This kind of loss is really a gain

Call her the biggest loser, a fraction of her former self or whatever else, but Linda Hasenstein casts a far smaller shadow these days.

Eighteen months after undergoing gastric bypass surgery, the 61-year-old Sheboygan woman has dropped from 309 to 186 pounds. The change has liberated her from Type 2 diabetes and depression and launched a new lifestyle that once seemed out of reach. Click here for full article.