It's time for the Butterfly to emerge courtesy of Emerging Hopes......
I have never ever been shy about my struggles with my weight. In junior high, I was a women's size 14 and cannot ever remember being "small". I was athletic, I played softball and ran track; but I was always "big". I developed and blossomed very quickly and was always self conscious of my size. I used humor and being very friendly to draw attention away from the way that I felt about myself. I wasn't able to wear the cute clothes that my friends were, but I made my own style that I was comfortable with. As I got older, the weight started to creep up, but not so quickly that I took a huge notice. I knew that I was overweight, and things started to fit worse, so I moved up a size, then another, and then another. But I was eating the same amounts that I was before and still "felt" good. I didn't have high blood pressure or diabetes. I didn't have joint pain. So I called myself "healthy" fat. When my then husband walke