hi i’m teresa and i’m 18 years old and i’ve always struggled with my weight ever since i was around 8 years old, one time when i was 10 i was on the beach with my cousins and their friends and one of the boys came up to me and told me i was fat, thank god my self esteem was pretty good as a child so it really didn’t effect me and i kind of just brushed him off. Then when i was 12 i had gained a lot of weight and was borderline diabetic and my doctor told me that i needed to lose weight because it wasn’t healthy and i was going to develop diabetes if i didn’t. So i did what he said and i lost around 30 pounds and my blood sugar levels went down. Then when i entered high school my weight pretty much stayed at a normal level but when i was 14 i went into a depression that lasted a little over 2 years, i was cutting myself, i attempted suicide, i was admitted to a hospital, i thought i was the ugliest creature to walk the earth and i didn’t really care about life anymore or anything that happened to me so i started to gain weight and by the time i was 17 i had reached 200 pounds. The summer of 2010 i realized i couldn’t go on living my life like that anymore so i made it my goal to lose weight, keep it off and feel amazing both physically and mentally. It wasn’t easy and i wasn’t always healthy about it, there was days i would starve myself, binge and purge and just want to give up until i realized i needed to do this healthy. So i really committed myself to going to the gym any spare time i had and eating all the right foods and well here i am 65 pounds lighter and finally enjoying my life. I’m still determined to lose another 20 pounds and be in the best shape i’ve ever been in and be able to say i lost 85 pounds! i’m also an aspiring dietician