Jennifer Warrick tried everything: keto and low-carb diets, long walks, Trulicity — a dulaglutide-based GLP-1 for diabetes, which failed to get her blood sugar under control. Nothing worked. She’d finally accepted that she would be overweight forever.

I give up , she told herself. I’m comfortable at 300 pounds. Who cares what anyone else thinks?

Acceptance felt empowering but didn’t change the facts. Her health challenges were compounding. A Type 2 diabetic, like herself, faces a lower life expectancy than non-diabetics by an average of six years. She fought high blood pressure, high cholesterol, neuropathy, fatty liver disease and sleep apnea. Her doctors warned of heart disease and stroke. Even worse, her depression, due to a futile seven-year fertility journey and the death of he

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