"I go out and think: 'Oh no, do I have to really go to that shop, do I really need a new skirt, do I really have to, '" she says.

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"When I turned 40, I looked down at the scale and thought, 'Oh my, I must really do something about this, ' " the Herndon, Virginia, woman says.

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Oh and please tell me how your austerity is really necessary while you know as well as I do the republican plan is more contingent upon growth than any other factor.

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