Pickleball saved my life

Not from literal death, but from a life where I would not have known the joys of being an athlete. Again, not a literal athlete, if that means I am training for the Olympics or I am paid to play, but athlete in my own right, from my own definition*.

I used to be 350 pounds. I have lost 200 of them- and by lost, I mean gone-gone. I used to call my body: ‘a vehicle to transport my brain’. Now, I see my brain as an…