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Shannon Svingen-Jones finished a 10-km run last summer and — as always — jumped on the scales: still 245 pounds.

“I wanted to cry. I said to my husband, ‘That’s it. I want weight-loss surgery.’ “

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After a battery of tests to see if Svingen-Jones was a candidate for bariatric surgery, her doctor cheerfully delivered the news — “You don’t need it because you’re healthier than a lot of thin people.”

“But look at me,” Svingen-Jones remembers saying. “Just look at me.”

When a friend later asked her if she could feel healthy in the body she had, the answer was a swift no. “Society teaches us that unless we’re skinny, we’re losers.

“Then I realized I’ll never look the way they’re telling me I should look. For the amount of activity that I do, it’s genetically impossible.”

Thus, FabUplus magazine was born. Its concept is to show plus-sized women as active people with fulfilling lives who don’t march solely to the insistent drum beat of dieting.