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Changing habits is hard! About 6 years ago, I was majorly stressed by my drug addicted semi-homeless son and lost 50 lbs. For the first 30 I was good with it, wanted to lose weight. But then I hit my goal and kept losing. It got so I couldn't eat and ended up scrawny and very wrinkled and sick. I got my anxiety and stress under much better control, due to adding Buspirone and Cymbalta and felt amazingly better and could eat again! Yay!

Of course, I gained way too much weight back. I love sweets, crave them! So now I've started eliminating things I added like Irish Cream with my coffee, low calorie whole wheat bread vs bakery bread, and ice cream. I've also added prunes for more fiber and switched to organic stevia since my coffee has to be sweetened! I also eliminated red meat except 2x month and no big steaks when I have meat. We eat shrimp and fish weekly. I'm not wanting to get thin, not at 73. I just want to be a healthy weight and with surgery coming up for my shoulder, I know my excercise is going to be very limited and it would be easy to gain even more weight and then my clothes won't fit - so working on being sure that doesn't happen. I

t's not easy to change your diet, but it can be done.