Fat, Fit, and Happy

Most success stories are reduced to numbers - "How many pounds did you lose?" However Kristie Agee weighs in at 329 pounds. Is she healthy? Yes. Is she happy? Yes - but it wasn't always so.

She started dieting when she was 8, and, ironically, said that dieting led to much of her weight gain and to her once-dysfunctional relationship with food.

She'd feel virtuous when she ate "good foods," which were usually low fat or low in carbohydrates, depending on the health fad of the moment. If she gave into temptation and ate a "bad food," she'd feel an indescribable sense of guilt.

Kristie sums her mindset up well:

"I focus more on my health than on my weight," she said. "And I want to make it clear that I don't promote poor health. I don't promote eating fried foods every day and never exercising. But what I do encourage people to do is eat well and exercise and let their body do what it wants to do."

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