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NAME : Angie BEFORE WEIGHT : 282 AFTER WEIGHT : (lowest) 208 POUNDS LOST : 74 WHEN DID YOU START DEVELOPING A WEIGHT PROBLEM? I’ve always been a chunky person. My idea of activity was marching band. I’ve had roller coaster rides with my weight, losing 40lbs my senior year of high school. Which I gained back throughout college. 2am pizza does not a healthy lifestyle make. Along with that, my emotional eating skyrocketed. I was always a bit of a stress eater, but I began to turn to food for sadness too. I ate my pain, basically. After college, retail jobs maintained my weight because I was active at work. Combine a job I hate with stress eating and...

NAME : Tari BEFORE WEIGHT : 210 AFTER WEIGHT : 200 POUNDS LOST : 10 WHEN DID YOU START DEVELOPING A WEIGHT PROBLEM? I have been overweight since I was a young child. By age 10 I was eating myself to nearly puking at many meals and emotionally ate when I was sad or made fun of for my weight. My mom associated beauty with thinness and deeply affected my confidence as an overweight child. HOW DID YOUR WEIGHT AFFECT ANY ASPECT(S) OF YOUR LIFE? I felt very unconfident for most of my life and my lack of self love led me to depression, abuse of drugs, alcohol and cigarettes plus toxic relationships. I hated myself but couldn’t pin point...