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[quote=Anonymous]My entire life I've had to watch what I eat carefully, work out regularly, to maintain a normal BMI. While this lead to disordered eating in my teens/20s, I've been healthy (if careful) since then and have been able to maintain a general weight of 118-123 at 5'2" and have worn the same size for year (I'm 52 btw).  It seemed to be an easy setpoint, although I do not have a fast metabolism (had it measured and it is l15% lower than expected for my age/muscle mass) so its even weirder to drop weight.  I got on the scale this morning and I"m 113, which is a number I haven't seen in 25 years.

On the one hand, that's still a healthy weight at my height I dont look thin even except my legs look scrawny.  On the other I'm now freaked out about why... I noticed definitely have not had much of an appetite the past few months--I generally try to have a protein shake or a half turkey avocado sandwich around 11/noon and I eat some dinner with the family, but there have been times lately where I basically have a yogurt and strawberries at 5/6 pm and am done. Or, like, I goto a reception and after a few sips of wine and one piece of cheese I dont want more--that never happens to me. I know I have lost some muscle mass due  (recent knee surgery and rehab that has kept me away from my normal exercise routine) so maybe that's it but wondering whether I should get back to the doctor--i had labs recently and was flagged for low levels of certain things (ferritin, zinc, alk phosphate) so I'm due for a checkup. I had a colonoscopy a year ago (I have them every.3 years due to polpys, family history, gastric issues and genetic risk), but now I'm freaked out about things like ovarian or pancreatic cancer.  At the same time I dont want to seem like a crazy hypochondriac and maybe this just happens with age?

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