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This week, a coworker asked me if I have lost weight.\u00a0 I laughed and said “Nope.”\u00a0 She commented that my face looked thinner.<\/p>\n

I’m forever fighting the battle of the bulge.\u00a0 I have since I was a kid.\u00a0 And essentially, since January 1 of this year, I have lost maybe 2 pounds.\u00a0 Though I’ve not been on the scale since I got back from Vegas, so that might be inaccurate.<\/p>\n

People look at me and say “But you eat well and you exercise like a fiend.”<\/p>\n

I try anyway.\u00a0 But the pounds stay on.\u00a0 I’m working on improving my diet even more and sticking to my workout schedule and hoping that helps.\u00a0 It’s less about the number on the scale and how my clothes fit.\u00a0 Mainly I’m concerned with the spare tire that is developing around my waistline.\u00a0 Belly fat is the type of fat said to cause the most health problems, so I need to work to get it off.<\/p>\n

My parents are relatively healthy, but weight issues and diabetes run in our extended family.\u00a0 And it just gets harder to get the weight off the older I get.<\/p>\n

So even though I’m not seeing it on the scale and haven’t personally noticed it in my clothes, apparently someone thinks I’m looking thinner.\u00a0 Now if only those pounds would come off in my love handles, things would be great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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