Summer read: How one woman lost 52kg in two years 25 Dec, 2020 07:00 PM 5 minutes to read There was once a dress that hung from Julia Skudders' door. For about two years the dress hung there waiting to be worn - but Skudder was waiting to lose a couple of kilograms. Last week she tried it on but it is far too big after the Rotorua woman lost 52kg in two years. Fifteen people from the Lakes District Health Board area have laid on the operating table in the past three years for bariatric surgery. Skudder was not one of them. However, she did have a gastric band of some sorts p...