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Hannah Jenkins says that she was never bullied for her size.

She reached her highest weight 278 lbs. when she was in seventh grade, but growing up in the South, it wasnt that out of the ordinary to be overweight, she says. We just had no idea that people ate any other way.

Jenkins, now 22, says that overeating was just part of her daily routine. Every day I would come home from school, watch TV with my sisters and eat a whole package of snack cakes, she says. After dinner, shed continue to snack on packaged foods like ramen with cheese and more snack cakes. But when she got to college, everything changed.

The turning point for me was meeting so many new people and realizing Wow, Im really actually very uncomfortable, the Knoxville, Tennessee, residentsays. I kind of became comfortable in that shell back home. In college I was like, I dont want this to be my first impression to everybody.

On New Years Day in 2013, Jenkins started her weight loss journey. I used My Fitness Pal app to log my food, workouts and all the water I drank, she says. She started off doing about an hour a day of cardio 45 minutes on the elliptical and 20 minutes on the exercise bike and after a few months,she moved on to weight training three days a week for 30 minutes. It took her one full year to lose 102 lbs, and in December 2016, after shed lost 106 lbs., she had a tummy tuck to remove excess skin.

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Jenkins says that one reason she was able to lose the weight and keep it off was because she didnt deprive herself. I didnt cut out anything completely; its about portion control, she says. Now she loads up on protein for breakfast by eating either oatmeal with fruit and peanut butter or a protein shake, and sticks to lean proteins and small amounts of carbs like sweet potatoes and rice.

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Education about health and wellness was a huge part of Jenkinss success she just graduated college with a degree in nutrition. My goal in life is just to help other people lose weight, in any way, any kind of job that I might be able to do that. Even if its just one person, [I want] to help one person change their lives like I changed mine.

Shes already inspiring those close to her: My whole family is motivated to get healthy because of me: My twin sister lost 170 lbs., my little sister lost 50 lbs. and my dad has lost 55 lbs.!

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