It’s funny to consider that it was only a year ago that I was in financial ruin. No job, late on all of my bills, heck every day it seemed as if I was hiding from the repo man, or on the phone begging for an extension on some long forgotten high end clothing store credit card that I had no doubt maxed out years ago when I weighed far less and enjoyed life far more. It didn’t take long until I was pretending my sweet and swanky store credit card never even existed, throwing away any bills or urgent notices coming in from the mail, and blocking all calls coming in from out of state area codes. Truly it was clear that I had begun a vicious cycle of waddling through life in some sort of manufactured alternate reality where my finances were in “order “ and my waist line wasn’t “topping the high 40s”. But, that all changed when the opportunity of a lifetime came knocking at my door when I was at my lowest and no doubt my heaviest. I had to dig down deep but ultimately found the courage to answer, the question is….do you? KNOCK…. KNOCK…. KNOCK…