Lessons from 100-lb weight loss: dignity, respect and love [USAToday.com]
I was yet to turn 40, and my body was already breaking down. It had been a few months since I hurt my back carrying groceries. The injury would not heal, hampered greatly because I weighed close to 600 pounds. I had ignored my morbid obesity for years — even after I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. I shrugged and took pills, but still refused to change my diet or embrace exercise. That changed one day in February 2015, when I was reporting a column at Mercy Medical Center and had to stop...