After her mastectomy in 2019, April Capil was at a weigh-in for reconstructive surgery. She watched in disbelief as she saw the nurse add more weight to the arm of the scale until it read 204.
“Here I was having major surgery to reduce my risk of a cancer recurrence, but it turned out that obesity was an even greater risk to my health,” she says.
Capil had been overweight most of her life…
Growing up, Lindsay Raynne relied on food for emotional support. “I came from a broken family, and eating was my constant,” she says. “Stability in caloric intake, you could say. I could always count on the joys of taste.” Low income living meant poor food quality…