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My parents divorced when I was 2 years old, but it did not affect me until I was about 5. That was when I started to realize what was going on around. Why daddy said mean things about mommy and tried to one up her with buying me toys. Being caught in the middle of a custody battle is a hard emotional issue. Being caught in it for 12 years is even harder. I did not want to pick sides, rat one parent out or make one or both of them unhappy, so I ate my feelings.

Food made life less painful. Chocolate ice cream soothed the days stress. The child therapists would give me cookies, it lessened the pain of talking about my fears and worries... food just made it less painful.

I started to get chubby in my face, then my middle, then my thighs, I was about 8 when I got my first stretch marks. But having been an overweight kid, none of my peers mocked or made fun of me. The person who pointed out this flaw was my father.

For most of my life, he criticized me, telling me I was fat, gross, and even said no guy would want me ever because no guy wants the fat girl. This went on for years until I had enough.

I want to be healthy, I want to be happy for me. Health starts with the mentality. Once I cleared up these words from my head, I realized what I needed and wanted to do for myself.

A friend of mine was telling me about P90X, having gone through it himself, I was interested. Then I proceeded to google information every night for a month on this rumoured miracle, P90X. After finding not so much as a hair of complaint, I took the leap.

Here I am now, ready to push myself, become happy, healthy and let the past be the past and move on to my future.