Last year I read an article by the New York Times about former Biggest Loser contestants who gained back most, if not all of the weight they had lost on the popular show. The article paints a pretty dismal picture for those of us who want to lose weight and keep it off. To me, the upshot of the article is that overweight people will always gain it back on account of their defective metabolisms. That conclusion is unacceptable to me, however. And I have my work cut out for me as a result. At my heaviest I ballooned to 212 pounds. I had gone through some very traumatic times and I dealt with it by eating. I didn't think I deserved the good things I used to have. Not even running. I didn't even think I deserved to run another marathon. It wasn't until I began the process of truly forgiving myself that I was able to believe I deserved those good things again, and in turn begin to lose weight. Losing weight was ...