A Labrador City woman, who calls herself the “queen of quick fixes,” says she was sick of wasting her life.
Catherine Stone is this year’s TOPS Queen of Newfoundland and Labrador after she lost 113 pounds and kept it off.
TOPS is a non-profit organization and stands for Take Off Pounds Sensibly but Stone says it was not that simple. At her heaviest, Stone was 367 pounds.
She says during her journey, there were many ups and downs.
Over the years she says she has lost and gained so many people. She says she would go to TOPS meetings at first and do really well, then she would gain 20-30 pounds and quit.
She describes her “life that wasn’t” and how with the help of a support system and accountability, she got her life back.
She says she needs somewhere to go and weigh in. Stone says having someone to speak to and having a place to physically go to really helped her.