My health and fitness journey has been a long and winding one. I don’t know if it was my generation or my household, but I didn’t grow up with any optimal examples of health and wellness. In high school I was active naturally, although I always carried insecurities about my stronger and “thicker” body type and envied my slimmer schoolmates. Come college, I put on the “freshman 15” and began viewing diet and exercise as a means to slim down. …