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At 257 pounds, Dawn was a different person — a person her children
barely remember. She had numerous weight-related health problems, including
high blood pressure, shortness of breath, gastroesophageal reflux disease,
fibromyalgia, arthritic knees, and severe foot pain. Dawn had difficulty
walking, much less enjoying any activities with her children. “I’m
way too young to be feeling so old,” she remembers thinking to
herself.
Dawn had been overweight since childhood, and she’d tried “absolutely
everything” to lose weight. But Dawn’s greatest frustration
was that although she always succeeded at losing the weight, she always
failed at keeping it off — to the point of gaining back a lot more
weight than she’d lost each time.
But that was then. Dawn has since lost 133 pounds with Bariatric Treatment
Centers’ surgically based weight-loss solution. And she’s
keeping it off.
“These days,” she says, “when we thumb through our family
photo albums, my children can’t believe I was ever that heavy.
Sometimes, I have a hard time believing it myself. We’d often stare
at one of the pictures for a while, then just shake our heads in amazement.”
Dawn loves to tell others about her transformation, and she admits that
she can go on and on about how her life has changed for the better.
Sometimes, though, she’ll simply pull out an old photo album, where
she’s reminded that a picture is worth a thousand words.
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