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Yes , when milk came in I joked I finally reached puberty …….. temporarily .
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Was still wearing Teen Form bras many months into my first pregnancy. I actually called the 800 number to inquire about nursing bras. The nice customer service lady assured me that I would expand.
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Yar, pregnancy day 1. Woke up with new, enormous bra-busting breasts. Squeezed my new body into my clothes. Went out, ordered a coffee. Threw up at the smell. Then proceeded to grow bigger & bigger boobs as I vomitted round the clock for the next 20 weeks. Ahh.. pregnancy.
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Way,

And pregnancy too. They fill up with milk!
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I had to gain weight to finally grow boobs !
Now I want to lose weight , but you know where the first place that would be !
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The upside and downside of big breasts and implants. At school I was called ‘flatty’. Now I look better than average, and no-one calls me ‘droopy’. You can't win'em all.
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Need,

Yes dry . And my kids paid attention , they learned . I’m surrounded .
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Way,

He sounds like my husband who has a dry-wit sense of humor!
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I have to wonder how much money is spent on plastic surgery.

My younger cousin got a boob job very young! She hated being flat chested.

She had just barely graduated from college when she decided to get implants.

I don’t know what they costs but I know that it isn’t cheap!
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It was payback . He every once in a while pulls a prank on me . Like writing a grocery shopping list totally in Spanish . He did that a couple of times .
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Way,

That’s funny! 😁
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Need,

I remember . DH used to get Sports IIlustrated delivered early in our marriage . A couple of times I hid the swimsuit issue to see if he would ask me if it came in the mail . 😂😂😂
He never did .
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Way,

Remember all of those Sports Illustrated swimsuit covers of the past?

Now, they are changing their image and placing women of all sizes and ages on their swimsuit cover.

It’s about time! Isn’t the average size of a woman a size 14 these days? It certainly isn’t a size 0 wearing a string bikini!

I saw where Gail King is on the cover. She’s almost 70! She was so funny in the interview.

She said that she was going to watch what she ate. They told her, “Oh no, just be yourself!” So she ate a cheeseburger the day before the photo shoot! LOL 😝
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Nacy,

Some seasons are more active than others.

The gulf coast has certainly seen many hurricanes. Sometimes they are back to back in some areas.

Even tropical storms can do a lot of damage. It doesn’t even have to be a full blown hurricane.
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Yeah needs I heard on the news today they are expecting a bad hurricane season, I hope they are wrong 🙏🤞
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New Orleans and the surrounding metro areas has drainage issues.

A while back the city cleaned out drains. You would not believe the amount of Mardi Gras beads that were in there! 😝

Our streets flood with just a heavy downpour. It doesn’t even have to be a hurricane with massive winds and rain coming down.

Streets started flooding in areas that didn’t historically flood. So, flood insurance is a must for certain areas.

Being below sea level is not helpful either. Plus, we receive a fair amount of rainfall each year.
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With the increase in wildfires the insurance companies here are being hit hard and are looking for solutions. I got a notice about a pilot project regarding monitoring properties for fire safety. It makes sense. We are now not in a forest zone, thank goodness, so I will not participate. I can see that they have to do something as they are putting out lots more $$$ than usual due to the wildfires and it's not going to get better.

way - good for you. Found a London Fog trench but only in beige or black. I may buy the black. True London Fog doesn't come in colours I think.

Love the purse colours but how do you keep track changing your purses? I keep the same black one for years., Derek Alexander - lots of places to store things,

need - genetics definitely make a difference. But two of my kids are obese and neither parent is/was. Both their father and I stayed a similar weight for years with a little gain as we got older.
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Way,

My 23andme DNA testing results addresses weight. I do feel like genetics plays a role in our weight.

There are lots of factors that influences our weight. It’s an ongoing struggle for most people.

Menopause was miserable for me. Others don’t experience symptoms that are severe. We are all different.

Hormones in general control so many things.
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Golden .

Buy yourself a new colorful trench coat or blazer , great idea!!!

I’ve taken to colorful purses, as I don’t have to worry about fluctuating weight !!
I’ve had a bright teal , and a light blue , they’ve since worn out .
Now I have a kelly green , and I just bought a lovely lavender for $20.

