In a piece for Breitbart, Lisa De Pasquale, author of The Gen X Handbook for Middle Age: The Pursuit of Health, Success, and Human Fulfillment, writes: I weighed nearly 300 pounds when I introduced businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump at his first political speech at CPAC 2011. (You’re welcome, America!)
I sat on the dais as then-CPAC Director doing my best to take up as little space as possible in my 5’4” frame as the audience cheered and shouted, “Obama, you’re fired!” Two months later, I was fired. Following that day, I had various jobs in the political sphere — as I continued my transformation to becoming a sphere. By October 2018, I was single, over 40, over 300 pounds, unemployed again, in credit card debt, and desperate for stability. I found it in a surprising place – my weight loss journey.