What you gain when you lose a lot of weight

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It’s almost impossible to count all of the ways life changes after you lose weight, and even more difficult to predict them before you lose the weight. If you’ve always been substantially overweight to a degree that concerned your doctor, then your weight has been influencing how you experience life. People can’t help it—they treat you differently based on your appearance. And the way people treat you begins to affect the lens through which you see the world. Significant excess weight can be like this semi-impermeable wall that surrounds you and stands in your way of fully experiencing the world. Only when you lose it, do you realize that it was there. While your doctor may pressure you to lose weight for reasons like heart disease and high cholesterol, he may not prepare you for the other changes that will occur. Here is what you gain when you lose a lot of weight.

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Excitement over seeing your family

You no longer fear the disappointed look on your family’s face that they used to get when they hadn’t seen you for a while, and discovered you still hadn’t lost weight. You don’t ever need to see that face again. Now, you just get to look forward to spending time with family.