Weight-loss surgery ?only the beginning?

For most of her life, Tanya Mackey felt as though she were a prisoner in her own body.

But through weight-loss surgery in August 2008, which helped her lose more than 110 pounds so far, the 30-year-old Schuylkill Haven woman feels as if she has been set free from a life sentence of being overweight.

?I finally feel like I am the person I was meant to be,? said Mackey, who recently formed a local support group for others who are contemplating weight-loss surgery, going through the process, or who have had it done. Click here for full article.