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Connie's motivational quote for today is by – Will Durant "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."  This quote hit home for me and the battle I feel I’ve had with my weight since I was a kid.    I was 5’9” in 8th grade and was taller than everyone, including the boys.  I felt like a freak of nature most days.  The worst was when we had to get measured for our height and weight during gym class. I was always athletic, so the gym was usually the highlight of the long academic day.  That is, until it was time to get on the scale in front of the entire gym class…ugh!   Most of my peers were under 5’ tall.  So when I got on the scale, and the nurse would call out our weight, it was as if the entire gym went silent, and everyone heard how much I weighed.  Can you imagine?  It was no fun and embarrassing because I was over 100 pounds while most of my classmates didn’t even come close to registering three digits.  This experience set a course of feeling insecure about myself and l