How to Lose 150 Pounds

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How to Lose 150 pounds in less than a year, and be pronounced HEALTHY by your doctors. …ALL of them… I’m Erik Johnson I’m a veterinarian I weighed four hundred pounds in 2007. When I was at my heaviest, 429 pounds, I was just back from vacation in Daytona, Florida. I gave up my addiction to food in 2008 That’s how I finally lost 150 pounds. There’s a story. I knew I was addicted to food but I didn’t know how deeply. I just knew that: 1. I thought about food all the time 2. I could not limit my intake or do without it 3. It made me feel good 4. I was letting it hurt me 5. I had failed to control it 6. I was in denial about a lot of things When you’re overweight, you don’t feel like exercising. You can’t get around very well, you sweat a lot, and you sleep poorly. My bloodpressure was very high, my heart function was down at 80% according to Dr. Burkle. I was on five different heart medicines and I was depressed. I ate mostly to feel better. I ate anything I wanted. And I learned from repeated attempts that ANY time I was not eating everything I wanted, I was unhappy. So NO DIET WOULD BE PAINLESS. The funny thing was, even at 400 pounds, I had a positive self image, because when I looked in the mirror, I thought about all the nice things I did, and I noticed the nice things about how I looked, not the bad things. So losing weight was never an issue of vanity. Every holiday my family got together and ate like Vikings. They always made TONS of food and made extra if they knew I was coming there because I would eat more than any of them. My family are a bunch of excellent cooks. When I would go to a restaurant I would always get the biggest and most. “All U Can Eat” were words that sometimes, were more arousing to me than anything else. So, what changed? A very good friend of mine, Greg Wittstock was going to the “Human Performance

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