Nearly the course of ten years, Leah Rae Russell shed nearly 200 pounds, but she claims that she didn’t quite realize how successful she had become until she took the last stage, which involved tightening and removing roughly three pounds of skin that was hanging from her stomach and chest.
She frequently doesn’t recognize herself when she looks in the mirror because the transformation has been so drastic.
“I find myself staring into mirrors a lot, and it seems extremely arrogant, but it’s really just a way of attempting to accept that what you’re looking at is your body. According to Russell, 31, a resident of South Sioux City, Nebraska, “that’s not someone else.”
