Cathy’s Discovery

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Cathy is a 63 year-old married woman and mother to a grown daughter. She is a high level sales executive in the entertainment industry. In a poignant interview, Cathy reflects on over 55 years of dieting, starting at the age of 5. As a child of the 60s, she was prescribed medication for obesity: speed and diuretics as a way to lose weight. Today she says how lucky she was “not to have a heart-attack” after developing a serious sleep problem due to those medications. Cathy talks about her fears prior to surgery of having to buckle an airplane seat belt and walking into a conference room worried that she’d break a chair. She had a sleeve gastrectomy 3 years ago, lost 130 pounds and continues to maintain that weight loss.

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ContributorCathy, 58Read Full Bio

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Cathy is a 63 year-old married woman and mother to a grown daughter. She is a high level sales executive in the entertainment industry. In a poignant interview, Cathy reflects on over 55 years of dieting, starting at the age of 5. As a child of the 60s, she was prescribed medication for obesity: speed and diuretics as a way to lose weight. Today she says how lucky she was “not to have a heart-attack” after developing a serious sleep problem due to those medications. Cathy talks about her fears prior to surgery of having to buckle an airplane seat belt and walking into a conference room worried that she’d break a chair. She had a sleeve gastrectomy 3 years ago, lost 130 pounds and continues to maintain that weight loss.

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Cathy reflects back on a lifelong battle with weight and all of the diets she tried. She talks about how doctors back in the 60’s and 70’s used speed to promote weight-loss and how those medications affected her ability to sleep to the point she began hiding the pills under her mattress at home. Cathy’s weight really started to be a bigger issue after the birth of her daughter. She put every available hour into being the best executive, wife and mother she could be all the while forgetting to take care of herself. She struggled with the thought of bariatric surgery until she finally committed to the sleeve gastrectomy surgery just a few days before it was scheduled.

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