31-YEAR-OLD Ceara Dowell from Minneapolis, USA was left with 15lbs of excess skin after losing an incredible 210lbs. At her heaviest, weighing in at 350lbs, Ceara was struggling with binge eating. She told Truly: “I definitely ate my feelings, and I had a lot of feelings.” Being chronically sick and dealing with breathing problems and mobility issues, Ceara’s weight was having a massive impact on her life. And when her grandmother passed away unexpectedly several years ago, Ceara hit rock bottom. “We were incredibly close, she helped raise me and when she died I went into a full blown spiral, I was drunk for months.” When Ceara woke up from a panic attack in the middle of the night, she realised how her unhealthy lifestyle needed a drastic change: “I just knew I needed to change my whole life, or I was going to die.” The next day Ceara broke up with her then husband, moved in with her aunt and uncle and stopped drinking. Subsequently joining a gym and starting a keto diet, Ceara soon started shedding the extra pounds. However, quickly losing an incredible amount of weight meant Ceara was left with an abundance of loose skin, especially around her abdomen: “My extreme weight loss left me with 15lbs of excess skin, I had skin everywhere, rolls and rolls of empty skin.” A few months ago, Ceara had surgery to address the loose skin on her stomach and breasts and couldn’t be happier about the result. Ceara said: “For the first time in my life, I’m actually happy, I feel good and I can do activities that I never thought were possible.” https://www.instagram.com/ceara.dowell/