Dropping lbs.: The Moneta family
Photo credit: Handout; Newsday/Thomas A. Ferrara | Losing weight became a family affair for the Monetas. Lou and Donna Moneta decided to use the Medifast meal replacement program. Then last summer, after getting the OK from the pediatrician, they enrolled Donato in Jenny Craig. "If you have someone to do it [diet and exercise] with, it will be a lot easier," Lou Moneta says. (April 2, 2013)
Donna Moneta of Franklin Square before she lost THEIR STORY: Lou, Donna and Donato Moneta had all become comfortable with being overweight.
"Coming from an Italian family, there was always lots to eat," says Lou Moneta, who was overweight almost his entire life due to lack of exercise and super-size meals. Skipping breakfast and lunch really helped pack the weight on.
"By dinner, I'd be ravenous and eat too much and then not feel...
