One of the strongest relational bonds is a close and loving connection between a mother and her daughter. However, it isn’t every day that they share a successful, long-term weight loss journey. But 70-year-old Christine Ward and her 47-year-old daughter, Kari Mattingly, both worked hard to shed pounds and achieve personal health goals leading both to share a unique success story.
This all began in 2017 when Christine initially discovered Sparkle Wellness when the company’s owner, Jacynta Harb, started a health program at her church. From there, she quickly started the program and followed the diet. Despite losing weight, Christine struggled to keep her progress when going back to her previous eating habits.
“I treated it like a typical diet. I’d watch what I ate for a period of time, get the weight off, and go back to living life diet free. I lost some weight, dropped Sparkle, and gained it all back,” Christine admitted. “I eventually went back to Sparkle and realized it is not a diet, but a lifestyle to adopt for the rest of my life.”
After applying Sparkle’s weight loss routine to her daily life for the long term, she has become more aware of food labels while abstaining from things like soft drinks and processed foods. After “dropping the diet mentality”, she changed her view toward food, incorporated more fruits and vegetables, and tracked the food she ate each day.
In 2020, she began virtually training with Jacynta each week and adopting an exercise routine that fits her lifestyle. Christine can proudly say that she has lost 27 pounds and achieved her personal goal the following year. Being a family woman, she finds it easier to spend time with her grandchildren.
In February 2022, her daughter decided to follow in those same foot steps. Suffering from a few autoim mune diseases, working and moving was increasingly difficult for her. It was then she noticed it was time to make a change.
“I started working with Jacynta because my mother was so enthusiastic about Sparkle and had great results,” Kari said. “I felt like my food choices and medications were making me sicker, so I went into this journey choosing to control the things I can control and changing my mindset about the things I can’t.”
While completely cutting out sugary beverages like soda or sweet tea and avoiding gluten, Kari became more aware of what she was putting into her body. As a full-time middle school teacher, it remained a challenge to manage her disease symptoms and control what she ate. From there, she created an intentional plan that included her husband doing the grocery shopping before she prepped her meals for the week. It was then that she started regularly performing cardio exercises such as hiking and walking. In just eight months since she started, Kari lost 45 pounds by October.
For more information on how you can get started with Sparkle Wellness to start seeing results, visit www.Sparkleanewyou.com or email sparkleanewyou@gmail.com.
