Before 205 lbs
After 140 lbs
For years, being active offset 27-year-old Julie Przybyla’s high-fat diet. But the former high school cheerleader from Sacramento, California, fell off the fitness wagon when she entered Purdue University’s graduate program for pharmacology in the fall of 2005. Time-crunched, she relied on convenience foods like frozen pizza. “I never cooked for myself, and I didn’t exercise for almost two years,” she says. As Julie’s course load became heavier, so did her body. Soon, she’d packed 50 pounds onto her 5'9" frame.
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