Rachel Heffner was someone who is everything far from the definition of an ideal woman because of her appearance, particularly, her body shape. Due to her family circumstances, nobody had been paying much attention to her diet, causing her to develop a bad eating habit until she was 27 years old and weighed 300 pounds. Although she was still a confident girl, she was annoyed by the fact that her crush rejected her, most probably because of how she looked and decided to get on moving.

She worked out, changed her diet, and went through one surgery. She changed her life from the confident 300-pound girl to a gorgeous, rocking confident bodybuilder! Check out her cool story below.

Rachael Heffner is a 27-year-old college girl who found the motivation to workout after a heartbreaking rejection.

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She is born in a family that had to spend hours working every day. Because of that, she was allowed to eat whatever she wants. That means everything good and most probably unhealthy.

Eating was also her stress reliever when her mother passed away from systemic mastocytosis when she was at age of 7. It continued throughout her life and she had the BMI of 50 which is dangerously high according to WHO.

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She wanted to prove the boy wrong for rejecting her. He made it clear it was because of how she looked, so she began to go on a diet and workout. And she made drastic changes to her life: from junk food, to healthy fruits and vegetables. From soda to water.

“It was hard at first, whenever I was hungry I would snack on fruits or vegetables and before eating I’d drink a glass of water to help fill me up more.”

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But don't get her wrong; she was not a shy and depressed kid because she was the total opposite of that. She was a cheerful and outgoing girl who loves to meet new people. But she could feel like she was challenged to burn all those fat and reappear as the 'ideal' girl her crush was probably referring to.

She also proved her pops wrong who "will only believe it after he sees it"!

After burning all those fat, her excessive skin sags down because there was no more fat. She had to undergo a surgery to remove the excessive skin and that cost her $18,000! A fantastic price she paid to be able to wear a bikini with confident.

At the end of the day, it wasn't necessarily the motivation to prove the guy wrong, but also her realization that she was not going to 'live past 25' when going on with the destructive lifestyle. She could down 4 bottles of fizzy drinks and would regularly consume fast food.

Now she's a proud bodybuilder!

And it wasn't just shedding fat, but building muscles was also part of her activities! She is now a proud bodybuilder who also help others achieve the same results. Now she works at the gym as a personal trainer and dedicates her life to it.