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Success Stories: Star McDougaller Raymond Cool

Note: this content originally appeared in our December 2013 newsletter. More up-to-date research may be available, but the message is still the same!

“I was obsessed with food. I always wanted more while simultaneously wanting to eat less.”

I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t overweight. When my weight climbed into the 300’s I was no longer capable of the same kind of activity as other people. By the time it climbed into the 400’s I struggled to function at all.

I’ve asked myself over and over through the years—through the decades—“What is wrong with me? Why do I have such an insatiable appetite? Is there something wrong with me physically, emotionally, or psychologically?”

I eventually learned there wasn’t anything wrong with me, but with the food I was putting into my body. I never could have imagined that something as basic as food could take complete hold of my life the way it did. But as Dr. McDougall says: “It’s the food.” I believe that now, but it took me a while to get here.

The Chubby Kid

Growing up