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• What are the biggest challenges to regular exercise and a healthy diet that you face?  How are these challenges going to change for you over the next five years?

The challenges for regular exercise and going on a diet for me is the determination. I go through looking at myself everyday saying I need to do it and I never do. I know that sounds bad but I have people around me as well who enable me to stay the way I am. I ask my friend if he wants to exercise with me three times a week and he always says oh will start on Monday. That phrase has been said in my family too and then Monday comes around and it never happens. I've been learning just to start and finish on my own because I need to exercise and eat properly for myself. I already let 4 years slip by me pretty fast and I'm not going to let the next five years pass. I am currently on an exercise plan and I'm figuring out the eating plan though. It is really hard with temptations around me on a regular basis and someone who is always wanting to eat out.

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My aunt is someone who is going through menopause. She gets really emotional and always has hot flashes and constantly is in a bad mood. She started taking hormone pills a few years ago and her moods have gotten better. She used to tell me about her discomfort and she was the youngest one of her sisters who got had it early because she was around 35 when she got menopause. Cecile told me that she get hot all of a sudden and sometimes she has cramps.