Question of the Day

Suggested by Shaker RachelB: "What's a big thing you changed your mind about, and what was the process like?"

That I deserved happiness, healthfulness, self-worth, and other good things despite being fat, after relentlessly getting messages to the contrary from basically the entire world. The process was long, difficult, painful, necessary, and ultimately valuable beyond description.

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