My name is Sheri Arcuria. I am the author of "Unzipped" about my life with obesity and "Blindsided" about life curve balls and navigating around them. I am also the owner of Master of Bad-Assery (M.O.B.A.), an apparel brand promoting a badass mindset that anything is achievable, once you get out of your own head and get to moving. The life of diet culture started when I was about 11 years old and the PE teacher told me I was fat and needed to go on a diet. I was 4'11" and

My name is Teresa Marie Gallegos, and my life’s purpose is to help others shine. I battled obesity and depression for most of my life, and after losing my brother and my mother to suicide, my world completely unraveled. For years, I lived at over 600 pounds. Food became my safety, my coping mechanism, and the one thing that never left when everything else felt unbearable. Survival mode became my normal. The catalyst for change wasn’t a number on the scale—it was the quiet, he