By Suze Hargraves
I eat a low-fat/high protein diet with carefully monitored caloric intake. It was recommended by an abdominal surgeon the morning after I collapsed in pain and was carted off to the hospital. After a battery of tests the diagnosis was, to put it bluntly, that I was too fat and ate one heck of a poor diet. If I kept it up, it would happen again. If I mended my evil ways it would not. I mended. Pain is a great motivator for me. Today I am about 75 pounds lighter and a lot more fit. Today I’d like to share some of the basic things I learned on my journey with you.
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