A young man from New Brunswick has proven that becoming strong on the outside takes inner strength, too. So, too, does losing 235 pounds (106 kg) when you’re overweight. At the height of his weight gain, Connor Terry, from Moncton, Canada, tipped the scales at 435 pounds (197 kg). That was two years ago. Now, at age 22, he’s shed over over half his previous body weight and become a powerlifter, participating in his first powerlifting competition in August. But it didn’t come easy. Terry faced obstacles as a child before he gained all that weight. He faced mental health issues—anxiety and depression—in high school. “You get made fun of at school, and life is just hard in general when you’re not healthy to begin with,” Terry told The Epoch Times. “So, you know, my mental health declined the older I got.” That’s when those mental health issues dug in and …