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Dropping lbs.: Debbie Lazinsky of Wheatley Heights

Originally published: April 12, 2013 11:28 AM
Updated: April 23, 2013 11:32 AM
By SYLVIA E. KING-COHEN  sylvia.king-cohen@newsday.com

Debbie Lazinsky was a chubby kid who grew

Photo credit: Handout/Audrey C. Tiernan | Debbie Lazinsky was a chubby kid who grew into an obese adult. To help start her weightloss, she educated herself on good nutrition. Lazinsky now exercises five days a week at the gym and bikes and walks outside in nice weather. (April 16, 2013)

HER STORY: Debbie Lazinsky was a chubby kid who grew into an obese adult. "It was a combination of things: ignorance of proper nutrition, a sedentary lifestyle and I was also a really good cook," Lazinsky says.

Although her doctor recommended she have gastric bypass surgery, she resisted. "I needed to find a way to get control of my food, because I didn't want to eat the way people have to...

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