Laura’s Treatment

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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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Having been through so many diets, Laura say’s “being in a support group with a registered dietician that it really is pretty scientific. If you know how many calories your body burns while at rest, and if you know how many calories you're given to eat in a day it's more about what I can do versus what I can't do. I learned that it wasn't a matter of that I couldn't have my favorite foods.  I just needed to learn how to make those foods in a different way or plan to have whatever it was that I wanted.” Exercise has always been a big part of Laura’s like but she “learned along the way that you can't just exercise and not eat right, and you can't just eat right and not exercise.”

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