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HOW WE BEAT OUR JUNK FOOD DEMONS!

‘I LOST WEIGHT & SAVED $11,500 ON TAKEAWAY!’

Zarshua Mack, 31

Scoffing her third kebab of the week, Brisbane mum-of-two Zarshua Mack knew that at 123kg she was slowly eating herself to an early death – and spending a small fortune on junk food.

“We were mortified by the amount wasted on food,” she says. “I was an emotional eater who would eat if I was sad or happy, and it would always be junk such as a kebab with fries or Thai green curry with snacks.”

Zarshua’s bad eating habit began to spiral out of control when she lived in the WA mining town of Karratha with husband Martin, 32. She had given up work to

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