Article: HEALTH & FITNESS - Yo-yo no mo'

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Beckie Oxley was a typical dieter. She'd gain weight. She'd lose it.

Diet pills, appetite suppressants, magazine fads, Atkins, cabbage soup -- you name it. She's tried it.

"I used to feel so disgusted ... I could not even look at myself in the mirror," Beckie said of her yo-yo days. "I remember how I was in a constant state of guilt and at times felt completely hopeless. There was nothing I could do to lose the weight and keep it off."

It's a tale that waxes familiar.

As a child, she said, her father ran a farm, so she played outside a lot and was very active.

"I was ...

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