Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

[Jon]

I highly recommend this movie documentary, which you can watch on YouTube. It was also on Netflix. Might still be there. I remember seeing this a couple of years ago. Very inspiring. It is about a guy with lots of health problems due to excess weight and his quest to turn it around by going on a juicing diet.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

All kidding aside, I once had a talk with a neighbor who was graduating from Medical School. She told me that for most people who were either diabetic (not me) or pre-diabetic/metabolic syndrome (me), that if you could lose about 10% to 15% of your body weight, a lot of those symptoms would vanish. I am still working on my first 10% and I'm getting there slowly. I've found that crash diets don't work for me because they are impossible to maintain even if you hit the target weight. You have to ease you way to the lower weigh and let the body have time to adjust..