"I Did It!" Best Before and After Weight-Loss Stories

By Marianne Magno

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Meet real women who lost weight and changed their lives. Here, the finalists of our Best Before and After Story photo contest. Get motivated and inspired so you can be a success story too!

Before: Our Contest Winner: "It Feels Amazing to Be Healthy!"

"I was always saying I would get the weight off 'someday,'" Diana Huffman said. A mom of four kids, Diana reached 220 pounds after the birth of her daughter. She had been putting herself last, which she realized was not fair to her or her children. Just before her 40th birthday, Diana decided "enough was enough."

Diana started hiking again at Squaw Peak, a local mountain she used to hike in her 20s, and vowed to make it to the top "no matter what," she said. "Since then I have been hiking that mountain every week along with running, swimming, biking, aerobics, and eating clean 95 percent of the time."

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