Vickie Coleman, 69, of Covington, struggled with her weight for decades.
“I was in an unhealthy relationship for 30 years,” she explains. “Food was my friend. That’s how I reached 300 pounds.”
Coleman tried diets and programs like Atkins, WeightWatchers, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem and Golo, among others.
“But I didn’t follow through with any of them,” she admits. “I’d try, but then I’d quit.”
Coleman left her relationship, but says she continued eating poorly.
“I didn’t have a lot of respect for myself to lose weight,” she says. “That’s why I didn’t succeed on my own.”
