The Exercise Effect

Letter to the Editor

HCS Early College High School

2050 Hwy. 501 E. Conway, SC 29526

P.O. Box 261966 Conway, SC 29528-6066

(843) 349-3131

colierogers10@gmail.com

September 19, 2013

The Sun News,
Letter to the Editor,
P.O. Box 406,
Myrtle Beach, SC 29578

Dear Editor in Chief,

My name is Colie Rogers and I am a sophomore at Early College. I would like to inform everyone about my research topic. I think obese people should go out and exercise instead of spending money on a Gastric Bypass. I believe that they would feel much better after exercising and working the fat off of their body, than just lying on a bed and getting other people to do what they could be doing themselves. On the opposing side you have people who are just too lazy and do not care what people think about them, so they would much rather take the easy way out. After all, why would you want to take the easy way out when in the end you can look back and say “I worked my butt of to look like this and I am proud of myself!”

                                                                                                            Sincerely,

                                                                                                            Colie Rogers  

Narrative Poem

Obese?

Yeah that’s what they call it.

A 400 pound kid without the help of a soul.

No one knows what made him this way, but this is the way they all thought about it.

His brother pounds him with hate, making him feel like losing his weight will never be a goal.

He tries and tries to think of a way

Just so he could finally lose this weight.

Days go by with more and more irate,

But one day he knows he will prove them wrong

By taking this weight-off by working all summer long.

Tick-tock tick-tock, there goes the knock.

At the door awaits the swole trainer ready to take that weight off like a hog.

First week gone and the trainer has him worked like a mule.

The closing of summer approaches and a new lifestyle

Is about to be full. With his brother seeing improvements

He starts to worry 

Because he’s in no hurry

To stop picking on his brother.

He thinks and thinks about what to do

But with no worry in the world he keeps on doing, no matter how bad the duel.

With weight losing  

And his muscle improving,

He knocks off the pounds of fat, knowing he is not losing.

Last day of summer and he’s looking at the scale

And sees that he did not fail.

Looking back at it he’s much happier he chose exercising instead of the costly bypass.

Oh, his name

As spoken with no shame,

Henry the Last.