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Community Highlight   Week of 8/13/2009 - Featured Board Post
What It Feels Like To Truly Be Healthy  I've spent my entire
life being overweight. I've spent it dieting and failing. In
January I topped the scales at 410 pounds, and I had resigned
myself to always being fat. To always being left out. To always
being the butt of jokes. I had resigned myself to the fact that
one day my obesity was going to kill me. I was tired of my
failures.  Then I found SparkPeople, and I realized an important
thing. I wasn't going to find happiness in being thin. And, that
the best I could do for myself was to become healthy. In
achieving that goal, weight loss would be a side effect. I've
lost almost 20 pounds since then. It doesn't seem like a huge
number for 8 months, but I started small. I started with one
thing. Drinking water. Once it became habit I added another
thing. As long as it took, I stuck with it.  Today, the weight
is starting to come off faster as I h