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June 01, 2009 @ 12:00pm CDT, by Tracy Courage • Photography by Jennifer Freeman
 Doris Holloway of Arkadelphia, Ark., tried Sugar Busters, the South Beach Diet, Atkins and many other diets. She has taken diet pills and joined weight loss organizations, but her weight loss successes never lasted.
“I’d lose weight and then gain it back and end up weighing more,” Holloway, 63, said. “I never changed my way of eating.”
In May 2006, Holloway had laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery. At the time, she was 80 pounds overweight, had high blood pressure and was at risk for diabetes. Her body mass index (BMI), a body fat calculation based on height and weight, was 37 (A BMI of 25 and more is considered overweight; 30 and higher is considered obese, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). |
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May 01, 2009 @ 01:24pm CDT, by Angela E. Thomas
 Perhaps you’ll be surprised to learn the incidences of suicide are higher in April and May than in any other time of the year. Most of us think that it’s the emotionally-charged holidays that offer the opportunity for those inclined to respond fatally to the deadly gamma ray/kryptonite powers of the family of origin. No, we survive that “should be happy” trauma only to be overwhelmed by our lack of happiness in spring, the “season of life,” Nature’s rebirth. We think, “I SHOULD be happy, everyone else is.”
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