I kept telling myself I’d gained a little weight over the past couple years… You know how it goes... Your jeans get tighter, you start strategically wearing black shirts, you avoid certain angles in photos, but in your head it’s still somehow not that bad. I convinced myself it was mostly bad lighting, bad posture, or the fact that apparently nobody around me knows how to hold a phone correctly when taking pictures Then reality hit me at the mall last weekend I walked past one of those huge mirrors and saw someone overweight and exhausted-looking in the reflection and my first thought was literally, damn, who is that?… And then two seconds later my brain caught up and realized I was looking at myself. That moment humbled me so fast I almost wanted to laugh… Once I stopped lying to myself, I realized there had been signs for a while. I avoid group photos now. I crop pictures and volunteer to take photos so I don’t have to be in them.…