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Mum reveals diet secret that helped her lose 63kg

Be inspired by Julie’s staggering weight loss - by Josh Saunders
  • 15 Nov 2018

A mum has revealed the diet secret that helped her shed a staggering 63kg.

Julie Marchak, 44, was diagnosed with sleep apnea three years ago after constantly feeling exhausted despite sleeping for up to nine hours a night.

Fearing the problems serious health problems that can be brought out on by the breathing disorder including an increased risk of a heart attack, diabetes and more, she knew she had to change.

The mum-of-three weighed 130kg giving her a BMI of 40, which put her into the highest level of obesity.

She switched her high calorie diet for an Isagenix programme, consuming two protein shakes, a healthy meal and healthy snacks.

Within a month she lost 9kg and now she’s dropped more than half her body weight, as well as ten dress sizes.

Now weighing a slender 64kg she was a finalist in a body transformation challenges and has qualified for the World Beauty Fitness and Fashion Show.

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“Before I had one foot in the grave, if that wasn’t a wake-up call I don’t know what else was,” Julie, from Victoria, Canada, said.

“My husband says when he sees before photos of my back you can see how much my shape has changed.

“He described it as looking like a caterpillar with lots of rolls and no ident of a waist because my stomach stuck out really far.

“I had no bottom, I was kind of rectangular, now I’m a shapely beautiful butterfly.

“My husband calls me ‘hot Julie’, he is just really amazed, he loved me big and loves me small, but thinks I’m really hot now.

“He feels like he married two different women.

“I always felt beautiful inside but now the outside reflects that too.”

Julie was overweight since childhood and remembers being mocked for her larger clothing and taking salads to school.

She would regularly lose weight, which she would then put back on and then some.

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Her cousin told her about Isagenix and encouraged her to try to 30-day trial – within a month she had lost 9kg.

Julie said: “She was looking a lot leaner and more muscle without exercising other than walking.

“It felt like the weight was falling off me, every day I woke up the scale was going down.”

Julie was announced a finalist of the Isagenix IsaBody Challenge earlier this year, celebrating her remarkable transformation.

Her newfound life has led her to run her first 10k and even inspired husband Murray, 47, to lost 31kg.

Julie said: “To be selected as a finalist was incredible, it was a huge challenge with over 46,000 submissions so being chosen was amazing and still to this day feels surreal.

“Previously for photographs I would hide by putting my children in front of me so you could see nothing more than my shoulders and face.

“Now I love my reflection when I look in the mirror, I love the confidence I see and I’ve found I’m looking people in the eye a lot more and smiling.”

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DIET BEFORE

BREAKFAST – XL flavoured creamed coffee and fast food breakfast sandwich or nothing

SNACKS – nuts and candy, coffee, muffin

LUNCH – leftovers, once a week Thai food - chicken curry with rice and spring rolls

SNACKS – granola bar, cookies, cheese and crackers, coffee cream and sugar

DINNER – hamburgers, noodle casseroles, pizza, beef Burritos DESSERT – ice cream, diet pop

DIET AFTER

BREAKFAST – Isalean Protein Shake

SNACKS – apple/pear or berries with nuts or Greek yogurt, coffee with almond milk

LUNCH – Isalean Protein Shake

SNACKS – veggies, tuna or egg, rice crackers

DINNER – (lean protein) chicken beast, (health carbs) sweet potatoes, wild-grain rice, (veggies) salad with health fat

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Josh Saunders is a writer for Caters News Agency and a regular contributor to New Idea.

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