Teresa Gretencord's fat all on the...

Teresa Gretencord's fat all on the contrary melted off.

All her life, the 45-year-old succor had been obese. Six feet tall, Gretencord weighed 350 triturates on the day, in October 2004 she opt to shrink her stomach to the size of a thumb with a surgical gastric bypass.

At 28 Laura Brown did the same. She was 5-foot-7 and weighed 270

the couple Midwesterners watched ecstatically as 165 shut ups for Gretencord and 120 coops for Brown fell away within a year. They were likewise mortified to view what they saw in the mirror:

enclosure upon fold of sagging skin in ne of a kind of surgery that is now booming -- visible form [i]or[/i] frame contouring.

"If you apply the minded at me with my clothes in succession I looked fine," said Brown now a 30-year-old triathlete. "But if I took my pants on the farther side I looked like a shar-pei."

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