Not long after giving birth to her daughter in 2013, Betsy Ayala, 34, a marketing manager from Houston, discovered that her husband had started hooking up with one of her coworkers. To make matters worse, she discovered the affair via messages between her co-worker and her husband in which the two called Ayala a “fat f—k,” among other things. (Start working towards your weight-loss goals with Women’s Health’s Look Better Naked DVD.)
“I found out through some messages I read on his Facebook where they were calling me a cow…and just trashing me, and my whole world fell apart,” Ayala, who weighed 262 pounds at the time, told The Daily Mail. “He would always tell me I looked fine or would try to get me eat junk all the time, which is why I was so devastated when I read those messages because it was almost like he enabled me or wanted me to stay that way.”
But Ayala vowed not to let the infidelity destroy her. “I decided that this wouldn’t define me and I was going to change for me and for my daughter,” she said.
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So she started doing Zumba with her sister three days a week, then progressed to running and weight lifting at the gym six times a week, as well as eating a high-protein diet. Now she’s down to 159 pounds and looks awesome.
“I’m happier, I’m confident, and most of all, I’m positive,” she said to The Daily Mail.