The second told me that she had struggled with her weight for twenty-five years. She said she was an overweight child and didn’t get into shape until she turned thirty. When I asked her how she felt when she thought back to her life when she was overweight, she said, “It’s just part of who I am. I got married and had my children during that period of time, I lost my mom during my twenties—just like everyone else I had good times and bad times.”
