I'm Stessa, I'm 20 and from NY. Right now I'm in college locally but I'm planning on transferring pretty soon. Besides being in school I spend a lot of my time with my band, which I'm the lead singer in. I'm also recently engaged.

Well, for the longest time I was in denial about being fat. I wasn't fat as a child, but when I quit swimming as a teen I stopped maintaining- and began to get larger.

I've been a vegetarian for about three years, and I do have to say I'm a big advocate for 'learning how to be a vegetarian healthily' before going for it. I know that I wasn't healthy about it at first, which did not help my weight problem. Now I understand how important it is to be a healthy vegetarian.

I decided to finally start to lose weight when people would make comments like, "You would be so pretty if you were thinner." and "You're so pretty but you'd be prettier if you lost weight." I decided that I hated these comments, and just needed to change. Not saying I decided to lose weight for anyone else, but I had been wanting to-- and all the negative attention was the last push I needed.

Besides all of that yucky stuff, I'm really into body modification. I have 8 tattoos and 19 piercings.

I guess that's it. =]