Nothing felt like more of a callout than the day Christy Hare couldn't fit on the Superman ride at an amusement park. At only 5-feet-4-inches tall, she was close to 300 pounds and too wide for the seat.
At the time, Hare worked in a hospital caring for gastric bypass patients. She had even applied for the surgery herself, only to be denied.
Watching her family go on the ride without her, something clicked. She decided to pretend she'd actually had one of those bypass surgeries, then eat and exercise the way her patients had been instructed to post-operation.
As a result, she shed over 100 pounds. But the tragic loss of her 16-year-old son, Casey, to an automobile accident in 2010 sent her into a period of deep mourning and grief.
The pain was overwhelming and led to self-destructive behaviors. "I felt guilty eating, showering, or even smiling because my son couldn't," she recalls, noting that, for the first week after her son's death, she didn't eat anything at all.
"But then...
Source: Christy Hare Lifted Her Way Out Of Grief
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