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Hi! I am your average 40-something wife and mom. I am also a high school teacher, and therefore I am choosing to keep my real name and image anonymous. I plan on being very personal and some things my students just don't need to know about me! My whole life, I have been known as "The Fat Girl." In high school, I was labeled as nice and quiet. I always figured I was too fat to be popular. (Ugh, what I wouldn't give to be "fat" now like I was in high school!) After high school, I became the nice, funny, fat girl with skinny friends. Guys always looked at them first. Every time I was crushing on a guy, guess who got them? Yup, my skinny BFF. Even when I started dating my now husband, his cousin and friends told him, "Well at least she is pretty, she can always lose the weight." Jokes on them, I GAINED 60 pounds my first year of marriage! Which brings me to my PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome) diagnosis. I have been battling it for 20 plus ye...