“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.
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.”
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
