Near far where. I'm not going to go for it. I was driving in my car today, and I was

Celine Dion, my heart would go on, came on the radio, and I was screaming it at the top of my lungs.

And I looked over to my right, and the person who was stopped at the stoplight next to me

was, it looked like they were crying.

They were laughing so hard.

And I started laughing with them because I was, I was totally going for it.

Full on, my heart will go on in, belting.

But anyways, hey everybody.

Welcome to episode 17 of the Run, Selfie Repeat podcast,

where we talk about life with the side of running. I'm your Celine Dion impersonator, Kelly Roberts. And today, today I want to talk about something that has come to my attention recently

that I actually haven't thought about in a long time,

but I want to talk about that moment when your weight becomes a part of your identity.

Because I think one of the hardest parts about, and I'll put this in air quotes, quote unquote,

growing up, one of the hardest parts about growing up is learning that we aren't defined by our past,

that our identity isn't comprised of what we've endured or experienced, that they're just

a chapter in our story, or maybe that they're a book in a giant series that is our lives.

But for me, I think because I was so insecure and uncomfortable in my own

skin, I tied feeling overweight to a piece of my identity. Like that's, I felt like it defined who

I was as a human being, which is sad and unfortunate because I spent so much time worrying

about something that shouldn't

have been an issue. When I think back, I think there were two moments that really defined

my struggle with my weight taking hold of my identity. The first one was in elementary school.

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