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I don't like how I have to always be judged for my weight - I hate that.

I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically.

I don't weigh myself.

Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

I seldom look at myself to avoid any self-criticism.