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to be in to a size 12 by my one year anniversary

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be healthy....surgery will help knees, back and glucose levels

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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
Before menopause I never really struggled with my weight. If I needed to lose weight, dieting with Atkins or just cutting back would work and I could usually drop the weight fairly quickly. However, upon entering pari-menopause at about age 45 everything changed. My fat distribution changed (I had back fat for the first time ever). Menopause was long and worse than puberty for me. Finally after seven years the docs got my hormones settled and I was able to lose a good deal of the 70 lbs. I had gained. I dieted and was truly conscientious about exercise and food for the next seven years. Then in 2007 I quit smoking and within 3 years all of the weight I had lost plus some came back. It was a dreadful three plus years. My daughter had Bariatric...
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  • Comment by amelzon on 10/5/11 5:23 pm
    hope all went well with your surgery!! C:
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Was so surprised by the weight drop
on May 16, 2012 11:09 am
For those of you who read my posts, you know that I have been lamenting my slow weight loss.  I really believe it has a lot to do with my age, and for a while I think it had to do with me not drinking the amounts of water I am supposed to drink. 

I've had a super stressful couple of weeks at work and was not feeling particularly good about hoping on the scale this morning....fearing that the stress would have been slowing me down even more.  Plus, I wasn't feeling as though I was losing.  Well, the Universe works in mysterious ways.....I was down six pounds in 12 days.  I almost fell off of the scale. 

The past two weekends I have done loads of yardwork and I think I get a great workout from that.  And, on Monday I was at Curves, and that always helps burn a couple of hundred calories.  So, I think the exercise may have had a lot to do with the sudden drop.  Before I might only drop a couple of pounds in a month and to lose 6 in two weeks is just incredible to me.

So, I'm still stressing about work, but I'm happy with the weight loss and that means a lot. 
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