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Sherri Shepherd Lost 30 Pounds By Eliminating This From Her Diet

Sherri Shepherd has always been an open book when it comes to the struggles and the triumphs of her life.

The former The View co-host has shared the details of her tumultuous and litigious marriages, custody disagreements, and now she is sharing the day-to-day lifestyle change she decided to make in order to get her health back on track. Shepherd has been making efforts towards a healthier lifestyle, especially after being diagnosed as prediabetic some years ago. Although she wrote a book in 2013 called Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes (Even If You Don't Have It), she still found herself struggling with her first true love: sugar.

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The comedian revealed earlier this summer that she has officially cut sugar from her diet. Being that sugar is in almost everything, we can imagine that not only is this a difficult tradition but also a major lifestyle change. Sherri is documenting the whole experience on Instagram. The 51-year-old has been gushing about going sugar-free for over 180 days, losing over 30 pounds, and now being able to show her arms and tuck in her shirts—something she never did in the past. In a post earlier this summer, she says that even though she isn't where she wants to be, she feels "AMAZING!" She writes:

"It's been a long journey full of prayer, self-encouragement, wanting food, craving sugar … forgiveness when I fall, cajoling myself into the gym & onto a jump rope…thankful for the love & encouragement along the way of friends & some beautiful people I met on IG … at 168.4 lbs, I am still not where I want to be but I feel AMAZING!"

She says there are days where she wants to "crawl back inside my #peachcobbler but I want to live."

According to the American Diabetes Association, 13.2% of all African Americans aged 20 years or older have diagnosed diabetes. African Americans are also 1.7 times more likely to have diabetes as non Hispanic whites. Type 2 diabetes is also associated with an increased risk for a number of serious, sometimes life-threatening complications, which makes it all the more necessary as a community to find ways to combat this incurable yet preventable diagnosis.

In a 2013 interview with USA Today, Sherri revealed that one of the reasons why she decided to make a real lifestyle change was because of the horror of imagining the loss of a limb or the inability to take care of her son, Jeffrey. She says:

"She said [her doctor] 'Sherri, you love wearing those shoes, don't you?' I said, 'Yes, I do.' She said, 'You won't be wearing them with your foot cut off, because if you keep eating the way you are eating, that's where you're headed.'"

The Trial & Error star recently sat down with Wendy Williams to discuss her sugar-free journey and detailed why it has been such and up and down battle for her. She revealed that the new sugar-free diet was once again inspired by her son Jeffrey and that a conversation with him in the car ultimately forced her to stop numbing herself with sugar and to make a real change. She said:

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"Sometimes you go through stuff and you want to just grab something sweet. Ex-husbands, things like that. And I was doing that and Jeffrey was in the backseat, Wendy, and I was eating something I wasn't supposed to. He said, 'Mommy, if you die, who's going to be my bodyguard?' I said, 'What are you talking about?' 'Who's going to watch me?' And literally I said, 'Sherri, you've got to do something different.'"

We all have our guilty pleasures, but when they start to affect our health and/or well-being, the next course of action is to make a concerted and disciplined change: mind, body and soul. We only get on life and one body: let's treat our bodies like the temples they really are.

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Keep going, Sherri! We're rooting for you!