THE QUESTION THAT SPARKED MARIE’S HEALTH TURNAROUND

During her shows at the Flamingo Las Vegas, Marie meets a lot of women facing the same weight struggles she was facing 10 years ago, and she knows just the advice to give them. “This is what I tell them: ‘Do you want 10 more years of where you are at right now?’” asserts Marie. “That’s literally what flipped the switch for me. I was going through a divorce and my children came to me and said ‘Mom, you’re all we have and you’re not going to be here for us if you don’t do something to take care of yourself.’ I said to myself, Do I want 10 more years of this? No. I want to be here for my family. I want to be here to help them grow.’”

To finally take off the extra 50 pounds she was carrying around, Marie turned to Nutrisystem (for information on the program, visit Nutrisystem.com or try the Nutrisystem 5 Day Turbo Weight Loss Kit available in Walmart stores)—and she’s never looked back. “I look at the past 10 years of my life and there’s no way that I could be doing what I’m doing right now if I still had that 50 pounds on me,” she muses. “I couldn’t do this show in Vegas. I couldn’t go up and down the stairs and dance and do all this stuff. I would never, never have the energy, mental clarity or enthusiasm for the life I have now.”