Belt Buckle Loops and a bit of my relationship with my health.
Physical health and appearance has always been a bit of an interesting area for me. As a baby, I was quite the big buy, 9 pounds and 1 ounce is what my mom always said. It was like some kind of badge of honor. A record that she probably held among her friends. As a kid, I never suffered from "baby fat." In fact, I was quite thin. I imagine it was because I was rather active as a kid. I did all of the normal kid things like afterschool sports, riding bikes, and begrudgingly eating my vegetables. In thinking about vegetables, food is kind of where all of this stems from. During elementary and parts of middle school, my lunches consisted of catered lunches and home lunches I brought to school. I was fortunate enough to have a mom and sometimes grandparents who were happy to prepare food for me to bring in when I wasn't really interested in eating what was on the menu that day. Even though this didn't necessarily result in me eating the most healthy of things, the preset ...