Some habits start small, but can creep up on you.

For Karen, it all started one day on her ride home from work.

I used to pull over to a gas station.

I would buy like a big bag of keto puffs and maybe a diet coke and like a Snickers bar.

Karen is a teacher who lives in Berkeley, California.

She can knock and take up to two hours for her to commute to the high school where she works.

And that's where the junk food came in.

And that just kind of got me through the stressful drive and it was clearly stress eating.

That's what it was.

She kept up this habit for about 15 years.

But then Karen got a wake up call and she realized she needed to change.

My wife had to call 911.

They didn't know if it was cardiac arrest, they didn't know what it was.

Karen feared the worst.

I literally had this moment in a millisecond when I was sitting at the kitchen table.

I actually said to myself, January 29th, this is my death day.

So I said, okay, listen for the ambulance.

And I waited to hear the ambulance and the sound of the ambulance kind of kept me conscious

and focused until the firefighters arrived and saved me.

Karen was taken to the emergency room and here's where things changed a bit in the story.

They determined she was experiencing a severe allergic reaction to some sort of medication.

Now even though this was not related to her eating habits, she says that night put a

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