Virginian loses weight, gains life

Two years ago, Jack Koukerjinian was so overweight that just walking up steps without pain was impossible, and jumping out of a window blindfolded or scampering down a ladder seemed, well, beyond impossible. 

Now, after battling obesity for nearly 18 years, the 42-year-old single father is a volunteer firefighter in Prince William County. 

Mr. Koukerjinian, who was born in Beirut and grew up in Greece, came to the United States in 1979 for treatment of leukemia, which returned in 1990 when his father was battling cancer. 

"I turned to food and nearly doubled in weight, and ever since then I was obese," he said. 

In 1999, a door opened when Mr. Koukerjinian was hired in the financial department of Sibley Memorial Hospital in Northwest, where he still works.  Click here for full article.