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One day, Nick stood on two scales--one for each foot. Each needle came to rest on "233 1/2." A fourth-grader could do the math: Dr. Nick Yphantides, the jolly doc with http://gr8marketingideas.com/the-venus-factor-system-ebook-review/ the Santa Claus-like image, weighed in at a hefty 467 pounds. Nick was scared. His cancer had forced him to face his mortality, and now he was sure that each bite of an In-N-Out 4x4 brought him one swallow closer to the grave. Something needed to be done. Nick was tired of dressing in XXXXL T-shirts and tent-sized gym pants, tired of booking uncrowded red-eye flights so that he wouldn't have to buy a second seat, tired of gawkers staring at his monstrous midsection in restaurants. Ahead of him was a future filled with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and debilitating diabetes--unless he made a radical lifestyle change and lost a ton of weight. Well, maybe not a ton, but 200 pounds would be a good start, he figured.

In April 2000, Nick gave a one-year notice that he would be stepping down and leaving the Escondido Community Health Center. Then he began formulating a game plan. Since he wasn't going to work, he needed something to do--a diversion to keep his mind off being so hungry. That's it! Nick loved baseball (or was it those http://innertradingcirclereviews.co/the-venus-factor-system-plan-review/ ballpark franks?), so he decided to drive around the country and visit all 30 major league ballparks and watch baseball games. He calculated that he had been consuming 5,600 calories a day to maintain his weight. To lose weight slowly but surely, he would embark on a liquid fast--drinking a protein supplement offering just 800 calories a day.