I was one of the lucky ones. Cholesterol was fine, blood pressure was fine, blood sugar was fine. But fine isn’t good or healthy. All were high, but I wasn’t in the danger zone. The only thing wrong with me was that I was 29 and morbidly obese. Something had to change, and as Michael Jackson said, “I’m starting with the man in the mirror.”
My family and I have always struggled with our weight for as long as I can remember. I was always the big girl to all of my friends growing up. I remember one night in Girl Scouts, someone read on a cartoon paper cup, that in order to make yourself feel skinny, sit next to someone bigger than you. It was an image of Garfield the cat next to an elephant, but my friend thought it would be funny to come and sit by me. In first grade, my nickname was Jelly Belly. I never went home and cried about it, but the teasing gave me a... more
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