Diane's 62 Pounds Down: See How She Did It :

Diane H. is not too proud to admit she was scared. She had no idea why her body began breaking out in hives or why at times she could hardly walk. Determined to get to the bottom of her health troubles, she put her detective skills to work and began investigating her habits. It didn't take long for the 208-lb. New Yorker to put her clues together and zone in on the area that was causing the raucous -- her diet. In this eDiets exclusive, Diane, who now weighs 146 pounds, takes us step by step through her personal health case and shares her experience with eDiets and what it took to get to where she is today.

"It was a scary few months. I didn't know why it was happening. I thought it was bugs, environment or something. Then I started becoming aware of the times it got really bad," explains Diane. "I’d drive into work after eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and once I arrived I’d hardly be able to walk. Something told me to just start paying attention to what I was eating. I started looking at the ingredients of things and began doing a sort of process of elimination strategy."

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Sherlock Holmes could learn a thing or two from Detective Diane. In order to track down the culprit foods, she made all foods a suspect. From fresh fruits and veggies to greasy pizza and packaged cookies no food was innocent until they had passed her thorough investigation.

"I took everything out of my diet for 24 hours to clean my system. Then I began introducing one item back at a time. For example, a piece of bread, I would try that and wait about four hours. If I didn't get a reaction within four hours then I knew it was something good," she says. "When I was completely sure of that food I’d try something new."

After a few weeks of her on-going investigation she finally began pinpointing many of the problem foods. The trouble was her body began to pay the price. The pounds began to shed and while she welcomed the weight loss, she knew it was happening in an unhealthy way.

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