I find them all on clearance .
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Need.

I was always thin until menopause .
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My brother lived on a bluff , 150 -200 feet above Long Island Sound , and he didn’t live on the edge of the bluff , his house was set back and there were houses in front of his. His insurance was canceled , he had trouble getting new insurance . They said potential flooding . He was so high up , he would never have flooded. They didn’t take the elevation into consideration, just the proximity to shore .
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I do think exercise combined with following a healthy diet works best for weight loss.

A guy in my neighborhood who traveled about 80 percent of the time, had a heart attack due to eating the wrong food, while he was on the road.

He ordered all the wrong food in restaurants. He didn’t exercise at all.

His doctor told him to change his diet and exercise. He started going to the grocery store when he traveled.

He bought ingredients to make healthy salads in his hotel room. He was careful about what he ordered when he went out to eat. He lost weight and is now maintaining a healthy weight.
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Alva, I hate to say it, but I keep seeing places where an ‘insurance drone’ would be fully justified and in the general public’s interest. Places (all with great views) built in dead end cul-de-sacs at the top of hills, or surrounded by trees, or on the edge of a cliff that keeps eroding, or right next to a river with a flood history. They get permission to build because it increases the local government rate base, and reduces legal hassles that come if permission is refused. The claims are totally predictable, and everyone’s insurance premiums rise to pay for it. Eventually, no-one wins and no-one is happy. Insurance companies may be unusual in having the ability and an incentive to say 'no'.
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Could be Margaret ,

And working longer hours at a desk job .
My son has been working ridiculous long hours . Probably stress eating too .

My husband traveled alot for work , eating out did it for him most likely.

Metabolism does start to slow down at 30 as well though. This is why people whose habits don’t change still gain weight .

My mother in law was obese since she was 30 . She dieted and exercised in her late 50’s and up and lost alot. Now she can’t keep weight on , it’s falling off , she’s frail, thin and elderly .

I’ve gained the past year , new asthma meds with a steroid . Hard to get the weight off .
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Not sure about that ‘fat gene’. The guys I saw who ‘blew up’ coming up to 30 had married, given up active sport, and started to eat more.
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Way,

Mom’s doctor kept saying that she wanted her to gain a few pounds.

That wasn’t going to happen though, because mom never ate an entire meal at once.

She would take a bite here and there. She didn’t have a healthy appetite.
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My mother used to say “ Embrace those few extra pounds , you’ll need them if you become very ill “.
It is true in a way , I’ve known people who lost 20 or more pounds during a stint in the hospital .
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My DH is on Trulicity for Type 2 diabetes since December . Has lost 25 lbs . This is the least he has weighed in about 30 years . His family has the fat gene that gets activated at about 30 years old when DH blew up . He was always a thin kid. Thin when we first married too . My son blew up at 30yo as well , too heavy now . The problem is they were so used to eating what they wanted for so long and able to stay thin . Changing the habits is hard .

Insurance has been covering it 100% .
However he recently received a letter that our mail away pharmacy for our RX plan is having trouble getting Trulicity in stock due to shortages .
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Alva,

You’re right. It’s complicated. All of it, insurance issues and how meds affect us.

Mom used to say that meds will help in one area and hurt us in another area. So, there is constant monitoring of how much they affect us.

I spent a fortune when I was going through fertility treatments. Nothing was covered back then by insurance. Not sure if it is now or not. I know that they were pushing for it to be covered.

It was frustrating because someone could get a nose job covered by insurance, by saying that they had a deviated septum, but I couldn’t get coverage for a legitimate medical issues.
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Need, insurance is lovely and all that, but if they start to cover 1,000s of dollar because we can't push away from the table for this, and 1,000s for dementia drugs that aren't proven and have bad side effects eventually insurance will cost so much no one will have it.

In California we are learning that insurance companies can simply throw up their arms and leave. That's what is happening with both Farmers and State Farm. Simply leaving our fire ridden state. They are now sending drones over homes and finding any little thing they can to cancel policies. Some just not renewing. We will soon find our homes uninsured, or insured at enormous cost to all.

There's never an easy answer to anything out there. Everything has "side effects".
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