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KM’s Becky Lail Organizes
Overweight Support Group
; Becky Goforth Lail, 37, went back to college after raising a
amily. 0
Working two jobs to complete her education, she is a third
year honor student at Gardner Webb College and before that
completed evening classes at Cleveland Technical College
as an All A student. :
The road to success hasn’t been easy for Mrs. Lail but she
gives credit to her family and new friends she met during the
past several years for building her self confidence. She is now
trying to repay some of that help by organizing a volunteer
support group for overweight women.
Two years ago as a patient of Dr. Stan Reiziss in Charlotte,
Becky organized the support group and through hypnosis her
weight was reduced 150 pounds, from about 485 pounds.
A fulltime seamer at Lyntex Mills and a parttime hair-
dresser at Scissors & Styles, she wrote a term paper on the
subject of hypnosis and then her therapist suggested she
write an article for the national newsletter, ‘Hypnosis
Reports”. She wrote on the subject, “Hypnosis As A Tool In
The Treatment of Loneliness.” It appears in the July edtion.
Because of a metabolistic health problem, Becky Lail has
fought a weight problem all her life. She stands five feet five
inches tall and now weighs 485 pounds. If she consumes over
400 calories a day she gains weight.
A positive advocate of hypnosis, she thinks *‘skinny”’, but
believes that many obese people are discriminated against as
prospective employees even though they may be more
qualified than people hired as secretaries and in other profes-
sions. The job market is not good for overweight men or
women, says Becky, who is an experienced typist, likes to
paint, write, and has been offered a job by her therapist after
she completes her schooling.
Serving as a peer counselor for ‘Woman Reach”, which
she originated, helped her as well as her new friends.
Although she had been interested in hypnosis since a young
girl, Becky said she had always been discouraged from par-
ticipation. After a medial referral to Charlotte therapist
Reiziss four years ago, Becky said she has found her self
direction, improved attitude and accepted. x
She said she had reached the place in her life that she didn’t
want to stay in the world. ‘There was just no reason to be
here,’’ she said. i
She said Dr. Ron Wright of Cleveland Tech had encouraged
her writing and that her family, including her father, Kelly
Goforth, and her children, Sherry, 18, and Danny, 11, had
backed her in her career plans.
, Her goal is to start day classes soon at Gardner Webb Col-
ege.
"And her advice to anyone who becomes discouraged is
“don’t give up.”
"In the opening paragraph of her recent story Lail wrote,
“For what is loneliness? But an all consuming endless,
degrading void, nothingness, where hurt, sadness, and
disparity may enter, but none leave.” She wrote, “Being
unloved and lonely has been called the greatest poverty.
Perhaps for more people than one realizes the world is a lone-
ey
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