“I showered myself with love instead of shame”
Jul 05, 2022
5 minutes
I’D BEEN OVERWEIGHT ALL my life. And not just a little. I topped out at more than 300 pounds (about 21 stones), at which point I gave up on my endlessly failing diet struggle and stopped weighing myself. Being so overweight prevented me from living the life I wanted to live. I didn’t go out much, and I never went to a beach or place where people would wear shorts or show skin, as the stares and whispers about my appearance were too much to bear. I said “no” a lot, when I very much wanted to say “yes!”.
Fast forward to my midlife years and most things were coasting along. I had a nice marriage, a great career and a beautiful son. Yet I was still morbidly obese: that was my
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