Both my wife and I have been in the Xooma business for a couple years. And while we’ve used some of Xooma’s products and lost some weight, we never really tried hard to lose weight.

In November, we joined Xooma’s “Cleanse Your Life” 30-Day Challenge, with Crystal Andrus and her daily coaching program. We took pictures of ourselves before we began – back, side and front – so we could see our progress. In the past we’ve always felt like we had a difficult time when it came to losing weight. Even during this challenge, while we lost weight we didn’t lose as much as we thought. But here’s the exciting discovery we made.

In sizing, we both lost about three inches around the belly, but we gained inches other places. We realized we were building lean muscle! In total, I lost 14 pounds and my wife Melinda lost 15 pounds.

We bought the full package that included the MetaboWize System and other products. We took the MetaboWize Protein Fiber Shake, the AM Formula, the PM Formula and Assimilator. We always drank 4 bottles of water (Xooma’s 20-ounce bottles) with 2 sachets a day, FocusUP, and sometimes we used Nature’s Body Cleanse. We drank two shakes a day, plus three meals. And we didn’t even start exercising until 15 days into the 30-day program. (We got a treadmill and began walking 20 minutes every day.)

For a while Melinda got nauseated and didn’t know why. Once she started taking Assimilator not only with her meals but with the shake, it made a big difference and she felt great again. We found out that when you get older, it can sometimes be hard to metabolize high amounts of protein, like what’s in the shakes. It instantly made a difference for her.I’m also grateful for feeling as good as I do now. I was fighting a Staph infection for a long time, that I almost died from while in the hospital. Once I was home, I was on five major pain killers. My Staph infection is now gone and I’m off all of the pain killers. Not only do I feel better, I think that Xooma’s products have really helped detox my system from all this medication.

Thank you Xooma! We already felt great on Xooma’s products, but doing the MetaboWize challenge, we’ve lost weight and feel even better now.

Joe and Melinda