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WESH 2EWS N ON CW18 STARTS NOW. JASON: A DRASTIC CHANGE OF LIFE HAS COME TO OUR OWN ERIC BURRIS. YOU SEE HIM ON-AIR OR ONNELI WITH COFFEE TALK WHIT ERIC’S EVERY DAY AND YOU HAVE PROBABLY NOTICED A MAJOR DIFFERENCE. MEREDITH: DAY-AFTER-DAY HE RECEIVES QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS WEIGHT LOSS. TODAY, HE’S SHARING HIS JOURNEY WITHS. U OUR VERY OWN FIRST WARNING METEROLOGIST ERIC BURRIS JOINS US THIS MORNG. FIRST, YOU LOOK TERRIFIC. ERIC: THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE IT. MEREDITH: FILL EVERYONE IN. TALK TO EVERYONE ABOUT YOUR JOURNEY. WHY DID THIS COME ABOUT? ERIC: I HAVE BEEN THE BIG GUY MY WHOLE LIFE AND REALITY IS I HAVE WEIGHED ALMOST 300 POUNDS FOR MOST OF MY ADULT LIFE. WITH DIFFICULTY EVER TOUCHING IT. YOU CAN SEE THIS IS YEARS AGO. IT WAS NO DIFFERENT TO ABOUT SURGERY. WHAT I WAS FEELING WAS MORE AND MORE TAXING FOR EVERY DUTY I DID. AS WE ADDED CHILDREN TO OUR FAMILY, BATHING THEM BECAME A CHORE, GETTING ON MYNE KES TO THE BATHTUB, LIFTING THEM UP, CARRYING THEM AROUND. I COULD VERY CLEARLY TELL LIFE WAS NOT HEADED IN A GOOD DIRECTION. ETDIING, JUST NOTHING WE.ER IT WAS NOT UNTIL ONE OF OUR COLLEAGUES HERE — WHEN I WAS DOING THE MORNING SHOW, THEY CAME UP TO ME AND SAID LISTEN, THIS MAY BE PEONRSAL BUT WE ARE ALL OVER HERE ORDERING I HOP AND DENNY’S AND EATING DURING THIS EIGHT HOUR MORNING SHOW WE DO AND YOU ARE OVER THERE SIPPING COFFEE. WHAT’S GOING ON? IS THERE SOMETHING GOING ON? I SAID I DON’T THINK SO. HE SAID MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO A DOCTOR ABOUT THIS. I TOOK THAT EXACT CONVERSATION TO MY GENERAL CARE DOCRTO AND IT WAS FORMULATED SO DIFFERENTLY AND IT HAD ALWAYS BEEN WHY CAN’T I LOSE WGHEIT. NOW ITAS W, EVERYBODY IS HUNGRY IN THE MORNINGUT B ME. THAT LED US DOWN THIS PATH OF FINDING OUT ABOUT INSULIN AND THE PANCREAS AND, THROUGH THAT, THIS DOOR ONEPED FOR SURGERY BECAUSE I WAS BASICALLYOL TD YOU ARE GOING TO GO …….

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