All my life I have had athletics and then I didn't. I was a skier and loved my bike in the summer. Seven years ago my right knee, that had several operations on for torn this and torn that finally gave up the ghost. It was grinding bone on bone and I could hardly walk. My five foot four frame was all of a sudden carrying close to two hundred pounds on it with little to no activity I had blown right up. I had the right knee replaced, and a year later the other one replaced too. I became a aquafit devotee.

When I was really heavy my stomach fat formed an apron of flesh; it had slipped down off of my abdomen and hung. For years I never really lost the general body shape, but got down into the mid one eighties. The apron of fat and skin has been sitting in front of me for five years. I still have a lot of pain from my left knee...the right one is fine. I have to weigh under one fifty for the sake of my bones, self esteem and mobility.

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Janet