And yet, after all the vicissitudes of life, the woman does not give up and continues to live a full life.
There are a million stories on the Internet about how girls lose weight fantastically, eating only cabbage, apples or kefir. Well …
This story of extreme weight loss of single mother Charity Pierce will surprise you.
This woman was called one of the fattest women in the world. Having gained 347 kg, Pierce decided that she loves fast food, of course, but it seems that she will soon die.
For the sake of her daughter and 22-year-old boyfriend (yes, yes!) She decided to radically change her life and went to the TV show “My 600-Pound Life”.
A 38-year-old American woman from Iowa suffered not only from obesity, but also from lymphedema. Due to this disease, so much fluid accumulated in her limbs that her left leg swelled to incredible sizes. After some time, she was unable to move on her own.
For the sake of her beloved Tony, Charity was ready to do anything. After she stopped getting into a car, and renting a special car would have cost $5,000, she decided: this can’t go on. Otherwise, you won’t get to the registry office!
In the name of love, her daughter, and for the sake of her well-being, Pierce decided to participate in the TLC program, but even here, things were not so simple.
The woman was in dire need of a gastric band. And to safely perform the surgery, doctors required her to lose 121 kg. Surgeons agreed to perform the extremely complex operation, provided she weighed 226 kg.
“The only thing that will save my life is gastric bypass. But I am a single mother with a disability and I have no one to rely on but myself,” she said at the time.
The process of losing weight was not easy. If previously the calories consumed per day exceeded several thousand, now it was possible to eat only 1200. Charity switched to salads and yogurts. And before she ate a whole buffet table in a day: two pizzas, several sandwiches, five donuts, a package of popcorn, two lasagnas, a pack of chips and ice cream.
At the moment, Ms. Pearce has already lost 220 kg and continues to diet and diligently work out according to a specially designed program. But her daughter has managed to gain weight over the past two years and by the age of 18 weighed almost 180 kg! Both heredity and lifestyle played their role.
After losing weight, Charity broke up with Thomas – he did not wait for her to lose weight and cheated on her. Against this background, the woman began to drink, and her daughter ran away from her.
In 2020, Pearce published the news on her social networks that she had been diagnosed with oncology: “On Christmas I found out that I had kidney cancer. This shocked me, because my mother died of brain cancer. The next step was to remove my kidney as soon as possible before it spread to other organs. So, on March 2, I had my kidney removed. And now I’m recovering at home, trying to heal. I just hope that the future holds only good things for me.”
Charity has apparently made amends for all her suffering. Now the woman weighs just over 100 kg, has stopped drinking, is passionate about her father and has improved her relationship with her daughter.
During this time, Pierce Jr. managed to get married and give birth to a child. Now the happy grandmother spends all her time with her baby, but at the same time does not forget about her health and goes in for sports.
