Life was tough. I suffered a traumatic injury and also endured a terrible loss at a very young age. Food became my therapy. I was sad, overweight, physically sick from asthma and emotionally sick from allowing others to put me down. One day, as I sat in my car, literally drowning my sorrows in fast food, something made me look up. When I saw the billboard above me advertising St. Luke’s weight loss surgery, it clicked. Since then, I haven’t looked back. 215 pounds lighter, I feel like I have been reborn and am living MY life.