I have been overweight my entire life, except for a two-year stint in the mid-90s. My doctor put me on cholesterol meds when I turned 30. I said the heck with the statins and decided to start eating right and working out.

It's a good feeling when you know you're making progress. It's the one area in my life that I have complete control over. I enter my temple and cause changes that back the society's norms and peoples expectations of me. I forge a new me, tempered with fire and steel. I rise from the ashes....