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Tired of being overweight, Leigh-Anne Nielsen decided to take action and finally lose pounds–131 to be exact! Vital Stats Name Leigh-Anne Nielsen HomePembroke,Ontario Age 30 Height 5’7″ Job Legal administrator Weight Before 278 Weight After 147 The Gain: Kids can be cruel, as Leigh-Anne Nielsen knows. By her freshman year of high school, she weighed 210 pounds and her peers teased her relentlessly. Nielsen attributes the weight problem she’d had for most of her life to “being genetically ‘blessed’ with chubby thighs, an ever-growing belly, and more than enough junk in my trunk” — that and a typical teenage diet...

  Vitals Elizabeth Potter, 26,West Valley City,UT Occupation JetBlue Airways supervisor Height 5’6″ Time required to reach goal 2 years, 3 months Lesson Learned Find a workout you enjoy. “If I didn’t love cycling, I couldn’t do it for hours a day.” Secret Weapon Her son, Aiden, now 5. “He was my inspiration, and lugging a 25-pound kid in a bike trailer was tougher than any machine at the gym.” Weight Before 255 Weight After 155 The Gain Elizabethwas always chubby, but when she got pregnant in 2004, she hit 225 pounds and developed gestational diabetes. After her son, Aiden,...

  Vitals Elizabeth Potter, 26,West Valley City,UT Occupation JetBlue Airways supervisor Height 5’6″ Time required to reach goal 2 years, 3 months Lesson Learned Find a workout you enjoy. “If I didn’t love cycling, I couldn’t do it for hours a day.” Secret Weapon Her son, Aiden, now 5. “He was my inspiration, and lugging a 25-pound kid in a bike trailer was tougher than any machine at the gym.” Weight Before 255 Weight After 155 The Gain Elizabethwas always chubby, but when she got pregnant in 2004, she hit 225 pounds and developed gestational diabetes. After her son, Aiden,...