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Fifty and Fat

I'm turning 50 and I weight 3 times that in pounds.  Great.  How does one get here.  I was always extremely thin in my younger years 100 lbs or so.  I started gaining weight in my early 20s, but pretty slow going.  When I was 28, I was 135 lbs and had gallstones with surgery to remove and that was the first diet I ever went on.  I was told to eat a no fat diet and lost 15 pounds pretty rapidly.   Somehow I got up to 160 lbs for most of my thirties.  Which at the time I thought was outrageously fat.  It wasn't until I started trying to have children at 38 that my weight went up significantly.  I quickly went up to 180 while I was trying IVF, as the process was so awful.  And as strange as it seems, I thought if I was overweight, I would know what it was like to be pregnant.   Going from 180 to 250 was during my 40s and was a pretty straight forward progression upwards.  I went on many diets, Weight Watchers, Jenny...