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For 6 years I asked for a seatbelt extender before every flight. In March the attendant brought it to my seat without being asked and I handed it back to her. I'm 57. I had not done anything to deserve that moment. That is what I keep telling people and it is what nobody accepts. My sister in law was in the seat beside me. Hers came off 5 weeks later, and she can explain hers no better than I can explain mine. My name is Ramona. I have worked in the scheduling office of a trucking company for 19 years and I fly twice a year to see my son in Denver. The attendant on that route knows me. It is a small airline and I have asked her for the extender enough times that she stopped waiting for me to ask. She held it out. I said I thought I was all right. She waited while I tried, and then she took it back and said nothing at all, which was kinder than anything she could have said. I sat there for 3 hours doing arithmetic in my head and getting nowhere. The Meno Belly That Arrived Before I Was Ready : I went into perimenopause at 47, which everybody told me was early and nobody told me what to expect from. From 47 to 56 I gained 37 pounds. My waist went from 30 inches to 42. I was not eating more. I have packed the same lunch since my son was in high school. I stopped going to my husband's work functions. I told him I hated small talk. That was not the reason. Here is what my chart said last August: Waist: 42 inches (high risk above 35) Weight: 198 pounds Fasting glucose: 115 (prediabetic) Blood pressure: 140/89 Triglycerides: 211 (elevated) The $3,850 I Spent Between 50 and 56 : - A commercial meal delivery diet, 2 rounds, $1,320. Lost 16 pounds across both and put back 19. - A gym with 12 personal training sessions, $960. Stronger legs, same waist. - Hormone replacement therapy for 14 months, $890. The best thing I did for the hot flashes and it did not move my middle 1 inch. - A metabolism supplement and a fiber protocol, $680 over 2 years. Nothing I could measure. $3,850. My waist went from 42 to 41 for 6 weeks in 2023 and then came back. What My Massage Therapist Said in October : I see a massage therapist for my lower back, which had been carrying that stomach since my son left for Denver. In October she said something to me while I was face down that I could not stop thinking about. "You have been holding your ribs for as long as I have worked on you." Then she sat me up and told me the rest. "I had a client with your back and your stomach. Her naturopath told her the bracing was the stress hormone doing it. Cortisol. It keeps the fat around your organs because it believes you need it. Everyone treats the fat. Nobody treats the bracing." She was wearing a bracelet and she said it takes the alarm down, and when that drops the body stops holding. $65. I have paid her $90 an hour for 9 years to work on a back problem that was really a stomach problem, so $65 did not frighten me. I did not expect it to work. My sister in law Dorothy was in the waiting room. She is 60 and she ordered hers on the drive home. My 17-Week Transformation : I did not change one thing. I have gone back over 17 weeks looking for what I changed and there is nothing there. Week 1 to 4: My lower back stopped aching by 3 in the afternoon. Lost 10 pounds. Waist: 40 inches. Week 5 to 9: The tightness after dinner went, and my back stopped waking me when I turned over. Lost 10 pounds. Waist: 37 inches. Week 10 to 13: A woman I have worked beside for 11 years asked me if everything was all right at home. Lost 9 pounds. Waist: 35 inches. Week 14 to 17: I bought jeans with a button. Lost 8 pounds. Waist: 33 inches. Total: 37 pounds gone. 9 inches off my waist. Then March came and I handed back the extender. What Happened To Dorothy : Dorothy ordered the same afternoon I did and she changed nothing either. She is 3 years older, she is diabetic, and she eats on a schedule her doctor set years ago. At week 5 she called me because her wedding rings had come off over her knuckle for the first time since 2011. Dorothy, 17 weeks in: 30 pounds gone. Waist 40 to 33 inches. Her endocrinologist lowered her metformin in February and asked her, twice, what had changed in her routine. She told him nothing had. He told her he would rather have an explanation than a good result, and that he did not have one. We flew down together again in May and neither of us asked for anything at the gate. She is diabetic and eats on a schedule a doctor wrote for her. I eat what I have packed since 2009. The only thing the 2 of us did the same was put it on. What My Gynecologist Said in April : Dr. Marchetti went through the chart slowly, page by page. Waist: 42 to 33 inches Weight: 198 to 161 Fasting glucose: 115 to 86 Blood pressure: 140/89 to 118/74 Triglycerides: 211 to 152 "I have been watching this waist go up for 9 years," she said. "Cortisol is the stress hormone, and in your case it is a switch that never got flipped back. While it is on, the abdomen is the last place a body will draw from. That is why the middle is the part that never answers to dieting." Then she put the chart down. "I have measured this waist every year since you were 41. I cannot tell you why it chose now." So I Would Like To Know : No pills, no hormones, no injections, no side effects, nothing to remember. You put it on and wear it. That is everything Dorothy and I did. I asked for a seatbelt extender on 12 flights over 6 years. In March I handed one back, and I cannot tell my own son how it happened. 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