USANA RESET: Cody Blair 140 Pounds Later

Editor’s Note: A version of the following post will appear in the upcoming USANA magazine. Check back on Friday for another RESET success story.

By Dave Baker

Cody Blair still gets called names.

Whether those names are better is debatable, but the names certainly are different. They come from a different place, for a different reason.

“Now they call me anorexic,” the 22-year-old from Las Cruces, New Mexico said.

And those people are joking, of course. It wasn’t an eating disorder that transformed the Cody Blair of 2008 into the Cody Blair of today — healthy, fit, and missing 140 pounds.* It was a change in lifestyle and an introduction to USANA’s Nutrimeal™ shakes — and later, the rest of the RESET program—that has people commenting on his new, slimmer, healthier physique.

The names Cody used to be called were very different. He remembered going to Pennsylvania for college and hearing insults about his weight hurled at him on a consistent basis. These insults cut deep, diving Cody into depression. For a month, he stopped eating regularly.

Then his mom introduced him to USANA’s shakes. The selling point for Cody was the way the shakes made him feel fuller for longer. He started having a shake at noon and another before 7 p.m. This allowed him to start losing some weight. Pretty soon he was giving up junk food and parking further away from his destination so he could get exercise walking to and from his car. Other people started noticing the results.

“I didn’t know it until I got home from Pennsylvania, but my clothes didn’t fit,” Cody said. “My mom said, ‘Your pants are too loose.’”

The weight loss has continued for Cody. Just this summer he won a RESET contest for those in his mom’s USANA organization. His final total after those two months: 43 pounds. For this impressive accomplishment, he won $500 — most of which has gone toward buying new clothes that actually fit.

“It’s an awesome feeling, except it’s expensive,” he said.

Money and a new wardrobe aren’t the only reward Cody’s weight loss has earned him.

“To be able to be told by people that you are their inspiration, to help somebody is a bigger benefit,” he said. “I know that when I got my smile and pride back, it made the world seem so brand new, one day I hope to help as many people as I can, so that they can feel what I feel.”

During this year’s International Convention, Cody spent a lot his time in the store staring at the wall of the USANA Foods display — the wall adorned with his picture. He started getting recognized.

“People were happy to see a real person,” he said. “Someone that’s not on TV, that’s not Photoshopped or anything.” To help other people realize that weight loss is possible for normal people, Cody said he’s thinking about starting a blog.

For now, he is planning on starting a workout regimen so he can start building some more muscle.

“I want them to call me muscle head,” Cody said. It seems like that’s a name he could live with.

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*Results not typical. The typical weight loss is 4.5 pounds in 5 days.