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The LIFE Diet Challenge
Two teams squared off in Joy's LIFE Diet Challenge on the Today show. Watch their video, read their blogs, and check out their remarkable before-and-after photos!
Late last year, Joy invited
Today viewers to sign up for "Joy's LIFE Diet Challenge," an on-the-air diet and exercise challenge to see who could lose the most weight in just three short weeks. The first two teams — five Motivated Moms and five Fit Friends — ate no special food and simply followed the principles of
Joy's LIFE Diet. After three weeks, the results were amazing!
About the Challengers
The Fit Friends team was headed up by Maria and Basil Konstantinidis, who own a salon and spa in Tappan, New York. They were joined by three of their friends and salon customers: Marjory Bianco Griffin, Emily Dugan McCarthy, and Ludger "Daout" Celestin. The challenging team, the Motivated Moms, don't have a lot of time for themselves with 14 kids among them, but they are committed to losing weight and were willing to put in the time and effort to do it. Wendie Seguljic, Judy Belkin, Naomi Saxe, Rhonda Kupin, and Julie Hartman all learned that following a healthier lifestyle is a good thing for everyone in the family, so it was time well spent!
Both the Fit Friends and Motivated Moms team members kept ongoing blogs where they revealed behind-the-scenes stories of following the LIFE Diet and working their way through the
Today show challenge —
check them out!Meet the Winners!
Fit Friends won the Diet Challenge, shedding a combined 77 pounds in just three weeks! Both teams are really winners, losing more than 125 pounds total.
Fit Friends = 77 pounds
Motivated Moms = 48 pounds
Joy also picked her MVPs for each team: Judy was named MVP of the Motivated Moms team (she lost 15 pounds in the three weeks of the challenge) and Basil was named MVP of the Fit Friends team (he lost 20 pounds in three weeks). Congratulations to both teams!
Get the recipes for both teams' dinner menus: