Consistency For Confidence

NICOLE FOUND A SPORT SHE COULD STICK TO – A ND BEGA N TO SEE HER BODY IN A NEW LIGHT.

- Lisa Abdellah

THE WAKE-UP

I‘d been overweight for as long as I could remember. When I was growing up, I did very little physical activity, and I was a shy, self-conscious girl who ate food to make herself feel better. It wasn’t uncommon for me to have potatoes and rice in the same meal.

I have a fr iend who’s a stereotypical ‘fat guy’: always happy, eating, and he wears a button-down shirt pulled tightly over his beer belly. I was horrified when I found out he weighed only 2kg more than me. I had always known I was big; but the thought of looking like