down to "Morbid Obese").  

I hated everything that was good for me and all I eat was fast food so I started the blog as a challenge for myself to eat foods that I claimed I didn't like. What I got was the best support group anybody could ever ask for and I feel that if I let myself down I will let everyone down and ultimately cause other people to slip as well.

So in saying this, I , Ryan "Bagel" Beightol, Make a promise to all you Choosers. I will get to my goals so you have a roadway to follow. I will never let you down or let you go. we will do this together.

Keep Making the good choices, choosers!

Bagel