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Julian Palumbo
6 min readApr 27, 2022

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white wedding dress on dress form
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It was April 2nd, 2016, my 5th wedding anniversary. For months ahead of our special day, I dieted and exercised my little heart out. My goal was to come down the stairs in my wedding gown and wow my husband.

As the day grew closer it was obvious I wasn’t going to make it. I was really sad about that. I finally admitted to myself I had better go out and find a suitable dress for my middle-aged body with the prominent tummy.

The waist of my beautiful wedding gown was twenty-five inches. I was far from that now. And I was devastated. Only 5 years later, at fifty-nine years old, I felt as though I had lost control of my body. In the past, I had always been able to drop 5, even 10 pounds of body fat in a few months. This time? Nothing! I felt a little panic. What was happening to me? I had always been able to control my body before.

I bought a pretty, but shapeless white dress to wear to our celebration dinner. My husband made a big fuss about how wonderful I looked. He…

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