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Fwordz: Featured: Body Type

Fwordz: Featured: Body Type : My crossfit coach just shared a video ( https://youtu.be/CDXxURPagpM ) from Crossfit and it couldn't have come at a better time.  Just ...

Featured: Body Type

My crossfit coach just shared a video ( https://youtu.be/CDXxURPagpM ) from Crossfit and it couldn't have come at a better time.  Just this last week I was in the Y and when I left I couldn't help but think about when I was younger I had a nickname that my dad called me, Moose .   Imagine for a minute being a young adolescent girl of 12 and younger being called Moose by your dad.  He would call me this and I internalized it and it hurt my feelings because at the age I was all I could think was my dad is calling me fat.  Now let me explain to you I wasn't fat at all but I had that athletic build, quads, calves, glutes, built like an athlete and of course at my age to me I was fat because I was "bigger" than the rest of the girls my age when in reality I was just a developed child with curves to boot!   Moose finally confronted dad about him calling me this name, this name that I carried around shamefully because I thought I wasn't good enough for my dad...