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She knew she had a problem when she was so overweight it was a struggle to get out of bed in the morning.
But Teresa Parent couldn’t figure out what to do about it and so her weight just kept creeping up. Even when she tipped the scales at 288kg and needed to be driven around in a golf cart because she could no longer walk the corridors at the school where she worked, she still couldn’t break her junk food habit.
“I was eating a large pizza almost daily and stopping at fast food drive-through restaurants and hiding in my car while I ate,” says Teresa (45), a behavioural support teacher from Long Beach, California, in the US.
