Erik Chopin smiles proudly when people call him a big loser.
Chopin, 36, lost 214 pounds to win NBC's Biggest Loser competition last season and in the process lost a lot of the health problems that accompany obesity.
"I hadn't been seeing a doctor. I was getting zero exercise, and my diet was terrible," Chopin says. "When I got on the show, I had all the health problems you expect at 407 pounds -- high blood pressure, high cholesterol, sleep apnea and high blood sugar."
Still, Chopin says he was "shocked" when he found out that he was developing diabetes.
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"The first thing they told us when we started was that most of us needed to get our blood sugar under control, and if you can't do it with diet and exercise, you take medicine, otherwise you are in for diabetes, heart disease and death, and it doesn't need ...
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