Enough for You

Chapter 1

Authors Note: Thank you so much for reading my story. This is my first story ever...so please be gentle😬😬! I don't know how often I will update the story so you guys will have to bear with me. I am starting grad school in August, and the chapters will slow down by then if I haven't finished the book yet! But, I will try my best to be done by July!!

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7 a.m.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

Dang, it's time to get up already?

The alarm on my iPhone screeches out, and I feel like I just went to sleep. I sit up in my bed and look around my tiny studio apartment. The sun is peeking through the blinds, and that tells me I am already behind schedule for the day. I get up and head to the bathroom to get my day rolling. I take a shower with my favorite apple body wash, brush my teeth, and walk to the kitchen in my towel to turn on the Keurig for my daily morning cup of coffee.

I stare at the coffee cup and think, I'm tired already, and my day has just begun.

I start pulling stuff out of the fridge and cabinets to make a smoothie for this new diet I am trying out. I place everything into the blender from the recipe that I got and put the settings on High. I turn the blender off after a minute, and I pour the drink into the cup. I look down into the cup of green slosh and wonder, Is this really even helping me lose weight? I look at the cup with disgust. I can't believe people drink this on a regular basis. In my other hand, I pick up my phone to look at the recipe again. "It says one cup of oats, walnuts, frozen blackberries, and spinach." Okay, it doesn't look as vibrant as the mix in the picture. A little inspiration is what I need to do this. I scroll through the "inspiration pics" I screenshotted from Instagram. I want to look like the models that post for all of these fashion companies, but it's so hard to do that when you just love chicken strips and fries. A girl's gotta eat!

Ugh.

I stand at 5'4", and I have weighed 205 pounds since high school. I've tried every weight loss method you can think of. Nothing seems to stick. So, it's been three weeks trying to do this "THE RIGHT WAY", and this shit sucks ass.

The best thing I have going for me is my double D's and my big round butt.

Okay, let's do THIS!! I pick the drink up from the countertop and slurp it up as fast as I can. Omg, this shit is nasty. I'm definitely going to have to try something else because I can't imagine having to drink this sludge every day.

If you haven't guessed yet, I am not the type of chick that prefers a salad over a steak dinner. I have been this way since I was little and changing my ways after all of this time is hard as fuck. I started in medical school in 2014, and my diet has been jacked up since. I'm in my second year of residency, and now, I have even less time than I did before. With these 30-hour shifts, it seems like nothing is going to change anytime soon.

I hear my phone ringing from where I placed it on the countertop and I quickly reach over to grab it. I abruptly answer without looking at the caller ID. "Hello?"

"Dr. Kins, this is Jennie. We have a patient that was just admitted to the unit. She is a 6-year-old girl who presented with a continuous cough that has been going on for the last 2 weeks. Sometimes her coughing fits becomes so violent that she throws up. We need you to come in," says the nurse on call.

I'm surprised I didn't get call earlier this morning but thank God for small miracles.

"Alright, I'm on my way," I tiredly say into the phone. A doctor's work is never done. I'm pediatrician at a children's hospital in Brooklyn, and I love every minute of it. But, I can't lie and say that I don't get tired of the 60-80-hour work weeks.