After slightly more than a year, and down thirty-five and a half pounds, SP finally had her cholesterol rechecked, and the results were astounding. Her total cholesterol dropped 22 percent, triglycerides were down 41 percent, bad cholesterol was down 31 percent, and her good cholesterol was exactly the same! Her eating habits had become completely “second nature,” and she actually continued losing relatively effortlessly beyond her initial goal weight.
Melina Jampolis, M.D., author of "The No Time to Lose Diet," is a board-certified internist and physician nutrition specialist (one of only 200 in the country). She specializes exclusively in nutrition for weight loss and disease prevention and treatment. This excerpt has been displayed with permission from Thomas Nelson, Inc.
