Laura’s Discovery

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Laura is a 51 year-old married woman with two busy teenagers. Weight became a problem in for her in college and continued to be an issue for the next 30 years. While Laura has lost over 50 pounds naturally through diet and exercise, she emphasizes the importance of weight-loss support groups to achieve your goal, “It didn’t really matter that I had lost the weight what I call ‘the old-fashioned way’ versus somebody that had surgical weight-loss…it’s still weight loss. The same struggles that they’re going through, I may be going through”. She notes that technology has made it easy to keep journals with apps that help her record her daily caloric intake.

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ContributorLaura, 51Read Full Bio

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Laura is a 51 year-old married woman with two busy teenagers. Weight became a problem in for her in college and continued to be an issue for the next 30 years. While Laura has lost over 50 pounds naturally through diet and exercise, she emphasizes the importance of weight-loss support groups to achieve your goal, “It didn’t really matter that I had lost the weight what I call ‘the old-fashioned way’ versus somebody that had surgical weight-loss…it’s still weight loss. The same struggles that they’re going through, I may be going through”. She notes that technology has made it easy to keep journals with apps that help her record her daily caloric intake.

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Laura has lost and kept off 50 pounds by doing it the old-fashion way. While not going the surgical route, Laura is a big proponent of joining a weigh loss support group. She say’s food was always a coping mechanism for her. After an injury prevented her from exercising. Laura’s weight had grown to 212 pounds. After that she marched herself into a hospital weight loss center and never looked back.

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