"We live in a beautiful 4,000-square-foot home with an indoor swimming pool-along with a lifestyle we always dreamed about!"

"I'll never forget that long, dark night in 1992. Not sleeping, I went outside to sit alone in my car at 2 a.m. so no one would see me crying," says Ellie F..

"I hated myself for being unable to stop a lifelong struggle between extreme weight gain and abusing my body with diet pills," she admits. "We owed $15,000 in credit-card debt, and we were broke because I couldn't work anymore!"

"I sat there that night and prayed for help," Ellie remembers. Two days later she found an Herbalife flyer on her car windshield. "I knew in my heart it was from an angel. When I learned about the quality of Herbalife products, I borrowed from my mother and my last credit card."

"My story of losing weight in a healthy way became my calling card as an Herbalife Distributor."

Ellie began her climb to the President's Team by wearing bright colored T-shirts printed with the words "I lost 122 pounds!" in shiny black letters on front and back, "so people can see me coming and going!"

"About $20,000 of my $30,000 monthly income is from retail sales alone."

"To this day, I wear one of the printed shirts everywhere I go," says Ellie. "Anyone I meet in the market, the car wash or the movies gets a smile and a ‘how are you?' I always bring Herbalife into the conversation, give them my card, get their number and offer free samples." Ellie, who made it to President's Team in 1998, says she's made nearly $1.5 million from Herbalife since she started. "My first Herbalife check was only $52," she says, "but it was a blessing at the time. We've come a long way from our old, broken-down house!"

"We live in a beautiful 4,000-square-foot home with an indoor swimming pool-along with a lifestyle we always dreamed about!"