Losing weight is difficult, and after you’ve put on extra pounds, your body will never be the same. But that doesn’t mean you don’t earn bragging rights for lowering that number on the scale. Take it from Jessica Weber, a 23-year-old in Illinois who weighed 383 pounds at her heaviest, but has dropped 198 pounds in 15 months after overhauling her diet. “I wanted to be open about it on Instagram because I wanted people to realize what obesity does,” Weber told PEOPLE. “My mom actually started crying, and told me she thought I’d die before her,” she told the website.

Source: Fox News May 04, 2017 19:18 UTC