Deborah Norville from Inside Edition dropped 30 lbs. After a decade of feeling ‘terrible’ on his body

For “a decade”, Deborah Norville hated the appearance of her body.

“I realized truly bad,” provide 60 year old In print tells People. “I did not like to enter a room, I did not like leaving a room, because the view in both directions was horrible.”

But beyond esthetics, Norville was developing health problems made worse by genetics.

“I have a family history of many heart problems,” she says. “My big wake-up call was that my blood pressure had increased, and I was very angry about that, because I do not eat a lot of garbage, but my doctor behold me and said,” At some point you may not escape your genetics. “Well, my blood pressure could  not be that high if I was not so fat.” He said do something about it.

From there, Norville decided to completely cut all the sugar.

It was not easy, because it is in everything, “she says.” It took me about three solid weeks to be incredibly determined to avoid sugar. “He will be amazed at how much added sugar there is when he starts reading his words. I looked at my half and half and the second ingredient was corn syrup, which made me a dilettante about reading labels. “

Ditching sugar meant getting out of the candy bowl in the office lounge and ignoring the boxes of cookies with hidden sucrose, but after the first three weeks, he found that his taste buds had changed.

“I started to realize that it was working when I ate half a block, and it tasted very sweet,” she says.

Norville also began to eat fresh foods as much as possible, such as high-fiber vegetables that he simply roasted with olive oil and spices like turmeric and curry. And every morning, I mixed a bowl of oatmeal with flax seeds.

Without really trying to lose a certain amount of weight, Norville dropped 30 pounds. in about eight months

“I am very gratified with where I am now,” she says. “Frankly, I look pretty good, I can adjust to a dress that I bought the year after I graduated from high school, and that makes me very proud.”

In addition, Norville’s blood pressure numbers are “definitely better” and “I feel good,” she says.

And although at first she was strict with herself, Norville allowed herself to drink wine during the holiday season, she is simply moving away from the hors d’oeuvres.

“Unfortunately, one of the things with sugar is wine, but I’m not an absolute over it,” he says. “I’m not going to eat those pigs in a blanket, because it’s not worth it, you do a little cost-benefit analysis in your head.”