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" Our next -- and by the motto anything is possible as long as you're willing to work for -- and she has a good reason Josie Draper is one of the cover girls. For people magazine happier side issue she's here now a 120 pounds lighter. And this is amazing twenty dress sizes smaller is that yes let's. Well Jose I read that you started gaining weight when your husband was in grad school is really kind of out of convenience it felt like -- happened overnight and -- did NCAA and then there. Yeah I see myself. But the looking back today it was over two years on my husband was in grad school. Oh during that time is that while he was gone at school that's when I was hanging out at home eating and nobody was watching. So -- meaning a lot of fast food -- daughter rang every inning then yes I was going to start buying baked chips because they're help they. I can eat the whole bag in and sitting and so what was the turning point or was returning when when you just said I've got to lose the weight yet and it was right when my husband had graduated. And we took a family trip to Hawaii. And I did he gets you have as much by an average just out of -- tired. Everything I was eating -- gave me heartburn it was very miserable -- And so I just figured allowed you know maybe just my body's going to changes I'm getting older found excuses. And I that I just realized that something has to be done I want the doctors and I got this scale and whom to 48. So a couple months later on -- on more weight sense behind. I knew that I needed to make change -- you telling me earlier too that you decided to make that teens just a few days before Thanksgiving I did -- a lot of people does that add them on time I'm not trying to -- exactly and I I didn't read surge because I wanted something fast I mean reluctance is surgery. It was too expensive I just I knew there had to be something before there. I'm so I went online -- found cookie diet dot com what doctor -- cookie diet -- read his website and it said you know you eat six cookies today. Suppresses your appetite and that's what I needed and it is what you have in your and it is how it is it's are any special cookies delinquent what's the difference between them because otherwise I'm gonna go get -- house yeah. Witty it's sixty he's gonna pack -- get seven packs in one box for the week. -- you eat one cookie you followed up with eight ounces of water and that could expand your stomach making -- yes so when I first started it. I decided that I am going to be tempted I'm going to want to snack but I'm going to need to get past it and so I decided start Monday before Thanksgiving. And I think -- I can get to the holidays without giving -- yeah. You'll be -- I'll be tempted do you still eat the cookies and I on the diet yeah. Yes now I am I eat a little more in my diet there's times probable outbreak an occasion and you know maybe have a couple bites of a piece of cake right. It's not I know how to control it but now I know about when I do you eat actually I need to work out so -- just gonna say it's not just the cookies what I would you do the work out and dwelling on the diet and this is what sold me. On the diet is you don't -- outfit you're not supposed to work out because you're taking in fewer calories. A lot less calories and so you don't work out when you're done and you're ready to maintain -- boom that's when you start working out so from November I was pushing the size 24. By march I was in a size six that's I started working out and not that it's you know -- too -- now and I'm just maintaining that. I need that I need some cookies I don't think anybody you know there are good there they don't taste weird evidently the weird aftertaste -- their very good and they are feeling he'd. I have to force myself to eat all six before dinner the moon because I started I was only eating for. Per day because that's -- Iowa when you look great and I yeah have you -- did she did to you you look like -- really happened is well and happy how -- heartburn and read it. Okay it's a good day -- they."

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