Divorce and weight loss

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Registered: 01-04-2000
Divorce and weight loss
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Sat, 09-02-2006 - 7:47pm
Has anyone else noticed that divorce causes weight loss? I have lost 20 lbs that wouldnt go away until now. STBX has lossed weight too. I wonder if it is a common? Just a random thought. I get these the closer it gets to D date. 24 more days. Hope you all are having a good Labor Day weekend!
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Registered: 08-17-2001
Sat, 09-02-2006 - 8:37pm
Sheesh! I WISH I were you!!! When I separated, I was finally able to eat and gained about 15 pounds. Eating with XH actually still makes me sick to this day so I eat very little when forced to have lunch with him. But I'm so content with life now that I eat, eat, eat!!!

~calla~  mom to rosie and gracie

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Registered: 12-29-2003
Sun, 09-03-2006 - 8:26am

Yes...I lost about 40 lbs or in reality about 200 lbs if you count ex's dead weight! I told my friends it was a combination of a broken heart because ex turned out to be a not so nice guy and terror. I was scared to death I wouldn't be able to make it on my own. About 6 months later I got my first promotion at my job (hadn't worked in over 12 years) and a nice pay raise. Next thing I know those 40 lbs were coming back and I couldn't stop em!

Kelly

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Registered: 04-02-2003
Sun, 09-03-2006 - 9:05am
i wish!! i am only now loing weight, but this is three years after we separated,two years after we divorced officially....
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Registered: 08-09-2006
Sun, 09-03-2006 - 2:51pm
I'm not sure if the 10 pounds I've lost is due to the impending divorce, or due to that fact that part of my wake up call and decision to end the marriage was about the fact that I'd let myself gain 20 pounds in a year. Maybe a little of both.
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Registered: 02-14-2005
Mon, 09-04-2006 - 10:04am

Just after my Xh and i separated and i moved out of our house into a tiny apartment... i just couldn't eat... became worse when he said he wanted a divorce... when i stress i don't eat... so i lost 12 pounds and at 5' 6" and initially 122 pounds i looked like he!!... but 19 months later i have put it back on... plus some... and just the other day a bunch of guys i work with told me i look much better with some "junk in my trunk!"... LOL...no there wasn't any sexual harassment...i've just worked with most of them for 10+ years... and my BF likes the way i look... so i try and eat healthy, exercise... but i never want to be that skinny again!!!

Ali

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Registered: 05-27-2006
Mon, 09-04-2006 - 1:46pm
I lost 60 lbs....I tried to though and I am still working on that last 30. Funny enough...my X got married in March(to a woman with 3 kids by 2 different dads, we have 2 DD's ourselves) and since our divorce 2 years ago, I think he has gained about 30. hehehehehehe!! That's awful, I shouldn't laugh because he has gained weight!! : )
It is just ironic because I was so miserable in our marriage and he would always say to me, "go work out, be happy with yourself...blah, blah, blah..." He would always be working out...trying to stay fit....all I have to say is Karma is a b****!!!
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