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When I was in my early 30s, I decided I needed a change in my life. I had gotten out of a toxic relationship and moved across the country, from New Jersey to California, but in many ways I still felt like the version of myself I had wanted to leave behind.

I was fearful of everything—of my ex, of starting over with two young children. I had no confidence, was 80 pounds overweight, and felt as if it was too late, like I’d been cheated out of the life I could have had.

The generation of relatives who had come before me had struggled with their weight and their physical health, and I thought that was my destiny in life. But in…

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