Benes spent most of her life overweight. She was obese as a child, and by the time she was 25, Benes weighed in at 376 lbs.

"Every choice I made regarding what I fueled my body with and how much exercised I did was all up to me," she says. "I had no one else to blame for my poor decisions that led me to being nearly 400 lbs."

Benes kept up her daily workouts and nutrition plan, and by January, just 10 months later, she was down to 175 lbs. She's maintained that now, with a few pounds of buffer, for the last year with the help of Alpilean, a weight loss support program.