We like to measure things in our culture. Square footage, TV screens, waistlines, time, even our own worth. Way too often, waistlines and worth get lumped together. And at the beginning of each year, we we punch that cultural reset button and say we need to change things to be better people.

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Stop. Breathe. Be proud.

I once bought some shorts that were too small for me and hung them on the wall of my room. "I'll wear these when I look good again," I said to me.

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I wore jeans to a soccer game this weekend, because I’m a Floridian who likes a good challenge. While I sat, highly aware of the UVB rays trying to cancer me up, I thought, “I have jeans on, and a hat, and this wicked-cool, purple, team shirt so the sun can’t get me.”

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