Beyond Surviving: Making Healthy Choices

FIGHTING WEIGHT: When Muhammad Ali's daughter Khaliah hit 325 pounds, she didn't need to be told again that she was morbidly obese. A lifetime of dieting, of starving had not helped..She thought about gastric bypass..She could not afford to risk leaving her young son without a mother...miserable and depressed and unable to walk up a flight of stairs without losing her breath, she did not know which way to turn-until a friend pointed her toward a new type of surgery called gastric banding."FIT TO LIVE: "Being Fit to Live is about so much more than your waistline. When you're Fit to Live, you're no longer in survival mode, swallowed up by crushing stress, eating binges, and TV zone-outs. You have the resources-mental, nutritional, physical, financial, environmental-to enjoy the exciting, rich, full life you deserve. Dr. Pamela Peeke has helped thousands of people remove weight and transform their lives."