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CBN.com Hi, my name is Cathy McCormick. You may have recently watched my story on the Living the Life show. A few months ago, I desperately wanted to have a gastric bypass to help me lose 200 excess pounds. As a desperate, morbidly obese, single parent of two, I believed this surgery was my only hope in finding happiness and the thin body I craved. At nearly 350 pounds, I was immediately approved for the surgery.
Before my Gastric Bypass surgery, I was advised to write a legal Will. As a single parent, I took this advice very serious. As I sat down to put in writing who should get my kids if I died in surgery, I started to panic. Here I was, trying to lengthen my life by having this drastic surgery, and instead of making fun plans for the future, I was being forced to decide who gets to raise my kids. This was crazy! I wanted to raise my kids! As bad as it felt, it was the responsible thing to do. I ended up preparing the Will and had it notarized. This caused such grief for me as I began to realize just how much food and overeating had taken control of my life. 
On the eve of my surgery when I should have been excited about the "quick fix" I'd found that would forcibly stop me from overeating the peace of God never came. That evening, I realized for the first time in my life that my challenge was more than a big appetite; it was a "heart" issue. I had spent years medicating and numbing the pain from my past with food. Basically, food was my love, my best friend, my drug of choice.
On the show with Terry, Louise and Dr. Linda, I was excited to share that just hours before surgery, I called the hospital and cancelled! I wanted healing inside and out not just in the areas the world could see!
The surgery may have helped me get the excess pounds off if I lived through it! But a tiny new stomach could never have healed me emotionally. I believe I would have continued to hurt on the inside and, in time, find another unhealthy way to medicate.
Today, I have a future and a hope. Through counseling, the Lord showed me where this compulsion to "stuff" myself first began. After identifying the root lie that I believed all those years, and exposing it to the truth of God, I was instantly healed from compulsive overeating.
Today, 85 pounds later, my life has changed! My kids and I swim at a local gym regularly. We are eating healthier foods. And we try to sit down together as a family for meals instead of habitually eating fatty, high-calorie fast foods on the run. I have more energy. More patience. Better self-discipline and esteem. And I am slowly becoming the woman God created me to be.
Cathy
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