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Weighing The Risks

This summer, Sherrianne Swartz plans to do something that most people take for granted: ride a roller coaster with her teenage son. It's not fear that has kept Swartz, 36, on the ground for the better part of a decade--but fat. At over 400 pounds, she has been too big to fit into the seat. Until now, that is. Barely 16 months after gastric bypass surgery, which reduced her stomach to the size of a hard-boiled egg, Swartz has shed 185 pounds.

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