Simone Anderson has been fighting the weight battle for all her life. She decided that it was enough, so one year ago, she made a change. Today, she lost 189 pounds, losing half of what she weighed last year. Sounds like a good story, right?

This is Simone:

She looks fantastic now.

She shared her journey every week on Instagram and Facebook.

A lot of people around the world also supported her quest.

But there are haters too. Some people thought she was a fake. "I don't know why but every single comment that called me out for being fake and a liar really bothered me far more than it should," she wrote.

Her response was to deal with the way she's always been dealing with issues: HEAD ON.

She writes:

I don't no why but every single comment that called me out for being fake and a liar really bothered me far more than it should. I think it's because it took hours of crying and debating whether to share my story online and for others to see, posting the first picture online along with my weight for the world to see what the hardest thing I have ever done.

Throughout my whole journey I have tried to be so honest about the whole experience and tell people it exactly as it's happened so to be called a fake hurt a lot. And then when it came to posting about my lose skin well that was equally as tough.

So here we go I hope this helps all the "non believers" - my face uncovered, yes my hair and eyebrows are a different colour as I'm going back to blonde, yes I have changed my phone from Samsung to apple and have moved house so the background has changed (it has been 11 months people, things change!), my skin colour varies in every single post as I get a spray tan once a week on a Thursday and often change the depth of the colour I get depending on what event I have that weekend, yes I have lose skin and stretch marks but I don't feel the need to show them in every single photo I post online, I have shared my excess skin picture before so if you had bothered to click on my page you would have seen it and as for my ears changing in appearance?!

Well I can't see that haha so who the hell knows!!! Maybe weight changes ears lol. Hope this helps :D now lost 85.7 GO ME!

"Throughout my whole journey I have tried to be so honest about the whole experience and tell people exactly as it's happened so to be called a fake hurt a lot. And then when it came to posting about my lose skin well that was equally as tough. So here we go I hope this helps all the 'non believers,'" she wrote.