Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been putting into my career.

The weight loss has been a secondary change to the mental changes I have made. Weight loss does not fix problems; how you view yourself does.

I started to realize that everyone goes through those doubts, and I need to try and be the best version of me I can - not only for myself but everyone around me.

I am only capable of what I allow myself to believe I can do.

The amount of time I spent on facing my negative conscious has been most of my struggle and changing my mind-set has been the biggest change in my life not my weight.

I know that I cannot control anyone else's actions but my own, and how I choose to react to situations.

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.