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Weighing 640 pounds, wearing 10X shirts and with a 70-inch waist, this New Yorker was told by doctors he would likely be dead within 12 months. So he made a plan.
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Ernesto Suncar, father of three, underwent gastric bypass surgery - and has shed more than two-thirds of his former self.
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"I want people to feel inspired when they look at me," says the Hell's Kitchen resident, who's down to 210 pounds.
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The business management student says his body ballooned after he came to the U.S. from his native Dominican Republic at the age 7.
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His love of chow didn't help. He would gorge himself on Spanish-style fried pork chops, rice and plantains, McDonald's, pizza and pasta. At his heaviest, the 6-foot-2 food junkie tipped the scales at 640 pounds.
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The turning point came when chronic breathing difficulties and the immense strain on his heart threatened to kill him.
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"The doctor said, if I carried on as I was, I would be dead in a year," Suncar says. Dr. Elliot Goodman, chief of bariatric surgery at Beth Israel Medical Center, performed the gastric bypass.
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There were minor complications, but this winter, after following a nutritious eating plan and increasing his fitness at the gym, Suncar has reached - and maintained - a healthy weight.
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"I feel reborn," he says. "These days I can cycle along the Hudson River, play with my kids and this summer, I'm planning on taking a flight. Before, I couldn't have fit in an airline seat."
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