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Article written By Brittney R. Villalva, of the Christian Post Reporter

“Pawn Stars” shop owner Corey Harrison has lost 115 pounds over the past year after undergoing lap band surgery and an extreme overhaul to his diet.

While he may be known as “Big Hoss” in the “Pawn Stars” reality series, Corey Harrison decided a year ago that it was time to lose weight. The […]

Article Source: Larry Brown Sports

We were impressed last May when Rex Ryan revealed he already lost 90 pounds since undergoing lap band surgery in March 2010. We’re even more impressed after learning that Ryan has dropped a total of 120 pounds since the surgery and is now looking pretty svelte.

The New York Jets head coach spoke with the New York Post about running […]

Source: By Susan Bloom for the Asbury Park Press

Anthony Damodio, 30, remembers what life was like life, topping the scales at more than 450 pounds.

“I couldn’t buy clothes at a normal store or do activities without feeling sore or tired,” the 6-foot-tall Barnegat resident, an EMT, said. “On the job, I was going on calls looking worse than my patients, and everyone had something […]

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has said family considerations drove him to have weight-loss surgery. Turns out there was a more visible reason, too, one that affects a lot of us who struggle with our weight: He couldn’t fit into his clothes.

Christie, a Republican running for a second term in November, disclosed last week that he had gastric banding surgery in February.

“The things that really […]

Lap-band surgeries are in the spotlight now that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie revealed in an interview with the New York Post that he secretly underwent the procedure in February at his family’s urging.

Christie told the paper that he was motivated to undergo the procedure by his children, not political ambitions for the presidency.