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By Stephanie Stahl

SEWELL, NJ (CBS) Weight loss surgery is a life saver for millions and is often prescribed by doctors when diets dont work. Its routinely covered by insurance, so why did one New Jersey father get turned down? With his life in jeopardy, the family turned to 3 On Your Side desperate for help.

Its a struggle just to stand for Bill Conway. He weighs 505 pounds and cant walk on his own. But he still tries to play with his young sons.

Its killing me. You know, its justmy life has been challenging like you wouldnt believe, said Bill.

He has so much trouble doing so many things, said William, Bills son.

Bill, whos six-foot-four-inches and lives in Sewell, New Jersey, says hes always struggled with his weight, but never like this.

He broke his back in a horrific car crash 12 years ago, and then there were a series of complications and knee injuries.

From that accident to today there was continual weight gain. Initially after that first year, there was really no activity that I could really do, said Bill.

He says the weight gain got even worse because of depression, prescription drugs and being laid off. Twenty pounds turned into 50 pounds and then hundreds more.

Stephanie asked, Not to be insensitive, but Im sure youve heard people say, Why dont you just not eat so much?

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Just about everyone would like to lose some weight, but that task is easier said than done. One girl achieved her weight loss goals thanks to hard work, determination, and eating healthy food from local restaurant, Genghis Grill, 7350 W. Bell Road.

Genghis Grill, the largest build your-own stir-fry chain in the country, announced the winner of their second annual Health Kwest, May 9. Melissa Jarosz of Phoenix works as a cosmetologist, and ate at Geghis Grill everyday to help stay on the healthy track. Jarosz won the $10,000 first prize of the national competition by losing 46 lbs. or 25.6 percent of her body weight. The team at Genghis Grill presented Jarosz with her check in front of her family and friends.

During the competition, approximately 86 contestants representing locations of Genghis Grill from around the country dedicated themselves for 60 days by eating one meal per day at Genghis Grill. Contestants then shared their journey online blogging about their-day-to-day progress, while also utilizing social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to gain popularity. The public also participated in each contestant's journey by voting for their favorite. Jarosz won based on a percentage of weight lost, amount of social media activity, and the most public votes.

Melissa accepted her check in front of her family, friends, media crews and Genghis Grill staff as she tearfully thanked everyone who helped her through her weight loss transformation. She thanked the staff at the restaurant for offering her words of encouragement each day she came in for her meal.

Of course I will keep coming back to eat here, even though the competition is over, she said with a smile. The food is really good and they offer so many easy and healthy choices at a great price.

Jarosz said her favorite thing to order at the restaurant was chicken and broccoli. Melissa, who now works out frequently, said she wishes to use the prize money to pursue a career as a yoga instructor.

Genghis Grill has quickly become well-known for its fresh, hot, and healthy food, and for its style of fun service. It offers a dinning option for everyone along, with an array of recipes to choose from the food bar, where anyone can build their own bowl. Currently there are 86 locations in 20 states nationwide. For more information about Genghis Grill, visit http://www.genghisgrill.com or call 623-334-2695. To see Melissas journey online, visit http://www.gghealthkwest.com/.

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Name: Tammy Garcia Age: 29 Height: 5'5" Before Weight: 204 pounds

How I Gained It: I was never really a thin person, but I grew up doing ballet and other various forms of dance since I was 3 years old, so I was a healthy size up until I graduated from high school. At that point, I quit dancing, started college and I let the freshman 15 get to me. But it didn't stop there. I kept gaining weight through my time in college, and graduated at about 155 pounds. Once I graduated from undergrad, I moved away from home. That was the first time I was required to do all my own shopping and cooking, and it did not go well. Have you ever noticed that the foods on sale are the unhealthy ones? Chips, sugary cereals, cookies, bagels -- I got caught in that trap. I got caught in the "I'm too busy to cook between work during the day and school at night, so I'll just have fast food" mentality.

After four years of eating unhealthy and focusing more on work and grad school studies than on making sure I was healthy, I had allowed myself to get to over 200 pounds. Only once did I even try to lose weight. In 2009, when I couldn't fit into a bridesmaid dress I had just ordered about two months before, I knew I needed to do something about it. I tried a fad diet plan I was recommended. It worked in the short term, and I lost almost 30 pounds and ended up having the dress taken in for the wedding. But then I moved to a small, backwoods town. I stopped the fad diet, and I allowed those excuses to be in charge again. It was back to fast food and making excuses that it was "too hard" to find the healthy foods in a small southern town that didn't believe in eating healthy. So that weight came right back on in a matter of a few months.

Breaking Point: My breaking point came in August of 2010 when it was time for me to buy some new pants. My work pants were old and they were getting kind of tight so I went shopping for some new ones. But I couldn't fit into a size 14, and I struggled to fit in a size 16. I refused to buy pants that were a size 16 or bigger. It would have been the biggest size I would have ever bought and I just couldn't allow myself to do it. I had simply had enough of being big. I had enough of being unhealthy. I wanted something better for myself. I knew that I had lost weight before, so I was sure I could do it again.

How I Lost It: I had family coming into town in about two months and so I created an eight-week challenge for myself. It was "Operation Make Pants Not Fit in a Good Way in Eight Weeks." I realized this time that I didn't want a gimmicky fad diet. I wanted something that I would be able to maintain for the rest of my life. I wanted to really learn how to live healthy instead of relying on some sort of pre-packaged nonsense that wouldn't really teach me how to eat in the real world.

