Weight Loss Wonder

Issue #2

Weight Loss Wonder

Weight Loss Wonder: Marie Seibel, 66-years-old, Wearing Size Six Jeans

By Molly Murphy B.Sc

Between July and October of 2004--12 weeks--Marie Seibel, then 64-years-old, went from 158 to 128 pounds and lost 27 ¾ inches. That was weight she’d given up ever losing, since she’d tried so many diets and none had worked. Fortunately, she gave it one more attempt. “My sister forwarded me information about the GNS products and I decided to give it one more try,” she says. She started with Slim Seduction diet pills and within a week she’d lost 11 pounds and had more energy than she’d had in years.

“For 40 years I’d tried everything and nothing worked. I felt discouraged and insecure,” says Marie. No more. She’s revitalized her body, her health, and her life. And others are taking notice. “There was one woman in the Slim Body community forum who just said to me, ‘Marie, you are my idol.’ Now wasn’t that just the nicest thing to say?"

Marie deserves the accolades. Even now, two years later, Marie still fits into a size six, a size that she thought she’d never see again after years of sedentary living had added on quite a few extra pounds to her 5’2” frame. “I lost weight at an age when many experts say it’s impossible to change your body.” Marie is living proof that it’s never too late to lose weight and transform your body.

Her life and her health began to shift years before. After being at a desk job for years she got asthma from mold in the office in which she worked. In 1999, she and her husband Bob decided to leave the city for a farm in West Virginia, in hopes that fresh country air would ease Marie’s asthma. Then soon after the move, things took an unforeseen turn. Bob died after a brief illness, and Marie was alone on the farm with only her Persian cat Sassy, and Beagle Peaches to keep her company.

Marie found solace with a new love. Gary, the nephew of a neighbor, used to come and lend a hand to Bob, and after Bob’s passing, he continued to make visits, checking in with Marie, trying to cheer her up as she dealt with her grief. “He said to me about that period in my life, ‘Marie, I couldn’t stand the way you were going down.’”

The friendship between Marie and Gary deepened with time. She appreciated the care he showered upon her, and her three grown children gave their blessings. Then one day, it became official. “He got down on his knees and proposed to me,” she says.

Gary, her new husband, was but one motivation to try a different plan of action to take off some weight. “Gary travels to work and talks about how the young girls talk to him, I say, ‘Gary, those girls are after you,’ and he’d say, 'no they’re not.' But, I thought I’d better get my body in shape.”

Marie had other issues also urging her to action. “My cholesterol was high--230.” But that was before. Now, after dieting and keeping the weight off, the number tells a different story. “The last time I had it checked, it was at 198.”

At her highest weight in 1998, Marie hit the scale at 197 pounds. But after her move to the country, Marie had gradually gotten down to 152 just from increasing her activity level, puttering around doing the daily tasks necessary just to keep up the house and the yard. “I wasn’t just sitting around all day anymore,” explains Marie. That last 30-some pounds were hanging on until she started up with Slim Seduction. After losing those first 11 pounds, she got serious about her food and exercise regimen and started ordering the Slim Body Matrix Shakes.

For her daily diet, Marie followed the recommendations given in the Slim Body Secrets eBook. She switched from three large to five small daily meals. For breakfast, she’d have a Slim Body Matrix Shake (milk chocolate cream is her favorite flavor). For midmorning snack, yogurt with granola; for lunch usually a tossed salad with canned chicken. Her afternoon snack was a handful of almonds and dinner was a modified version of what she’d cooked up for Gary. “He loves everything fried,” she says, but instead she’d modify her cooking methods a bit, in a way that pleased both palates. “I’d bake chicken but then take a piece--I like dark meat, not light--and blot it with paper towels to get off even the smallest bit of fat before I’d eat it.” Along with that she’d have vegetables and maybe a small baked potato.

Occasionally in the evening she’d get hungry, but she found a remedy. “I’d have a big glass of ice water and chew sugarless gum,” she says. “That would take the hunger away immediately.”

The other critical piece of her weight loss success was the GNS supplement, Slim Seduction. Marie followed the recommendations. She’d take Slim Seduction 20 minutes before breakfast and lunch, to help facilitate fat burning.

And she increased her energy output. Marie started to exercise with a beloved companion. “I’d go for walks with my dog Peaches, my little girl. I said to her, ‘C’mon, we both need to lose some weight, so let’s do it.’” At first they didn’t cover much ground only making it about one-tenth of a mile up the first hill near where she lives. Within three weeks they were doing two miles up and two miles back, and the weight was dropping off.

What also kept her going was support. “I’d have weekly calls with Josh and Molly and that helped me so much.” Because no matter how much weight you have to lose, there are times when the pounds just fall off. And there are other phases when you hit a plateau and stall at a particular weight. Those times are frustrating. “Josh just encouraged me to keep trying really hard. I started doing other kinds of exercise. And he also suggested that I exercise in the morning and wait 40 minutes before eating. I started that as soon as I heard it and it really worked.”

Now two years after her amazing weight loss, Marie continues with her enthusiasm for life. She got a job in a drugstore--just because she has so much energy, and so enjoys the company of other people--and the girls she works with are forever asking how she’d made this transformation, how she at 66 could have the body of a woman several decades younger. “I told them about slimbodycoach.com, and about the Slim Body Matrix Shakes and Slim Seduction supplements that helped me get to where I am today. And I told them about how Josh is sending Gary and me on a Caribbean cruise so I can meet the other winners of this years Slim Body Challenge.”

The story of Marie and her loss of 27 ¾ inches and 30 pounds was inspiration enough. These colleagues of Marie, she says, just couldn’t wait to get those shakes and set out on their own weight loss adventure.

So no matter what your age or your background, it is never too late to attain that healthy body you deserve. Marie is living proof that with the right attitude, the right support system, and the right supplement anyone can achieve their goal.