Living the Life
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2023 Arkansas Queen, Donna Dodrill began doing this after she retired in 2013.
What is regular exercise?
The dangerous medical condition that was discovered in Mary Alarid after she lost 125 pounds to reach her goal.
What is being over medicated?
While educated, Esther Manz was not this.
What is a business woman.
The percentage by which the risk of getting diabetes is dropped in people at high risk for diabetes when they lost weight through healthy eating and physical activity.
What is 60%?
Note: This is even higher (71%) in people over 60.
Discrimination based on body size.
What is sizeism or weight stigma?
While this worked for Donna, she didn't feel it was sustainable.
What is the keto diet?
There is relatively little of this being done as to how drastic weight loss effects drug doses.
What is research?
From the start, TOPS was all about providing these to its members.
What are support and education?
Diabetes occurs when this is too high.
What is blood glucose or blood sugar?
Find a primary care provider who views obesity as this rather than a simple lack of will power.
What is a complex medical condition?
Determined to keep the pounds away, Donna understands that maintaining weight loss is this.
What is a lifelong journey?
Even if you drop twenty-five pounds, you may want to do this.
What is ask your doctor if you need to think about your meds?
Esther purposefully set up TOPS so that it could do this without her.
What is continue?
If your body doesn't make enough of this or use it properly, glucose stays in your blood and doesn't reach your cells.
What is insulin?
Something affected when feeling shamed and judged leads to self-isolation and increased loneliness.
What is quality of life?
This is important, no matter what the number on the scale.
What is loving yourself?
Each of these has separate and different effects on the body and how it acts to prescription medicine.
What are weight loss approaches?
Esther Manz wanted TOPS to be governed by a board of directors and a group of these who would have a say on important issues.
Who are voting members, now called delegates?
A condition that about 1 in 3 American adults have.
What is prediabetes?
Weight cycling or the pattern of gaining and losing weight across time, often through strict/extreme dieting.
What is disordered eating?
This is important to losing weight and keeping it off.
What is chapter support?
This is important because the rate at which medications clears your system changes both as your weight comes down and your dosages change.
What is vigilance?
By moving almost half of the original 1952 Articles of Incorporation to the bylaws in 2000, major changes could take place at a regular board of directors meeting with having the vote of these people.
What are the original 1952 Articles of Incorporation?
Note: Recent progress has been made to bring TOPS back to the original concepts to increase member input.
Free to eligible participants, this year-long program managed by the CDC provides the opportunity to work with a lifestyle coach in person or online to build healthy habits.
What is the CDC's National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP)?
When a physician sees you only as your weight or BMI making it harder to build a relationship of trust and respect.
What is inadequate medical care relation to size stigma?