Living with Osteoarthritis: Making Those Weight Loss Goals?

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As you know, if you have osteoarthritis, one of the big favors you can do for your body is to get the pressure off your joints. For every one pound of weight you remove, you remove four pounds of pressure. Shortly before my arthritis diagnosis, I had decided that I was going to be very live and let live about my weight. After my diagnosis, I decided that if there were ways to hurt less, I was going to take them on.

So, where are we at, then, with weight loss? The lowest amount I managed to reach just before the holidays was 211.6, which was 11.4 pounds lighter than this time last year. Then, the holidays. For a variety of reasons, I wasn't as diligent about diet or exercise, so I am now at 215.8, an obvious gain of around 4.2 pounds. On December 31st, I was at 214.3. That means overall last year, I netted a loss of 8.7 pounds.

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Change takes a lot of time and effort.

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