Cathy’s Side Effects

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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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For her post surgical recovery, Cathy comments on how “my whole life I had never really had any time for myself and clearly I had never really addressed the weight issue in any comprehensive way, so I looked at the six weeks off of work as a time for me to really be able to focus on all aspects of my recovery and to make it my priority.” She also talks about how she has decided not to worry about some of the excess skin as a result of her weight loss and how surprised she was when her hair started falling out as her weight came off.

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