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Nancy Makin's life began as a lot of people's do; in living a rather normal, middle-class life amongst a large, all-girl family in Seattle, Washington. She loved to insert a nickel and peer through the telescope stationed atop Kerry Park, out onto the waters of Puget Sound and its heavy boat traffic, or go fishing with her father and grandfather out on Neah Bay. She was a carefree, curious and happy child, happiest of all when playing outside shoeless, searching for slugs under rocks or for bumblebees that congregated on her mom's lilac bushes in their large yard on Queen Anne Hill. She'd capture them in old baby food jars, releasing them after careful examination. Each day brought a new adventure... all was a playground for her.
But at the age of nine, all childhood play was put away when the decision was made to uproot the family and move into the stifling fold of a religious cult in far-off Quebec. None of their lives would ever be the same.
From Nancy's early marriage at age 15, to motherhood soon thereafter as a sixteen year old, with her increasing dependency and misuse of food, her weight gain was at first only an uncomfortable, frustrating issue. But over many, many years of "stuffing" her feelings with food, those poor choices led her into a life of near-total isolation and a very grave, debilitating physical condition. She didn't have hope for her future, better or otherwise. She had resigned herself to a life shortened by her choices, her inability to control her behavior... or so she thought.
Nancy has told her unlikely story of rebirth, of recapturing her long forgotten self-worth and that discovery's resultant 530 pound weight loss with joy, humor and with the rare perspective that can only come from one who's lived it.
She has appeared on Oprah and Good Morning America.
Makin is a writer and lecturer: Rediscover the value within!
She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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