I knew the best way to do that would be to cut out fast food, cook healthy meals at home and start exercising. I went to the bookstore to buy some healthy food cookbooks, hit Amazon.com to buy some workout videos and the sporting goods store for some exercise clothing. I joined the site Livestrong.com to track my calories and joined a group challenge.

At first, I only did cardio (I didn't have a gym membership, I had my workout videos and an elliptical machine at home, but no weights). By the time my family came into town, I was able to buy a size 12 pair of pants, and I had lost around 20 pounds. I was proud, but I knew there was a long way to go. So I kept at it, adding in weight training with a nice little set of weights my husband bought for me and learning how to make more and more healthy meals using fresh ingredients. Now, I sit down with my husband every Sunday and we plan out our meals for the week, and then hit the grocery store together. When we plan vacations, we make them active vacations where we can go hiking in the mountains, for example. It makes it so much easier being in this new lifestyle journey together.

I've been maintaining my current weight for almost a year now, but I've worked on getting stronger. I'm always challenging myself to lift more weight or go one more rep when I'm weight training. I've done the Insanity program and I throw in those workouts on my cardio days and it's still a challenge. I'm always pushing myself to go further, harder and longer.

The biggest realization I've had, and why I've been able to maintain this time around, is that I've realized there is no "easy" way to lose weight. There's no magic pill, no magic "diet," nothing like that. It's a matter of working out, staying active and eating healthy. It really is a lifestyle, not something you do for a little bit and then go back to what you were doing before. It is simple, but it takes dedication and commitment to make the changes that are necessary. It takes time and effort. But the rewards are more than worth it. I've gone from not being able to fit into a size 14 to wearing a size 0 or 2. I am happier, more positive, less sick, in pain less and I just feel better all around.

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Weight Loss Success: Tammy Garcia Ditched The Fad Diets And Lost Nearly 80 Pounds

In an age of long commutes, late sports practices, endless workdays and 24/7 television programming, the image of Mom hanging up her dish towel at 7 p.m. and declaring "the kitchen is closed" seems a quaint relic of an earlier era.

It also harks back to a thinner America. And that may be no coincidence.

A new study, conducted on mice, hints at an unexpected contributor to the nation's epidemic of obesity and, if later human studies bear it out, a possible way to have our cake and eat it too, with less risk of weight gain and the diseases that come with it.

Just eat your cake or better yet, an apple earlier. Then wait 16 hours, until breakfast the next morning, to eat again.

"We have to come up with something that is a simple alternative to calorie counting," said Satchidananda Panda, a regulatory biologist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla who led the study published online Thursday by the journal Cell Metabolism.

Panda and his team put groups of mice on different eating regimens for 100 days. Animals in two of the groups dined on high-fat, high-calorie chow. Half of them were allowed to eat whenever they wanted, and nibbled on and off throughout the night and day. The other mice had access to food only for eight hours at night, when they were most active.

In human terms, this would be rough: No ice cream while watching "Glee." No second glass of wine while talking things over with the spouse. Not even a late-night glass of warm milk.

The difference was astonishing. Even though they ate a high-fat diet, the mice who wrapped up their eating day early and were forced to fast for 16 hours were lean almost as lean as mice in a control group who ate regular chow. But the mice who noshed on high-fat chow around the clock became obese, even though they consumed the same amount of fat and calories as their counterparts on the time-restricted diet.

Extra weight wasn't their only problem. The obese mice developed high cholesterol, high blood sugar, fatty liver disease and metabolic problems. The mice who ate fatty food but were forced to fast showed hardly any signs of inflammation or liver disease, and their cholesterol and blood sugar levels were virtually indistinguishable from those of mice who ate regular chow. When put on an exercise wheel, they showed the most endurance and the best motor control of all the animals in the study.

The data suggest that the stomach, the brain and the body's digestive machinery need to take a break from managing incoming fuel; otherwise, we may be working ourselves into a state of metabolic exhaustion. When combined with high-calorie, high-fat diets, the result is weight gain, a liver clogged with fat, accumulation of cholesterol in the arteries and unused glucose in the blood.

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By Joe Palazzolo

A battle of the anti-bulge is underway in Texas, where U.K. weight loss company Slimming World is suing rival Weight Watchers to protect itsmarketingclaims that its diet is better.

Slimming World, which has been around from more than 40 years, bills itself as the U.K.s top weight loss organization and its largest. The company first entered the U.S. in 2010, marketing itselfasan easier-to-follow, more scientifically advancedservice than New York-based Weight Watchers.

Weight Watchers sent an April 11 letter to Slimming World accusing the company of making false representations about its services and threatening to sue if it didnt retract them, according toSlimming World, which responded to the threat by filing a lawsuitFriday in federal district court in Sherman, Texas. (Slimming Worlds U.S. unit is based in nearbyLewisville.)

The lawsuit seeks to block legal action by Weight Watchers by having a federal judge declare its marketing statements true.

Rather than requiring members to count points or calories, Slimming World allows members to eat all they want of certain categories of healthy foods. The diet steers members tofoods low in energy density, which provide fewer calories per gram than foods with higher energy density, meaning you can eat a larger portion for the same amount of calories.The complaint describes Weight Watcherss point-controlled dieting as old fashioned.

A spokeswoman for Slimming World declined to comment, saying the company would let the complaint speak for itself. Weight Watchers didnt immediately respond to a request for comment.

A Weight Watchers spokeswoman said that lawsuit waswithout merit and that the company intends to vigorously contest it.

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