“You’ll be lucky to lose 40 pounds by Christmas,” my nurse said with a polite smile. I remember leaving her office that day with tears in my eyes. I felt defeated… again. But something inside me whispered — prove her wrong. To be just to her, she was not wrong, I had recently been diagnosed with acute obesity. Doctors had advised me to get bariatric surgery. I would have done anything to avoid getting under the knife. If only I knew a way. A few weeks later, a friend told me about a 10-second “G