Throughout my adolescence and early teen years, I was overweight. Not morbidly obese, but definitely not skinny like all the kids my age. My mother insisted that I wasn't fat, I was just "built differently" than those around me. -------- That worked for a while, but young kids can be cruel, and I was teased for my appearance throughout elementary and middle school- even being coined the undeniably clever nickname "Angelard" (you can laugh, I know, it's funny) by some of my classmates. It also … [Read more...]