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Today on the exam room. I was about three weeks in doing really well and I was on my way home from work.

I'd had a bad day and like so many other times in my, when I had bad days, I was thinking, I'm going

to stop at Dairy Queen on the way home because that's what I always did.

And I always ordered the largest whatever there, high fat, high sugar, I just wanted to drown

my sorrows.

And so on the way home I started talking to myself out loud, call me crazy if you want to,

and I said to myself, Brenda, this is not about weight loss anymore. This is now about your health.

You have high blood pressure. You have high cholesterol. This could very easily lead to heart

disease. Is this what you want? You need to think long and hard about this.

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