<human>: I'm a 23 year old Canadian who wants to share some optimism and self appreciation with people who are fighting the fat!

I weighed 340 lbs at the end of grade 12, age 18, and now weigh 170 lbs at 23. 

The time tags in these are inaccurate. This is the before. Taken late May of 2009.

And this is the after. Taken just about 2 weeks ago. 

I just started a blog recently to give support to the people that might need it. If anyone wants to check it out it is  I've only made one post so far but I'm going to continue to update it. I'm going to go into full detail about what I did to get where I am at (

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<bot>: moved more, ate better) and about certain struggles I encountered that are probably really common (like not recognizing your own progress or self worth because of some extra pounds.)