One Step Back......

I was always a heavy kid growing up...SURPRISE! how many people who have Gastric Bypass Surgery do you think can say "Oh I was a skinny kid really" not many probably. The fact is overweight adults usually come from overweight kids and I am no exception. Did I eat poorly, was I inactive, did I suffer from emotional eating or did I have an endocrine problem? I like others fought with a combination of all of these and it would shape who I was to become and the incredible path my life would take. Kids can be cruel, I tell you this because my earliest recollection that I was fat was in elementary school. I vividly recall trying to run the relay in track and pass the baton to my teammate and being able to hear her saying to her friends "How come I always get the fat girl on my team! " do you know I actually felt sorry for her because I knew we never had a chance to win. Here I am a long way away from that 11 year old and all I wanted to do was go back in time and tell that teammate of mine how much of an impact on my life that one ignorant comment would make.